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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043

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Topic:medieval Armenian art

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Die „bärtigen Jungfrauen". Das Gleichnis von den zehn Jungfrauen (Mt 25,1-13) in Armenien zwischen Exegese und Kunst (The "Bearded Virgins": The Parable of the Ten Virgins in Armenia between Exegesis and Art)

Pane, Riccardo, 2025

Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies, Vol. 4 (2025), pp. 27–46; DOI 10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2025/01/002 (Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice)

Traces the Armenian exegesis of the parable of the ten virgins from the fifth to the fourteenth century, identifying its Greek sources while highlighting what is distinctively Armenian in it. Pane then turns to two unusual works in which the virgins are depicted as men: a bas-relief at Hovhannavank monastery and a miniature by the copyist Yovsian. Beyond the liturgical and eschatological readings proposed in recent scholarship, he argues that the explanation for these 'bearded virgins' lies in the continuous Armenian exegetical tradition, which reinterpreted the parable with reference to the spirituality of male monastic communities.

Armenian church history biblical exegesis medieval Armenian art iconography monasticism

German

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Ritratti di mercanti armeni nelle miniature dei Vangeli medievali (secoli IX-XIV) (Portraits of Armenian Merchants in the Miniatures of Medieval Gospels, 9th-14th Centuries)

Zanone, Rachele, 2023

Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies, Vol. 2 (2023), pp. 161–190; DOI 10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2023/01/008 (Edizioni Ca' Foscari, Venice)

Presents research from the ERC project 'Armenia Entangled: Connectivity and Cultural Encounters in Medieval Eurasia' at the University of Florence. Zanone's topic is the depiction of Armenian merchants in the miniatures of medieval manuscripts, placed in a broader Eurasian context. A central strand is the analysis of the clothing worn by these merchants, studied iconographically and compared with Byzantine and Arab illuminations treating the same subject. The article sketches the ongoing research by presenting a set of Gospel manuscripts containing merchant portraits.

medieval Armenian art manuscript illumination Armenian merchants iconography medieval Eurasia

Italian

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