Armenia through the Lens of Time

Federico Alpi, Ph.D. (2015), University of Pisa, is a research fellow in Armenian Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and a member of FSCIRE, Bologna. He coordinates the volume on the councils of the Armenian Church for the Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta (Corpus Christianorum series, Brepols, in preparation).      Robin Meyer, D.Phil. (2017), University of Oxford, is Assistant Professor of Historical Linguistics at the University of Lausanne. He is co-author and co-editor of Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture(Bodleian Library 2015) and has published several articles and chapters on Armenian, Greek, and Iranian historical linguistics. Irene Tinti, Ph.D. (2011), University of Pisa, is a research fellow at the same University, and Treasurer of the Association internationale des études arméniennes (AIEA). She is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume on Armenian Linguistics in the Brill series Handbooks of Oriental Studies and has authored “Essere” e “divenire” nel Timeo greco e armeno (PUP 2012) and several other contributions on Greek and Armenian texts. David Zakarian, D. Phil. (2015), University of Oxford, is an Associate of the Faculty of Oriental Studies there. He is the author of Women, Too, Were Blessed: The Portrayal of Women in Early Christian Armenian Texts (Brill 2021) and of several articles and chapters on the colophons of mediaeval Armenian manuscripts and the representation of women in late antique and mediaeval Armenian texts.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsNote to the ReaderAcademic Biography and Bibliography: Theo Maarten van Lint. A Tetragonal ScholarEmilio BonfiglioArmenia through the Lens of TimeA 360° ViewFederico Alpi, Robin Meyer, Irene Tinti and David ZakarianPart 1 Art History1 The Iconography of the Visions of Isaiah and EzekielThomas Mathews2 “Open My Eyes So That I May See Wonderful Things” [Ps 118 (119):18]Some Art Historical Remarks about the Consecration of a Painted ChurchChristina Maranci3 A Jacobean Shell for Šahuk, “Servant of God”Gohar Grigoryan SavaryPart 2 History4 From Alexandria to DvinNon-Chalcedonian Christians in the Empire of Khusrau IIPhil Booth5 The Funerary Oration of Barseł VardapetTara L. Andrews and Anahit Safaryan6 Violence against Women in Tʽovma Mecopʽecʽi’s History of Tamerlane and his Descendants (15th c.)David ZakarianPart 3 Linguistics and Philology7 De la Grèce à l’Arménie, et d’Homère à la BibleTranspositions culturelles dans la version arménienne de la grammaire de Denys de ThraceCharles de Lamberterie8 The Cauldron of the TitansQuotations from Clement of Alexandria in the Letters of Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni (990–1058)Federico Alpi9 On the Indirect Tradition and Circulation of the Ancient Armenian Platonic TranslationsIrene Tinti10 Per la storia di un manoscritto armeno in Inghilterra(Londra, Wellcome Library, ms. arm. 14)Anna Sirinian11 Multilingualism in PoetryHow to Translate Sayatʽ-Nova?Robin MeyerPart 4 Literature12 Come e perché scrivere un’autobiografia in Armenia, nel medioevo e più tardiAlessandro Orengo13 In vino consolatioA 14th-c. Armenian Dispute Poem on WineSergio La Porta14 “My City Which Is of Bronze”The City of Bronze Encroaching on the Alexander RomanceAlex MacFarlane15 Between Gusan and AšułYohannēs Xlatʽecʽi and the Porous Borders Negotiated by the Medieval Armenian BardS. Peter Cowe16 “La danza” di Siamantʽō fra letteratura e arti contemporaneeDa Ararat di Atom Egoyan a Defixiones, Will and Testament di Diamanda GalásValentina CalzolariPart 5 Religious Studies17 Ephrem and the Persian Martyrs in the Armenian SynaxarionSebastian Brock18 “Descent of the Only-Begotten Son”Contextualising the Vision of Saint GregoryNazenie Garibian19 Jacob and the Man at the Ford of JabbokA Biblical Subject in the Vine Scroll Frieze of the Church of the Holy Cross of Ałtʽamar (10th c.)Michael E. Stone and Edda Vardanyan20 Acrostics in Armenian Ecclesiastical PoetryArmenuhi Drost-AbgarjanHomage21 Gemara and MemoryJames RussellIndex of ManuscriptsIndex of PlacesIndex of PeopleIndex of Subjects