Armenia and Byzantium without Borders

Emilio Bonfiglio (DPhil in Oriental Studies, Oxford 2011) is Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg and member of the Steering Committee of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes. His research focuses on the History of Christianity in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Byzantium in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Armenian Studies, and the edition and reception of John Chrysostom in Byzantium and the Christian Orient. His most recent publications have dealt with the reception of the Corpus Chrysostomicum in Armenian and Arabic.Claudia Rapp is Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna and Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has led several international research projects and published extensively on the cultural, social, and religious history of Late Antiquity and Byzantium. Among her most recent publications are the co-edited volumes Microstructures and Mobility in the Byzantine World (2023) and Mobility and Migration in Byzantium. A Sourcebook (2023).

• ForewordAbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction—Armeno-Byzantine Studies in the 21st Century: Between Tradition and Turning PointsEmilio BonfiglioPart 1 Mobility of Texts and Literary Exchanges2 Armenian Translations from Greek Texts or the Inscription of the Armenian Particularism in the Byzantine CommonwealthBernard Coulie3 The Armenian Version of the Τέχνη γραμματική: An Uncomfortable Compromise in Language and LinguisticsRobin Meyer4 A Funeral Lament for Sparapet Vahram Pahlawuni: Myth Folklore, Epic and Remembrance in Grigor Pahlawuni Magistros’ WorkTheo Maarten van Lint5 ‘The hand that once wrote …’: The Journey of a Colophon Formula from Greek into ArmenianEmmanuel van ElverdinghePart 2 Mobility of People and Objects, Interactions in Material Culture6 ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā al-Armanī and the ‘Armenian Connection’ between Bosporus, Tigris, and Nile in the Mid 9th CenturyJohannes Preiser-Kapeller7 King Vasil’s Holy Sign of WarDavid ZakarianPart 3 Liturgical Transfers and Religious Confrontations8 Feasting the Lord’s Transfiguration in Armenian, Syriac, and Byzantine Traditions: The Travels of a Liturgical Feast from the Holy LandMark Roosien9 Old Issues in the New Regime: The Revival of Religious Controversies Between Byzantines and Armenians after the Fall of the Bagratid KingdomKaren HamadaPart 3 Shifting Borders10 Representations of Armenia(s) and the Armenians in Late Antiquity: Theory and Praxis in the Writings of John ChrysostomEmilio Bonfiglio11 The Orthodox Monastery of the Virgin of Arayi: Evidence for Byzantine Ecclesiastical Policy in Greater Armenia (1045–1064)Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt and Gert Boersema12 Where to Search for Byzantine Arkion?Werner SeibtIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral Index