Armenia through the lens of time : multidisciplinary studies in honour of Theo Maarten van Lint

"The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. From pilgrimage sites in the far west of Europe to the Persian court; from mystic visions to a gruesome contemporary "dance"; from a mundane poem on wine to staggering religious art: thus far in space and time extends the world of the Armenians. A glimpse of the vast and still largely unexplored threads that connect it to the wider world is offered by the papers assembled here in homage to one of the most versatile contemporary armenologists, Theo Maarten van Lint. This collection offers original insights through a multifaceted lens, showing how much Armenology can offer to Art History, History, Linguistics, Philology, Literature, and Religious Studies. Scholars will find new inspirations and connections, while the general reader will open a window to a world that is just as wide as it is often unseen"-- Provided by publisher ‎Contents ‎Acknowledgments ‎Figures and Tables ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Note to the Reader ‎Academic Biography and Bibliography: Theo Maarten van Lint (Bonfiglio) ‎Armenia through the Lens of Time (Alpi, Meyer, Tinti and Zakarian) ‎Part 1. Art History ‎1. The Iconography of the Visions of Isaiah and Ezekiel (Mathews) ‎2. “Open My Eyes So That I May See Wonderful Things” [Ps 118 (119):18] (Maranci) ‎3. A Jacobean Shell for Šahuk, “Servant of God” (Grigoryan Savary) ‎Part 2. History ‎4. From Alexandria to Dvin (Booth) ‎5. The Funerary Oration of Barseł Vardapet (Andrews and Safaryan) ‎6. Violence against Women in Tʽovma Mecopʽecʽi’s History of Tamerlane and His Descendants (15th c.) (Zakarian) ‎Part 3. Linguistics and Philology ‎7. De la Grèce à l’Arménie, et d’Homère à la Bible (de Lamberterie) ‎8. The Cauldron of the Titans (Alpi) ‎9. On the Indirect Tradition and Circulation of the Ancient Armenian Platonic Translations (Tinti) ‎10. Per la storia di un manoscritto armeno in Inghilterra (Sirinian) ‎11. Multilingualism in Poetry (Meyer) ‎Part 4. Literature ‎12. Come e perché scrivere un’autobiografia in Armenia, nel medioevo e più tardi (Orengo) ‎13. In vino consolatio (La Porta) ‎14. “My City Which Is of Bronze” (MacFarlane) ‎15. Between Gusan and Ašuł (Cowe) ‎16. «La danza» di Siamantʽō fra letteratura e arti contemporanee (Calzolari) ‎Part 5. Religious Studies ‎17. Ephrem and the Persian Martyrs in the Armenian Synaxarion (Brock) ‎18. “Descent of the Only-Begotten Son” (Garibian) ‎19. Jacob and the Man at the Ford of Jabbok (Stone and Vardanyan) ‎20. Acrostics in Armenian Ecclesiastical Poetry (Drost-Abgarjan) ‎Homage ‎21. Gemara and Memory (Russell) ‎Index of Manuscripts ‎Index of Places ‎Index of People ‎Index of Subjects