The ArmeniansArt, Culture and Religion
Published by GILES in association with the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Publish Date — December 2007 (UK and USA)
Dimensions — 96 pages, 270 x 205mm (8 x 10 5/8 in.), portrait
Illustrations — 60 colour illustrations
Hardback price — UK12.95/US$24.95
ISBN — 1-904832-37-7
ISBN — 978-1-904832-37-9
Book Details (pdf) — Armenians_ai.pdf
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The first accessible study of the Armenian people and their history as seen through Armenian art, literature, language and religion from the late 5th to the early
20th century
Illustrated with a wide range of contextual images, including leading historic monuments and sites from Armenian history
Features appendices on the Armenian language and alphabet and a timeline
About the Book
This volume takes as its starting point the internationally important collection of Armenian illuminated manuscripts in the collection of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. The authors have selected over 20 of the rarest and most beautiful manuscripts to tell the history of the Armenian people, their art and literature. These are intrinsically linked to Armenia’s religious, ecclesiastical and liturgical traditions, which have developed independently from both Catholic and Orthodox churches since the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon in 451.
Nira and Michael Stone tell the story of the Armenian landscape, people, Armenian Christianity, language and writing, from the time when the Arsacid Armenian dynasty ended in 428 and the first Armenian kingdom was divided into Greater Armenia, to the East, under Iranian rule, and Lesser Armenia, to the West, under the Byzantine Empire, through the cultural renaissance of the New Julfa Armenians during the 17th century, to the Ottoman genocide of 1915 and the creation of the Armenian Diaspora. They draw on a wide range of comparative and contextual material, including 40 colour images of key monuments and historic sites, engravings and contemporary religious ceremonies.
