The Armenians

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The Armenians: Art, Culture and Religion tells the story of the Armenian people, their language and culture, from the time when the Arsacid Armenian dynasty ended in 428 to the Ottoman genocides of 1915 and the creation of the Armenian Diaspora.
. The authors have drawn upon the internationally importa collection of Armenian illuminated manuscripts in the Chester S Beatty Library, Dublin, together with a wide range of contextual
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images of key monuments and sites from Armenian history, engravings and contemporary religious ceremonies to study the Armenians, their art and literature. These are intrinsically linked to Armenia's religious and liturgical traditions, which have developed independently from both Catholic and Orthodox churches since the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon in 451, and which today are more in doctrinal accord with the Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean and Indian Oriental Orthodox Churches.
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Fülszöveg

The Armenians: Art, Culture and Religion tells the story of the Armenian people, their language and culture, from the time when the Arsacid Armenian dynasty ended in 428 to the Ottoman genocides of 1915 and the creation of the Armenian Diaspora.
. The authors have drawn upon the internationally importa collection of Armenian illuminated manuscripts in the Chester S Beatty Library, Dublin, together with a wide range of contextual
rtf Vair oMit eifiic Ai-mpnian Viictr\rv pnar
images of key monuments and sites from Armenian history, engravings and contemporary religious ceremonies to study the Armenians, their art and literature. These are intrinsically linked to Armenia's religious and liturgical traditions, which have developed independently from both Catholic and Orthodox churches since the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon in 451, and which today are more in doctrinal accord with the Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean and Indian Oriental Orthodox Churches.
Is'lilThe text is supported by five appendices, which include a glossary of terms and names, a study of the Armenian alphabet and language and an historical timeline, and by special text boxes, which study particular events in Armenian history.
Dr. Nira Stone is Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recent publications include The Kaffa Lives af the Desert Fathers: A Study in Armenian Manuscript Illumination (1997). Professor Michael Stone is Professor of Armenian Studies and Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religious Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recent publications include The Armenian in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, with R.R. Ervine and Nira Stone (eds), Hebrew University Armenian Studies, 4 (2002).
Front cover illustration: Christ with the Cross and Gabriel's Trumpet (detail of Fig. 57) by Mesrop of Khizan, Isfahan, 1615. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Arm 576.2, with Armenian Merchants at the 17th Century Amsterdam Stock Exchange (detail of Fig. 26), M 31-26 Rokin-Beurs H. de Keyser. Courtesy of Amsterdam City Archives.
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