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Armenia
Theo Marten Van Lint
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Description for Armenia
Paperback. With the help of the Bodleian Libraries' magnificent collection of Armenian manuscripts and early printed books, this volume tells the story of the region through the medium of its cultural output. Num Pages: 276 pages, 180 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUR; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 289 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1462.
Set like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BCE under King Tigranes the Great, Armenia was later incorporated first by the Sasanian and then the Byzantine Empires. Armenian art, literature, religion and material culture have reinterpreted elements of a wide variety of cultures. Spanning over two and a half millennia, the history of Armenia and the Armenian people is a series of riveting tales, from its first mention under the Achaemenid King Darius I to the independence of the Republic of Armenia from the ... Read more
Set like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BCE under King Tigranes the Great, Armenia was later incorporated first by the Sasanian and then the Byzantine Empires. Armenian art, literature, religion and material culture have reinterpreted elements of a wide variety of cultures. Spanning over two and a half millennia, the history of Armenia and the Armenian people is a series of riveting tales, from its first mention under the Achaemenid King Darius I to the independence of the Republic of Armenia from the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1461g
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851244409
SKU
V9781851244409
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About Theo Marten Van Lint
Theo Maarten van Lint is Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at the University of Oxford. Robin Meyer is a curator in the Department of Special Collections at the Bodleian Libraries.
Reviews for Armenia
`A true eulogy to this venerable and rich tradition'
Joseph Verheyden
The Journal of Eastern Christian Studies
Joseph Verheyden
The Journal of Eastern Christian Studies