Armenia and Byzantium without Borders: Mobility, Interactions, Responses: Armenian Texts and Studies, cartea 7

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).

Byzantium is more and more recognized as a vibrant culture in dialogue with neighbouring regions, political entities, and peoples. Where better to look for this kind of dynamism than in the interactions between the Byzantines and the Armenians? Warfare and diplomacy are only one part ofthat story. The more enduring part consists of contact and mutual influence brokered by individuals who were conversant in both cultures and languages. The articles in this volume feature fresh work by younger and established scholars that illustrate the varieties of interaction in the fields of literature, material culture, and religion.
Contributors are: Gert Boersema, Emilio Bonfiglio, Bernard Coulie, Karen Hamada, Robin Meyer, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Claudia Rapp, Mark Roosien, Werner Seibt, Emmanuel Van Elverdinghe, Theo Maarten van Lint, Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, and David Zakarian.

Foreword
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction—Armeno-Byzantine Studies in the 21st Century: Between Tradition and Turning Points
Emilio Bonfiglio

Part 1 Mobility of Texts and Literary Exchanges

2 Armenian Translations from Greek Texts or the Inscription of the Armenian Particularism in the Byzantine Commonwealth
Bernard Coulie

3 The Armenian Version of the Τέχνη γραμματική: An Uncomfortable Compromise in Language and Linguistics
Robin Meyer

4 A Funeral Lament for Sparapet Vahram Pahlawuni: Myth Folklore, Epic and Remembrance in Grigor Pahlawuni Magistros’ Work
Theo Maarten van Lint

5 ‘The hand that once wrote …’: The Journey of a Colophon Formula from Greek into Armenian
Emmanuel van Elverdinghe

Part 2 Mobility of People and Objects, Interactions in Material Culture

6 ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā al-Armanī and the ‘Armenian Connection’ between Bosporus, Tigris, and Nile in the Mid 9th Century
Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

7 King Vasil’s Holy Sign of War
David Zakarian

Part 3 Liturgical Transfers and Religious Confrontations

8 Feasting the Lord’s Transfiguration in Armenian, Syriac, and Byzantine Traditions: The Travels of a Liturgical Feast from the Holy Land
Mark Roosien

9 Old Issues in the New Regime: The Revival of Religious Controversies Between Byzantines and Armenians after the Fall of the Bagratid Kingdom
Karen Hamada

Part 3 Shifting Borders

10 Representations of Armenia(s) and the Armenians in Late Antiquity: Theory and Praxis in the Writings of John Chrysostom
Emilio Bonfiglio

11 The Orthodox Monastery of the Virgin of Arayi: Evidence for Byzantine Ecclesiastical Policy in Greater Armenia (1045–1064)
Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt and Gert Boersema

12 Where to Search for Byzantine Arkion?
Werner Seibt

Index of Manuscripts
General Index