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The Church of the Holy Cross of Ałt‘amar

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This book is dedicated to an outstanding architectural monument of medieval Armenia – the church of the Holy Cross, built in the tenth century on the island of Ałt‘amar on Lake Van, and a UNESCO wo...
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  • 22 August 2019
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This book is dedicated to an outstanding architectural monument of medieval Armenia – the church of the Holy Cross, built in the tenth century on the island of Ałt‘amar on Lake Van, and a UNESCO world heritage site. This jewel of architecture has been researched mainly from an art historical perspective. The current multi-author volume offers diverse studies aimed at placing the construction of the church in its proper historical, political, religious, and spiritual context. It explores the intellectual climate in the Kingdom of Vaspurakan during the reign of its founder, King Gagik Arcruni, the Kingdom’s relations with Byzantium and the Abbasids, analyzes local historiography, biblical exegesis, hagiography, veneration of the True Cross, and royal ideology. Novel interpretations of architectural features and sculptural decorations close the volume.
Le livre est consacré à l'un des plus importants monuments architecturaux de l'Arménie médiévale, l'église de la Sainte-Croix construite au Xe siècle sur l'île d’Ałt‘amar sur le lac de Van. Elle est inscrite sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. Ce joyau de l'architecture arménienne a été étudié principalement dans la perspective de l’histoire de l’art. Le présent volume multi-auteurs propose une diversité d’approches qui placent la construction de cette église dans le contexte historique, politique, religieux et spirituel. Il étudie l’ambiance intellectuelle du Royaume du Vaspurakan durant le règne de son fondateur, le roi Gagik Arcruni, les relations du Royaume avec Byzance et les Abbassides, il analyse l’historiographie locale, l’exégèse biblique, l’hagiographie, le culte de la Vraie Croix et l’idéologie royale. De nouvelles interprétations des particularités architecturales et des décors sculptés achèvent le volume.
Contributors are Krikor Bélédian, Jean-Claude Cheynet, Patrick Donabédian, Bernard Flusin, Tim Greenwood, Gohar Grigoryan, Armen Kazaryan, Davit Kertmenjyan, Sergio La Porta, Jean-Pierre Mahé, Zaroui Pogossian, Robert Thomson (†), Alison Vacca, Edda Vardanyan.
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Price: $192.00
Pages: 460
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Armenian Texts and Studies
Publication Date: 22 August 2019
ISBN: 9789004400382
Format: Hardcover
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"The volume offers a selection of essays where an outstandingly important monument of Medieval Armenian art is investigated in its wider cultural and historical context from a definitely multidisciplinary viewpoint. (...) it enables its readers to get a wide-range introduction not only to the relevance of the church of the Holy Cross in Ałtamar for Armenian arts and culture, but also to the specific contribution of the hardly known Kingdom of Vaspurakan to world history." - Michele BACCI, Universität Freiburg/Schweiz, in: Hortus Artium Medievalium 26 (2020)
Zaroui Pogossian, Ph.D. (2005), is a research associate at the Ruhr-Universität-Bochum (Germany). She has published on numerous aspects of medieval Armenian culture and religion, such as the Armenian Church and the Crusades, monasticism, the role of women and pious foundations, apocalyptic literature and royal ideology.

Edda Vardanyan, Ph.D (2001), is a research fellow at the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts of the Armenian Republic (Matenadaran of Erevan) and, since 2002, an associated scholar at the Centre d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance, Orient & Méditerranée UMR 8167 (Paris). Her research is dedicated to Armenian medieval art.