The Armenians
- Art, Culture and Religion

By Nira & Michael Stone; price €10.00

 

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 important collection of Armenian illuminated manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, together with a wide range of contextual 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.

The 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.