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Title

The Armenian church of Famagusta and the complexity of Cypriot heritage : prayers long silent / Michael J.K. Walsh, editor.

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Walsh, Michael J. K., 1968-
• Universität Bern. Trans-Mediterranean Studies Research Center.
• Universität Bern. Institut für Kunstgeschichte.
• Universität Bern. Institute of Advanced Study in Humanities.
• Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in an Unrecognised State (2015 : University of Bern)

Description

xxiii, 369 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

This book explores seven centuries of changing fortunes for Cyprus through the Famagusta region and examines the Eastern Mediterranean world through the lens of the Armenian Church as a ?constant?. An examination of the society through art, architecture, archives, and ?hard sciences? escorts the reader from the era of the crusades, through the rise and fall of empires, to the political stasis of the present day. From the wealth and influence of the French Lusignans, via the artistry and military ingenuity of Venetian renaissance, followed by the silence of three centuries of Ottoman rule then incorporation into British Empire, the book examines seven centuries of change in the Eastern Mediterranean and on the island of Cyprus. Recently, as late as the 1970s, the Armenian Church even became home for displaced villagers during the inter-ethnic problems that plagued the post-independence era and led in turn to the Turkish intervention of 1974, after which it became a military storage facility and eventually fell into abandonment. Through an analysis of this society, this book represents a first history into the Armenian community from the 14th century to present and a probing analysis into the art and architecture it left behind.

Series Statement

Mediterranean perspectives

Uniform Title

Mediterranean perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subjects

• Church buildings
• History
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Cyprus > Famagusta
• Armenian church buildings > Cyprus > Famagusta > History > Congresses
• Church buildings > Cyprus > Famagusta > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "This volume of essays is largely the outcome of the conference Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in an Unrecognised State : The Armenian Church, Famagusta hosted by the Trans-Mediterranean Studies Research Center, Institute of Art History, and in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Study in Humanities at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in January 8, 2015."--Page xi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword: Famagusta and the World Monuments Watch: responding to a call for action -- Introduction: The Armenian Church Project: heritage welfare in an unrecognized state / Michael J.K. Walsh -- Famagusta: a lifeline for the Kingdom of Cilician Armenia / Nicholas Coureas -- The Armenian monastic complex of St. Mary, Famagusta / Dickran Kouymjian -- The painted program of the Armenian Church in light of recent discoveries / Michele Baccui -- On the interpretation of the crosses carved on the external walls of the Armenian Church in Famagusta / Gohar Grigoryan -- The achitecture of the Armenian Church and convent / Thomas kaffenberger -- The Armenian Church of Famagusta: some testimonies (late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries) / Lucie Bonato -- Endangered cultural heritage in unrecognized states / Alessandro Chechi -- Armenians and the Christian Society of Famagusta: Evidence from spatial analysis / Tomasz Borowski -- Ground penetrating radar and mapping the monastery complex / Francisco M. Fernandes -- In-situ investigation and stability analysis of the Armenian Church in Famagusta / Andrés Burgos Braga, Paulo B. Lourenço, Nuno Mendes, and João M. Pereira -- Conserving the fourteenth-century wall paintings of the Armenian Church in Famagusta / Werner Schmid -- Scientific examinations of the Armenian Church wall paintings in Famagusta / Rocco Mazzeo, Giorgia Sciutto, Irene Bonacini, and Silvia Prati -- Teaching the heritage of "others" and making it "ours": the power of cultural heritage education / Gül Inanç and Julie H. Liew -- Emerging computer technologies for cultural heritage: the Armenian Church, Famagusta / Dan Frodsham and Duncan Rowland -- The application of virtual reality technology to heritage conservation in Famagusta's Armenian Church / Yuan Yi and Ender Jiang Shutao -- Toward a complexity framework for heritage futures: Famagusta, its Armenian Church and SHIFT / Andrea Nanetti and Siew Ann Cheong -- Afterword / Sharon Evelyn Little -- Appendix 1: Laser Imaging in the Armenian Church / Bora Sayin and Banu Sayin.

ISBN

• 9783319485010 (hbk.)
• 3319485016
• 9783319486027 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783319485027 (online) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2017937886
• 9783319485010

OCLC

• ocn985667267
• 985667267
• SCSB-8878687

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library