A rainy day in Venice well spent working on the Armenian version of the Life of John Chrysostom, translated by the Catholicos Grigor II Vkayaser in 1101CE! 🤓
10.09.2025 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Closing Conference of the Releven Project
📣Join us for the RELEVEN Conference:
"Re-evaluating the Eleventh Century: Movements, Connections, and Perspectives"
🗓️ 3–5 Sept 2025 |📍 University of Vienna (Hybrid)
Exploring new digital tools and historical insights from the 11th century.
🗒️More info + program: releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
06.08.2025 10:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 3
map of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Armenia including Gołtʻn along the Araxes
New article alert!
We invite you to explore a text composed in the northern reaches of the Caliphate in 744: the Armenian martyrology of Vahan of Gołtʻn. This article includes a translation and intro that analyzes the text’s construction of the Umayyad world and Armenian experiences within it
15.01.2025 18:55 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 3
It was a pleasure to be in Yerevan 🇦🇲 last week to share a working prototype for a new digital corpus of medieval Armenian colophons developed in collaboration with the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. More to come! 📜
02.12.2024 14:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Post-doc at @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social & @coe-eurasia.bsky.social | Byzantine Studies | Greek | Church Slavonic | Liturgy & ritual | Biblical criticism
Discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials, make interdisciplinary connections, build a WordPress website, and increase the impact of your work by sharing it in KCWorks.
PhD researcher | Armenia–Iran in Late Antiquity | Religion & Identity | Lover of languages, myths, and cultural memory
Syriac, late antiquity, manuscripts, sheep and tea.
Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Book History | Manuscript Studies | Provenance | MENA Intellectual History | SciCom | #FirstGen
https://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wiss_ma/peter-tarras/index.html
PhD candidate at Universität Hamburg | CSMC.
Manuscripts | Book Culture | Book History in late Ottoman period.
Art historian, PhD candidate @VU Amsterdam
Medieval Syriac manuscripts, inscriptions, materiality, digital projects
Editor, Middle East @TheDigitalOrientalist
At the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures and its Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts, we conduct cross-disciplinary research on handwritten artefacts from all periods and regions of the world.
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
FWF START Award 2024 at Uni Vienna 2024: GenAut.univie.ac.at | Co-host of @tetraseminar.bsky.social TeTra.univie.ac.at | Co-editor RBECS.org | Bits and bobs, manuscript studies, and the reception of EC literature.
Postdoc @redmix.bsky.social at the University of Turin • Global history, mobility & mixedness of Iranians in the Red Sea • Editor for Persian, Turkic and Biblical Studies @digitalorientalist.bsky.social
Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
Post-Doc IMBOD ERC (Leiden) | Historian of Early Islam and the Medieval Middle East
Old world. New vision.
https://linktr.ee/isawnyu
Archaeology, history, Sasanians, Carthaginians and some of the bits in between
https://www.evemacdonald.net
Lecturer in Late Medieval History at King’s College London working on Rus, Byzantium, and the Mongols. @drvukovich on X for more content.
CHW monitors and documents endangered and damaged cultural heritage using high-resolution satellite imagery. Led by archaeologists @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and Purdue University.
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American working on the Caucasus and Turkey, focusing on Armenian and Circassian issues. Yaratılışta bilgim olmadan var olan ne varsa rızam olmaksızın var.
IR, International (Dis)Order, Eurasian Politics. Lecturer at @uniexeter.bsky.social. Onetime Liberal. Enemy of Pigeonholes. X refugee. Personal views, Repost ≠ 'Like'. Cosmopolitan mutt: roots in 🇦🇲🇬🇷🇩🇪🇱🇧🇧🇪🇬🇧.
Official account for the Institute for Iranian Studies (Iranistik) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Website: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/
Seminar hosted by Giorgia Nicosia, Marion Pragt (@worldlyscribe.bsky.social), Andy Hilkens (@andyhilkens.bsky.social), and Dan Batovici (@danbatovici.bsky.social). Website: TeTra.univie.ac.at.
