Prochain webinaire : Première modernité et mobilité : villes portuaires et imprimeurs à travers la diaspora

origins of Armenian nationalism.
Early Modernity and Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian
printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, when the first
Armenian printed codex appeared in Venice, to the end of the early modern period in
1800, Armenian presses operated in nineteen locations across the Armenian diaspora.
Linking far-flung locations in Amsterdam, Livorno, Marseille, Saint Petersburg, and
Astrakhan to New Julfa, Madras, and Calcutta, Armenian presses published a thousand

Drawing on extensive archival research, Sebouh David Aslanian explores why certain books
were published at certain times, how books were sold across the diaspora, who read them,
and how the printed word helped fashion a new collective identity for early modern
Armenians. In examining the Armenian print tradition Aslanian tells a larger story about the
making of the diaspora itself. Arguing that “confessionalism” and the hardening of
boundaries between the Armenian and Roman churches was the “driving engine” of
Armenian book history, Aslanian makes a revisionist contribution to the early modern
origins of Armenian nationalism.

Early Modernity and Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian
printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, when the first
Armenian printed codex appeared in Venice, to the end of the early modern period in
1800, Armenian presses operated in nineteen locations across the Armenian diaspora.
Linking far-flung locations in Amsterdam, Livorno, Marseille, Saint Petersburg, and
Astrakhan to New Julfa, Madras, and Calcutta, Armenian presses published a thousand
editions with more than half a million printed volumes in Armenian script.
EARLY MODERNITY AND MOBILITY:
PORT CITIES AND PRINTERS ACROSS
THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA, 1512-1800

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source : Eskijian Museum