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Monuments and Identities in the Caucasus
Karabagh, Nakhichevan and Azerbaijan in Contemporary Geopolitical Conflict
Series: - Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, Volume: 31
This is the first multidisciplinary volume whose focus is on the barely accessible highlands between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and their invaluable artistic heritage. Numerous ancient and mediaeval monuments of Artsakh/Karabagh and Nakhichevan find themselves in the crucible of a strife involving mutually exclusive national accounts. They are gravely endangered today by the politics of cultural destruction endorsed by the modern State of Azerbaijan.
This volume contains seventeen contributions by renowned scholars from eight nations, rare photographic documentation and a detailed inventory of all the monuments discussed. Part 1 explores the historical geography of these lands and their architecture. Part 2 analyses the development of Azerbaijani nationalism against the background of the centuries-long geopolitical contest between Russia and Turkey. Part 3 documents the loss of monuments and examines their destruction in the light of international law governing the protection of cultural heritage.
This volume contains seventeen contributions by renowned scholars from eight nations, rare photographic documentation and a detailed inventory of all the monuments discussed. Part 1 explores the historical geography of these lands and their architecture. Part 2 analyses the development of Azerbaijani nationalism against the background of the centuries-long geopolitical contest between Russia and Turkey. Part 3 documents the loss of monuments and examines their destruction in the light of international law governing the protection of cultural heritage.
Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev, PhD (2002) and Habilitation (2009) at ÉPHÉ, Sorbonne, is lecturer in Oriental Languages at Sofia University. Author of 2 monographs and numerous articles on Armenia, he has also edited
Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Leuven 2022).
Haroutioun Khatchadourian is an independent researcher interested in the protection of historical heritage. He has studied the History of Armenian Arts at INALCO, Paris, and is co-author of two books,
L’art des khatchkars. Les pierres à croix arméniennes d’Ispahan et de Jérusalem (Paris 2014 and Yerevan 2019) and
Localités et biens cultuels arméniens dans la Turquie ottomane. Un patrimoine en destruction (Paris 2016).
All those interested in the history and the geopolitics of the Caucasus, the history of nationalism, the history of mediaeval Christian arts, and anyone concerned with the protection of historical monuments.