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Petra Košťálová (Prag/Praha): Shaping Ukrainian Historiography Through Armenian Chronicles

 

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Vortrag


Abstract:

The paper will be focused on Armenian Diaspora chronicles dating from 16th and 17th century and originating from the territory of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita). The discourse analysis will be dealing especially with chronicles and colophons from Lviv (Simeon Lehatsi), chronicles from Kamianets Podilskyi (Oksent and John Kamenatsi) and Kaffa (Khatchatur Ghrimetsi) etc. Above mentioned sources could provide a scope for understanding the turbulent period of Thirty Years’ War, Ottoman campaigns against Rzeczpospolita as well as later Swedish interventions in Central-European regions, known as “Second Nothern Wars”. Together with “minor” chronicles written by Simeon Lehatsi/Simeon of Poland (from Zamość and Lviv perspective), war memories of Armenian priests from Kamianets or Crimean Kaffa unfold the complicated story of this specific area and contribute further to the emergence of symbolic space of Armenian Diaspora. Moreover, these chronicles correspond to so-called Great Flight period (perceived within the frame of Ottoman history) and the period of “Little Ice Age” in Eurasian perspective, highlighting the permeability of borders (or the importance of threshold), including some interesting ethnographical aspects and revealing certain codified loci communes.

 

Zur Vortragenden:

Doc. Petra Košťálová, Ph.D., graduated from Armenian Studies and Ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Charles University, Prague; she holds Ph.D. degrees in Ethnology (Charles University) and History (Université Paul Valéry). She actually works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethnology, Central European and Balkan Studies at Charles University. Her research deals with ethnicity, stereotypes and collective memory, focusing on the Caucasus region (especially on Armenian history, literature and culture) and the region of Central Europe and Balkans. She is the author of following publications: Simeon of Poland, Travels 1608–1618: Travel Accounts and Chronicles of the Armenian Pilgrim (2016), Armenian Chronicles from Lake Van. 16th – 18th centuries (2011), Stereotypical Images and Ethnic Myths: Cultural Identity of Armenia (2012), L’image de l’Autre dans les chroniques arméniennes (2010, in French) and Songs of the Land of Nairi: Folk and Troubadour Songs of Medieval Armenia (2006); co-author of the book The Calamity of Christians: Extermination of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire in 1914–1923 (2017) and History of Armenia (2023).

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