Descripción del proyecto
Un análisis más cercano de la zona CAM entre el siglo IX y XIV
Muchos historiadores se han centrado en la Edad Media global y han pasado por alto la importancia de la historia de la Eurasia medieval. Sin embargo, la zona del M (Cáucaso meridional, Anatolia occidental y Mesopotamia septentrional (CAM) ocupaba un lugar destacado entre los siglos IX y XIV, a pesar de que ya no figuraba entre los centros de poder más importantes. El proyecto ArmEn, financiado con fondos europeos, servirá para explicar de qué modo la zona CAM se encontraba en el cruce de la expansión de los imperios eurasiáticos y los movimientos demográficos. Los investigadores analizarán un gran conjunto de fuentes en armenio, árabe, georgiano, griego, persa, siríaco y turco, y explorarán las ubicaciones y los factores de conflicto mediante el rastreo de características compartidas en la producción artística y textual multilingüe de la zona CAM, y las vincularán a la circulación de ideas y conceptos.
Objetivo
ArmEn seeks to establish a new framework for studying the southern Caucasus, eastern Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia (CAM) as a space of cultural entanglements between the 9th to 14th centuries. It argues that this region is key to understanding the history of medieval Eurasia but has so far been completely neglected by the burgeoning field of Global Middle Ages. The CAM was on the crossroads of expanding Eurasian empires and population movements, but was removed from major hubs of power. Poly-centrism; political, ethno-linguistic, and religious heterogeneity; frequently shifting hegemonic hierarchies were key aspects of its, nevertheless, inter-connected landscape. This fluidity and complexity left its mark on the cultural products – textual and material – created in the CAM. ArmEn aims to trace shared features in the multi-lingual textual and artistic production of CAM and correlate them to the circulation of ideas and concepts, as well as to real-life interactions, between multiple groups, identifying the locations and agents of entanglements. The large but under-utilised body of Armenian sources to be explored together with those in Arabic, Georgian, Greek, Persian, Syriac, and Turkish, will illuminate cultural entanglements between Muslim and Christian Arabs, Byzantines, Syriac Christians, Georgians, Caucasian Albanians, Turko-Muslim dynasties, Kurds, Iranians, Western Europeans, and Mongols, that inhabited, conquered, or passed through and produced cultural goods in CAM. Evidence from manuscript illuminations and numismatics will provide a material cultural dimension to the analysis. ArmEn will create a trans-cultural vision of the CAM, bridging area studies into a unifying framework, bringing together various disciplinary approaches (philology, literary criticism, religious studies, art history, numismatics, etc.), to build a narrative synthesis in which the dynamics of cross-cultural entanglements in the CAM emerge in their spatial and temporal dimensions.
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ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
50121 Florence
Italia