Description du projet
Approfondir nos connaissances sur la région CAM entre le IXe et le XIVe siècle
L’histoire de l’Eurasie médiévale a été quelque peu négligée par les historiens qui travaillent sur le Moyen Âge à l’échelle mondiale. Or, le Caucase du Sud, l’Anatolie orientale et la Mésopotamie du Nord (CAM) ont joué un rôle clé entre le IXe et le XIVe siècle (malgré leur éloignement des principaux centres de pouvoir). Le projet ArmEn, financé par l’UE, permettra de mieux comprendre le rôle de la région CAM, à la croisée des chemins des empires eurasiens en expansion et des mouvements de population. Il examinera un grand nombre de sources arméniennes et d’autres régions, à la fois arabes, géorgiennes, grecques, persanes, syriaques et turques. Il explorera les lieux et les agents des enchevêtrements en retraçant les caractéristiques communes dans la production textuelle et artistique multilingue de la région CAM puis en les mettant en corrélation avec la circulation des idées et des concepts à l’époque.
Objectif
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 GrantInstitution d’accueil
50121 Florence
Italie