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Examines how Armenia has been represented and "imagined" in texts from two periods in its history: the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century.Today most people who think of Armenia associate it with the genocide of 1915, the struggle Armenians waged after the First World War to reclaim their ancient lands in Anatolia, a struggle complicated by centuries of subordination to the Ottomans, by persistent Russian efforts to exert influence and claim territory, and by Western indecision manifested in plentiful words but few deeds. This book, however, tells a different story: one of geo-political importance, strength, struggle, and diminishment, narrated in texts largely created by and for Europeans and Americans. It asks how the West imagined, described, and presented Armenia over time in historical and fictional accounts during two periods of close Armenian-Western contact. The first period spans the twelfth to fourteenth centuries; it examines a variety of texts, including the travel narratives of Marco Polo and John Mandeville, William of Tyre's Deeds Done Beyond the Sea, and romances such as King of Tars, Bevis of Hampton and Le Roman de Mélusine. The second period is rooted in events during the nineteenth-century American missionary movement. It engages with a variety of popular and widely disseminated texts - books, pamphlets, newspapers - written and published in the United States from 1830 to the mid-1890s, detailing the encounters between the missionaries and the Armenians, frequently in the voices of women.
CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College.
PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Medieval Writings1. Armenia and the Tartars, a Chronicle Account2. Describing the World, Placing Armenia3. Determined: Stories of Armenian Women in the Crusader States4. Women, Power and Armenia in later Medieval Anglo-French Romance: King of Tars, Bevis of Hampton, Alexander and Le Roman de Mélusine5. Endgame: the Last King of Armenia in the Courts of England and FrancePart II: Missionary Writings6. American Evangelicals Saving Armenia7. Women Missionaries: Transporting Education, "Home", and Hope to Armenia8. Two Sides of the Story: Pushing Back on the Missionary Master NarrativeCodaBibliographyIndex
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