The Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage: Prayers Long Silent

ISBN-13: 9783319485010 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 369 str.

Michael J. K. Walsh

Opis

This book explores seven centuries of change in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean world through the rise and fall of Famagusta's medieval Armenian Church. The Armenian church was a home for displaced villagers during the post-independence era, became a military storage facility post-1974 and eventually fell into abandonment once again.

Spis treści

Foreword: Famagusta and the World Monuments Watch: Responding to a Call for Action

1. Introduction: The Armenian Church Project: World Heritage in an Unrecognised State

Part I: Interpretation and Analysis

2. Famagusta: A Lifeline for the Kingdom of Cilician Armenia

3. The Armenian Monastic Complex of St. Mary, Famagusta

4. The Medieval murals of Famagusta’s Armenian Church in Light of Recent Restorations: Art-historical Remarks

5. On the Interpretation of the Crosses Carved on the External Walls of the Armenian Church in Famagusta

6. The Architecture of the Armenian Church and Convent

7. Duthoit’s Famagusta and his Sketch of the Armenian Church

Part II: Conservation, Education and Diagnostics

8. Endangered Cultural Heritage in an Unrecognized State: Voices from Famagusta

9. Spatial Analysis of the Armenian Church in Medieval Famagusta

10. Ground Penetrating Radar and Mapping the Monastery Complex

11. In Situ Investigation and Stability Analysis of the Armenian Church in Famagusta

12. Laser Imaging in the Armenian Church

13. The Conservation of the 14th Century Murals in the Armenian Church

14. Scientific Examination of the Armenian Church Wall Paintings, Famagusta

15. Teaching Cultural Heritage of ‘Others’ and Making it ‘Ours’: The Power and Controversy of Heritage Education – the Armenian Church of Famagusta

16. Emerging Computer Technologies for Cultural Heritage: The Armenian Church, Famagusta

Part III: Complexity and Heritage: Future Research Perspectives

17. Towards a Complexity Framework for Heritage Futures: The Case of Famagusta, its Armenian Church and SHIFT

18. Afterword: From Delhi to Famagusta and Beyond

O autorze

Michael J. K. Walsh, who led this project, has edited and co-edited several books on Famagusta, including Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta (2012), Crusader to Venetian Famagusta (2014) and City of Empires: Ottoman and British Famagusta (2015). He is Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Blurb

This book explores seven centuries of changing fortunes for Cyprus through the Famagusta region and examines the Eastern Mediterranean world through the lens of the Armenian Church as a ‘constant’. An examination of the society through art, architecture, archives, and ‘hard sciences’ escorts the reader from the era of the crusades, through the rise and fall of empires, to the political stasis of the present day. From the wealth and influence of the French Lusignans, via the artistry and military ingenuity of Venetian renaissance, followed by the silence of three centuries of Ottoman rule then incorporation into British Empire, the book examines seven centuries of change in the Eastern Mediterranean and on the island of Cyprus. Recently, as late as the 1970s, the Armenian Church even became home for displaced villagers during the inter-ethnic problems that plagued the post-independence era and led in turn to the Turkish intervention of 1974, after which it became a military storage facility and eventually fell into abandonment. Through an analysis of this society, this book represents a first history into the Armenian community from the 14th century to present and a probing analysis into the art and architecture it left behind.