Lead by the Principal Investigator Zara Pogossian, this project is funded through a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (Grant number 865067). It seeks to establish a new framework for studying the Armenian plateau and the wider area around it stretching from the south of the Caucasus mountain range to Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia (henceforth CAM) as a space of cultural entanglements between the 9th to 14th centuries.
The project is based on the premise that this region is key to understanding the history of medieval Eurasia but has so far been largely 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, like Baghdad, Cairo, Constantinople, or Qara Qorum. Poly-centrism, political, ethno-linguistic, and religious heterogeneity, and frequently shifting hegemonic hierarchies were crucial 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. Exploring this production is at the centre of the project ArmEn.
ERC ArmEn project organizes in Florence a conference that aims to promote a further comprehension of the cultural and trade/economic relations in the CAM, on the spotlight of written and material sources.
Organizers of the conference are the team members Elisa Pruno, Michele Nucciotti, Zaroui Pogossian. Over the two days of the event, some 20 scholars will be present to discuss the themes of the conference, central to the development of the project.
La Prof.ssa Zara Pogossian (PI) presenta il progetto ArmEn in occasione della Notte europea delle Ricercatrici e dei Ricercatori, la manifestazione ideata dalla Commissione Europea con l'obiettivo di diffondere la cultura scientifica al pubblico.