New article about Chalcedonian Armenians in eleventh-century Byzantium! Open Access: austriaca.at?arp=0x00416251
Lewis Read
@lewread.bsky.social
Post-Doctoral Researcher I IMAFO, Austrian Academy of Sciences I Armenologist and Historian of Medieval Eastern Christian Book Cultures
GenAut talks | Andy Hilkens and Lewis Read, “A Constantinopolitan Synaxarion for Armenians: The Tawanac’uyc’ of Yovsep’.” •Christian Liturgy and Memory Practices from Medieval Iberia to Central Asia• Vienna, 5-6 March. @andyhilkens.bsky.social @lewread.bsky.social www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran...
Conference Announcement! Sanctity and Ritual Remembrance: Comparative Approaches to Christian Liturgical Memory from Medieval Iberia to Central Asia ÖAW, Vienna | 5–6 March 2026
A rainy day in Venice well spent working on the Armenian version of the Life of John Chrysostom, translated by the Catholicos Grigor II Vkayaser in 1101CE! 🤓
In case you missed it, here is the recording of last week's paper by Lewis Read (University of Vienna) shorturl.at/5oG6c
TeTra | Lewis Read "Accessing the place of memory: digital tools for the study of Armenian colophon"
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The next TeTra paper, on Armenian manuscript colophons, will be delivered next Thursday 14 August by Lewis Read (University of Vienna)! If you are interested in attending and are not yet on the mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link!
📣Join us for the RELEVEN Conference: "Re-evaluating the Eleventh Century: Movements, Connections, and Perspectives" 🗓️ 3–5 Sept 2025 |📍 University of Vienna (Hybrid) Exploring new digital tools and historical insights from the 11th century. 🗒️More info + program: releven.univie.ac.at/news/detaila...
Closing Conference of the Releven Project
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2nd International Armenological Congress, 9-12 July, 2025 🤩🇦🇲
New article alert! We invite you to explore a text composed in the northern reaches of the Caliphate in 744: the Armenian martyrology of Vahan of Gołtʻn. This article includes a translation and intro that analyzes the text’s construction of the Umayyad world and Armenian experiences within it
Last week @tla.bsky.social and @lewread.bsky.social participated in the 16th general conference of the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, discussing digital approaches to medieval Armenian source material.
It was a pleasure to be in Yerevan 🇦🇲 last week to share a working prototype for a new digital corpus of medieval Armenian colophons developed in collaboration with the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. More to come! 📜
