CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Ajapahyan, Mariam |
|---|---|
| Title | Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in Private Ownership: Preservation, Protection, and Accessibility Issues |
| Summary | The thesis concentrates on the problems of protection, preservation and accessibility of medieval Armenian manuscripts in private ownership. Showing the main aspects that protection laws do not cover it is aimed to give alternative recommendations that could address those and solve the problems that legal instruments do not. The social, cultural and historical importance of this manuscripts requires a special approach towards the preservation and accessibility. It is aimed to show that the manuscripts in private ownership should be preserved in the integrity of the tangible and intangible counterparts of the heritage they represent. Very much attention should be given to their role in the lives of the communities where they are kept and the society’s perception of those manuscripts. Consequently, the main idea for the privately owned manuscripts is to keep the manuscripts in their social and cultural setting and find ways to make them accessible for researchers and other interested parties thus making them also objects of knowledge. By preserving their community and social value together with the visual and physical form it is aimed to bring them into a new research area which will be dedicated to the study and presentation of these manuscripts in many academic domains. This way the manuscripts will continue to be a part of the existing tradition formulated around them as both family heritage, and social and cultural values being at the same time recognized as a part of Armenian heritage that should be better studied and presented. |
| Supervisor | Laszlovszky, József; Perczel, István |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/ajapahyan_mariam.pdf |
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