Global before 'globalization': Europe, Armenia and the Silk Road

Based on my book 'East-West Artistic Transfer through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road: Sharing St. Peter's' (Routledge 2022), this lecture talks about Armenia as a cultural and transfer region in the Middle Ages and early modern period. The region between Cilicia and Tabriz was hotly contested for centuries, as it was one of the most important international transit areas for long-distance trade and a center of daily global exchange of ideas, goods and religions.Armenia comes into focus here in order to understand the peculiarities of this unique region, which together with the Near and Middle East and East Africa is part of the Christian Orient. The Christians living there and their cultural monuments have been in great danger for decades. Peter and the little known 'compounds' of the Christians of the East and Orient, Hungary, Ethiopia and Armenia (both the oldest churches in the world) and then paves the way to the arts (Momik, Giotto, Minas, Domenico Veneziano, Dürer), trade, missions and fabrics, inscriptions and symbols that traveled in both directions.|. Dr. Esche-Ramshorn, Christiane. The course leader is an art historian, currently living in Cambridge, U.K. She has published on the Italian Renaissance and on topics in her current field of research, the cultural transfer between Europe and the western section of the Silk Road, especially Armenia. She is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and has been a researcher at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max Planck Institute), in Rome.

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