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    SACRED OBJECTS FROM THE ARMENIAN CHURCHES OF CONSTANTINOPLE TOPIC OF FRESNO STATE LECTURE

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    Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

    Dove: Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople

    FRESNO-Dr. Ronald Marchese will discuss his recent research in
    Constantinople/Istanbul with a talk on "Treasures of Faith: Sacred
    Objects from the Armenian Churches of Constantinople and What They
    Tell Us About Armenian Society and Culture" at 7:30 p.m. on Monday,
    January 28.

    This Leon S. Peters Foundation Lecture will be held in the University
    Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191, on the Fresno State
    campus and is part of the Armenian Studies Program Spring 2013 Lecture
    Series. The lecture is funded in part by the Associated Students,
    Inc. at Fresno State.

    Dr. Marchese is professor of ancient history and archaeology at
    the University of Minnesota, Duluth and has spent the last several
    years documenting the rich cultural history of the Armenians in
    Constantinople, by studying the works of arts that the Armenians
    produced. He will accompany his talk with slides of some of the
    artwork that he has catalogued.

    Over the course of hundreds of years Armenian society and culture
    developed in Constantinople after the founding of the Armenian
    Patriarchate in the city in 1461. Although a traditional date, it is
    clearly evident that a substantial number of Armenians from eastern
    Anatolia had established themselves in the city long before this date.

    Most went unnoticed in the pages of history due to the fact
    that they were absorbed within Byzantine material and political
    culture. Simply stated they became "Byzantine" in nature. After the
    mid-fifteenth century and especially after the establishment of their
    own patriarchate and "patrik" this "invisibility" disappears.

    Encouraged to immigrate "to the city" (to istan-polis) the Armenian
    population increased substantially as witnessed by the steady growth
    of neighborhoods and churches to match the population increase. By the
    mid-18th city to the mid nineteenth century-1750-1850-approximately
    half of all Armenian churches in the city were founded. Some were
    in close proximity to others in densely concentrated areas near the
    Patriarchate, especially in Kumkapi, Yenikapi, Samataya, and Beyoglu.

    Associated with this increase in population was the rise of an Armenian
    "aristocracy" -the amira class. Many of these individuals financed
    church construction and are well-known in both Ottoman and Patriarchal
    records. The issue here is not who these people were, a powerful group
    of wealthy entrepreneurs, merchants and bankers, who gave clout to
    their group, but rather those who worked hard, accumulated modest
    amounts of wealth and were faithful church goers who participated
    in the affairs of their congregation and neighborhood-the emerging
    "petty bourgeois." Who were they and what they did has barely been
    recorded. It was their contributions to their respective churches
    that is brought to light in his current research and is illustrated
    in this presentation.

    Dr. Marchese received his PhD from New York University and has a
    distinguished career in archaeology, having conducted research at the
    Plataiai Archaeological Excavation in Greece and at Tel Dor in Israel.

    He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters in the field.

    He is an alumnus of California State University, Fresno.

    He is the author, together with Marlene Breu, of Splendor and
    Spectacle: The Armenian Orthodox Church Textile Collections of Istanbul
    (Citlembik Ltd., Istanbul, 2010). He has authored several other books
    on art and weaving.

    The lecture is free and open to the public.

    Parking: Parking rules have changed for the university. Parking is
    available in Lots A or J on campus, only if a free parking pass is
    obtained by using parking code 273305 in any of the campus kiosks.

    For more information on the lecture please contact the Armenian
    Studies Program at 559-278-2669.

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