David Zakarian

Position

Associate Faculty Member

Faculty / College Address

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies / Pembroke College, Oxford

Email

david.zakarian@ames.ox.ac.uk

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8744-5798

Research Interests

Representation of women in early Armenian literature
Development of Christian discourse on women in Late Antiquity
Catholic missionary activities in the Middle Ages and the Armenian Church
Representation of women in Christianity and Zoroastrianism
Role of women in spreading religious beliefs
Medieval Armenian colophons
Christian–Muslim relations in medieval colophons and literature
Impact of Muslim rule on women’s position in medieval Christian societies

British Academy Postdoctoral Research Project (Jan 2017 – Dec 2019)

Writing History from Below: Christian–Muslim Interactions in Armenian Colophons during the Long Fifteenth Century (1375–1501)

Selected Publications

Books

Women, Too, Were Blessed: The Portrayal of Women in Early Christian Armenian Texts, Armenian Texts and Studies Series, Volume: 4, Brill 2021 (https://brill.com/view/title/57649).
Lived Reality in Medieval Anatolia and the Caucasus through the Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, Forthcoming in the British Academy Monograph Series, Oxford University Press, 2023.

Edited Volume

F. Alpi, I. Tinti, R. Meyer, and D. Zakarian (eds.). 2022. Armenia through the Lens of Time: Multidisciplinary Studies in Honour of Theo Maarten van Lint. Leiden: Brill, 2022 (Open Access: https://brill.com/edcollbook-oa/title/62945)

Book Chapters

'King Vasil’s Holy Sign of War', in E. Bonfiglio and C. Rapp (eds.), Armenia and Byzantium without Borders. Leiden: Brill, 2023, pp. 194–212. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004679313_008
'Violence against Women in Tʽovma Mecopʽecʽi’s History of Tamerlane and His Descendants (15th c.)', in F. Alpi, I. Tinti, R. Meyer, and D. Zakarian (eds.), Armenia through the Lens of Time. Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp. 145–157. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004527607_008
‘Remembering the Living and the Dead in the Bodleian MS Marsh 438 (I-III)’, in Bahl, Christopher and Stefan Hanß (eds.), Scribal Practice – Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400-1800. London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2022, pp. 241-258. doi: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90154-7_11
‘The Timurids and Their Extra-Dynastic Affairs: Armenians and Georgians’, forthcoming in Binbaş, İlker Evrim and John E. Woods (eds.), The Timurid Dynasty: A Handbook, Brill’s Handbooks on Muslim Empires and Dynasties series (Brill, 2022).
‘Une vie à cheval : les déplacements du roi dans l’Arménie arsacide,’ Le gouvernement en déplacement : Pouvoir et mobilité de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Sylvain Destephen, Josiane Barbier et François Chausson (éds.), Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2019, pp. 75-86.
‘L’autorité et le pouvoir de la reine en Arménie arsacide’, in Augusta, Regina, Basilissa. La souveraine de l'Antiquité tardive au Moyen Âge. F. Chausson et S. Destephen (éd.), Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2018, pp. 23-36.

Articles

'Violence in the Monastery: An Episode in the Relations between the Catholic and Apostolic Armenian Clergy in the Fourteenth Century', Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 73 (1-2), 2021, pp. 79-113.
‘P‘aṙanjem and Her Husbands: A New Hypothesis on the Marriages of the Armenian Queen’, Studia Iranica 47(2018), pp. 75-88.
‘Syneisaktism in Early Armenian Christianity’, Le Muséon 130 (1-2), 2017, pp. 123-138.
‘The ‘Epic’ Representation of Armenian Women of the Fourth Century’, Revue des Études Arméniennes 35 (2013), pp. 1-28.
‘Women on the Throne and the Symbolic Attributes of Authority’, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 22 (2013), pp. 23-38.

Podcasts / Talks

Women's History through the Colophons of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts

25 February, 2022: University of California, Los Angeles (Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies, the Promise Armenian Institute, Center for Near Eastern Studies)

Women, Too, Were Blessed: The Portrayal of Women in Early Christian Armenian Texts

11 May, 2021: Society for Armenian Studies Podcast

Inscriptions of Armenian Xač‘k‘ars

6 December, 2020: Khachkars as Worldwide Witnesses of Armenian History, Spirituality, and Art, (Calouste Gulbenkian Chair in Armenian Studies, University of Oxford; National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR))