About The Book

Co-published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the Department of Classical, Byzantine and Medieval Studies of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, this book is a collection of multilingual and multidisciplinary scholarly papers presented at an international conference entitled Armenian-Ukrainian Historical Contacts and held in Lviv in May of 2008.

Among the twelve papers included in this volume is Iaroslav Dashkevych's Ukrainian-language essay on the Armenian self-government in Kyiv in the 15th to 17th centuries, Iryna Haiuk's Ukrainian-language article on the history of Armenian culture in Ukraine, Myron Kapral's English-language paper on Armenian and Ruthenian Elders in Lviv in the late medieval and early modern period, Mik>ayelm AËak>elian's English-language study of the 16th and 17th-century Armenian illuminated manuscripts in Galicia, Podilia, and Bukovyna, and Anush Ter-Minasian's Russian-language essay on the architecture of the Armenian cathedral in Lviv.

The book Armenian-Ukrainian Historical Contacts was co-edited by Kevork Bardakjian (USA), Frank E. Sysyn (Canada), and Andrii Yasinovskyi (Ukraine).

About The Authors

Frank Sysyn

Frank E. Sysyn is Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. He is a co-editor of

Andrii Yasinovskyi

Graduate of the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Andrii Yasinovskyi is director of the Ukrainian Catholic University Press.

Kevork Bardakjian

Kevork Bardakjian is the Marie Manoogian Professor of Armenian language and literature at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan.