Digitized German editions of the 18th - 19th centuries as non-academic sources of Armenology: history reflected in postmodernity

Besarion Meskhi,Haykaz Hovhannisyan,Olga Fedotova,Vladimir Latun,Svetlana Ponomareva,D Rudoy,A Olshevskaya,N Ugrekhelidze

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202127311015

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The article discusses the problems of using archival materials and old editions in order to familiarize themselves with the history and culture of individual countries. Using the example of the practice of postmodern technology for digitizing non-academic historical documents by German authors, it is shown that they constitute a significant resource for expanding knowledge in the field of cultural studies, educational history, historical geography due to the presence of a text array and visual range. Visual imagery includes a wide range of artifacts, including national and military clothing, national symbols, historical geopolitical maps. Digitized editions of the 18th and 19th centuries, devoted to the problems of the history and culture of the Armenian people, being descriptive material, make a great contribution to the formation of a new scientific direction in Armenology. They allow you to get acquainted with authentic historical documents containing information about the geopolitical, historical, social, cultural, philosophical and pedagogical problems of the Caucasus in the 18th century. and XIX centuries. The article shows that subsequent scientific research on the problems of the history of the peoples of the Caucasus did not become widely known due to the lack of available digitalized historical sources containing the works of both Armenian and foreign authors.

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The modern world rises to a new stage of its development, characterized by the global availability of information and the ability to overcome borders between countries, to get acquainted with their culture, mentality, traditions
The first stage of the study was devoted to determining the sequence of the appearance in the Russian and German scientific discourse of documents of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as materials and information that make it possible to determine the informational array of future Armenology as an independent research area of geopolitical, historical, social, cultural, philosophical and pedagogical problems of Caucasian studies
Historiographic thought at that time developed in two main directions: the creation of historiographic concepts and the strengthening of the source study base. Proceeding from this practical historiographic necessity, interest in the study of the history of the peoples newly annexed to Russia, including the history of the Armenian people, has increased in scientific circles

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The modern world rises to a new stage of its development, characterized by the global availability of information and the ability to overcome borders between countries, to get acquainted with their culture, mentality, traditions. The transition to new information formats in the form of Internet technologies creates unique prerequisites for getting acquainted with the historical past of peoples, its value orientations, cultural artifacts and mental foundations. It updates the attention of researchers to the first attempts to systematically represent the cultural heritage of other peoples in pedagogical discourse [1]. The topics of the history of Armenia are the object of Armenian studies, the interest in the problems of which was observed among scientists from many countries [5, 6]. The works of German and Russian researchers play a special role in the study of the history of the Armenian people and statehood

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