Abstract Seventeenth-century Armenian historiographic accounts, chronicles and diaries demonstrate an increasing prevalence of the first-person narrative over the ‘neutral’ third person and authorial narratives. This provides significant insights into the daily interpersonal, intra-communal and inter-communal relations between different religious and confessional groups within the Ottoman empire. Relying on unedited and understudied written sources, I identified several hermeneutical tools that may be useful to assess the complex dynamics of identity construction that marked the relations of Armenian individuals and groups with other co-existing confessional and religious local communities within and on the northern and eastern fringes of the Ottoman Empire in the first half of the seventeenth century.
Benedetta Contin (Mon,) studied this question.