Review: Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia -- by Kate Franklin

Abstract

Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia. By Kate Franklin. N.p.: University of California Press, 2021. Paperback: £30.00. Pp. 204. ISBN: 9780520380929.

In the underrepresented field of the premodern history of the Caucasus, Kate Franklin’s book Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia is an exciting new project that builds on scarce source materials and employs innovative approaches to studying the region. By describing archaeological findings, creating maps and embedding these studies into a broad historical narrative, the author paints a picture of the imaginative worlds that travellers’ accounts and other texts created and what larger role local Armenian hosts played in this context.