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Dr Lusine Margaryan completed Master’s Alf, from Carrick-on-Shannon, has been
degree at the Yerevan State University, an Economic Adviser to govern ments
Armenia, and did her PhD at the Russian and development agencies in Northern
State University for Humanities, Moscow. Europe, Central America, the Mediter -
She spent two years lecturing at the ranean, the Middle East, and South and
Russian Armenian University (Yerevan) West Africa. His time in Syria, Turkey,
and moved to Ireland in "'%*. During Lebanon, Cyprus, Jordan, and Egypt,
"'"'–"" she was involved with compar - triggered a deep interest in the origins
ative research into the History of Early of belief and religion. Looking at early
Christi anity beyond Eastern and Western Irish Christi an ity from a Mediterranean

Borders of Christendom. As a member of per spec tive, he questions estab lished

the project group Cognitive, communica- theories and traces links to ancient Egypt,
tive and semiotic mechanisms of the forma- connecting both Irish monasticism with
tion of historical memory, she is currently the Desert Fathers and the Irish Church
researching the formation of Armenian with the Egyptian Coptic Church.

identity in Early Middle Ages. Discov er ies, including the Faddan More
Psalter (an Egyp tian papyrus found with in
a medi eval book of psalms which was

uncov ered in a Tipperary bog in "''+),
point to a more sub stantial Eastern
Medi ter ranean in.u ence than previously
acknowledged.

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