@misc{Osipian_Aleksandr_Between_2017,
 author={Osipian, Aleksandr},
 volume={116},
 editor={Hartzell, James. Ed.},
 editor={Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences},
 editor={Polish National Historical Committee},
 copyright={Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license},
 address={Warszawa},
 journal={Acta Poloniae Historica},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2017},
 publisher={Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk},
 language={eng},
 abstract={This paper analyses the attitudes toward the Armenian Diaspora in early modern Polish society through a close examination of the issues viewed as burning by the contemporaries. The paper is focused on three such burning topics – a) the ‘price revolution’ and, in connection therewith, mercantilism; b) the growing level of consumption (“redundant luxury” – zbytek nierozmyślny) and the fears of social disorder aroused by it; and c) the Ottoman threat (real and imagined). The paper argues that there were a variety of discourses on the Armenians because the discourses were influenced by the different answers to the challenging issues presented by the representatives of various social estates – noblemen (szlachta), clergymen (duchowieństwo) and burghers (mieszczaństwo). Therefore, the attitudes to the Monophysite Armenians in Polish society were mostly shaped not as part of the Counter-Reformation agenda (as was the case with respect to Protestants and the GreekOrthodox), but rather within the framework of economic (mercantilism), social (consumption), and psychological/political (fears of the Ottoman threat) issues.},
 type={Text},
 title={Between Mercantilism, Oriental Luxury and the Ottoman Threat: Discourses on the Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Kingdom of Poland},
 URL={http://rcin.org.pl/Content/68569/PDF/WA303_85773_A296-APH-R-116_Osipian.pdf},
 keywords={Poland - relations - Ottoman, Empire, Ottoman, Empire - relations - Poland, Poland - foreign trade - 1500-1800, Armenians - Poland - history},
}