384 Pages
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Routledge
384 Pages
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Routledge
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The articles here aim to develop and expand Professor Garsoïan’s earlier research on the bilateral influences on Early-Christian Armenia, between Byzantium and the Sasanians. On the one hand, they continue her examination of Armenia’s essentially Iranian society and institutions in the 4th-7th centuries; on the other, they are directed to an investigation of its autocephalous Church. This... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The enigmatic figure of bishop Å ahak of Manazkert; Acace de Mélitène et la présence de dyophysites en Arménie au début du Ve siècle; Some preliminary precisions on the separation of the Armenian and imperial Churches: I. The presence of ’Armenian’ bishops at the first five oecumenical councils; Quelques précisions préliminaires sur le schisme entre les Églises byzantine et arménienne au sujet du concile de Chalcédoine: II. La date et les circonstances de la rupture; Quelques précisions préliminaires sur le schisme entre les Églises byzantine et arménienne au sujet du concile de Chalcédoine: III. Les évêchés méridionaux limitrophes de la Mésopotamie; Armenia Megale kai eparkhia Mesopotamias; The early-mediaeval Armenian city: an alien element; T’agaworanist kaleankc ’ kam ’banak arkc uni: les residences royales des Arsacides arméniens; Notes préliminaires sur l’anthroponymie arménienne du Moyen Age; L’art iranien comme témoin de l’armement arménien sous les Arsacides; The two voices of Armenian mediaeval historiography: the Iranian index; Reality and myth in Armenian history; The problem of Armenian integration into the Byzantine empire; Index of names.
Biography
Nina G. Garsoïan, Emerita, Columbia University, USA
'Garsoian has accomplished a thorough reinterpretation of Armenia's early history... no student of eastern Christianity can afford to ignore her intricate portrait of early Armenian Christianity.' Religious Studies Review
