Church and Culture in Early Medieval Armenia (Variorum Collected Studies Series)

The articles here aim to develop and expand Professor Garsoà ̄an’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 maintained relations with the Antiochene Christological school it shared with the Church of Persia longer than has been generally admitted, but simultaneously brought about an ideological transformation through which Christianity came to define the Armenian identity in the national tradition. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Publisher's Note I: The Enigmatic Figure of Bishop Šahak of Manazkert II: Acace de Mélitène et la Présence de Dyophysites en Arménie au Début du Ve Siècle III: Some Preliminary Precisions on the Separation of the Armenian and Imperial Churches: I. The Presence of 'Armenian’ Bishops at the First Five Oecumenical Councils IV: 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 V: 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 VI: Aρμενία Mεγάη Καί Eπαρχία Mεσοποταμίας VII: The Early-Mediaeval Armenian City: An Alien Element VIII: “ ‘T[sup(c)]Agaworanist Kayeank[sup(c)] ’Kam ‘Banak Ark[sup(c)]uni': Les Residences Royales des Arsacides Arméniens" IX: Notes Préliminaries Sur L'Anthroponymie Arménienne du Moyen Age X: L’art Iranien Comme Témoin de L’Armement Arménien Sous Les Arsacides XI: The Two Voices of Armenian Mediaeval Historiography: The Iranian Index XII: Reality and Myth in Armenian History XIII: The Problem of Armenian Integration into the Byzantine Empire Index of Names 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 maintained relations with the Antiochene Christological school it shared with the Church of Persia longer than has been generally admitted, but simultaneously brought about an ideological transformation through which Christianity came to define the Armenian identity in the national tradition The articles here aim to develop and expand Professor Garsoian's earlier research on the bilateral influences on early-Christian Armenia, between Byzantium and the Sasanians. They continue the examination of the essentially Iranian 4th-7th century society and investigate its autocephalous Church.