The letter of love and concord [electronic resource] : a revised diplomatic edition with historical and textual comments and English translation / by Zaroui Pogossian.

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ISBN:

9789004191891

9789004192102

Title:

The letter of love and concord [electronic resource] : a revised diplomatic edition with historical and textual comments and English translation / by Zaroui Pogossian.

Author:

Pogossian, Zaroui.

Uniform Title:

Letter of love and concord. English.

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 475 pages).

Series:

The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500 ; v. 88

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction and Presentation of the Text; 1: The Historical and Religious Situation in Cilician Armenia in the Second Half of the Twelfth and Beginning of the Thirteenth Century; 2: The Textual Environment and the Sources of the Letter of Love and Concord; 3: The Description and the Relationship of Manuscripts, Grammar, Language; Stemmas of Manuscript Relationships; The Letter of Love and Concord (Armenian and English); Appendix A: Misplaced Text-Blocks; Appendix 1: Provinces of the Eastern Roman Empire Listed in TD.

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Personal Subject:

Tiridates III, King of Armenia, approximately 250-approximately 330-Sources.

Gregory, the Illuminator, Saint, approximately 240-approximately 332-Sources.

Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337-Sources.

Sylvester II, Pope, approximately 945-1003-Sources.

Subject Term:

Armenians -- Turkey -- Cilicia -- History -- Sources.

Crusades -- Sources.

Geographic Term:

Cilicia -- History -- Armenian Kingdom, 1080-1375 -- Sources.

Added Author:

Pogossian, Zaroui.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2010

Publication Information:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Summary

The Letter of Love and Concord is a unique source, which allows us a glimpse into the political and religious aspirations of the Armenian Cilician elite at the end of the twelfth century, alluding to its hopes and expectations from the Crusades and the Church of Rome, as well as its uneasy relationship with the Byzantine Empire. The Letter is especially valuable for the wealth of information it contains on the royal ideology nurtured within the highest circles of the ruling Rubenid dynasty. The study provides an analysis of the sources used by its anonymous author, placing them within a historical context. Moreover, this marks the first time that a text based on the study of surviving sixty nine manuscripts along with its English translation has been made available for scholars.

Author Notes

Zaroui Pogossian , Ph.D. (2005) in Medieval Studies, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), teaches at the American University of Rome and the John Cabot University (Rome). She has published on early Armenian Christianity as well as the relationship between the Armenian Church and the Roman Church during the Crusades.