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The Letter of Love and Concord
A Revised Diplomatic Edition with Historical and Textual Comments and English Translation
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Zara Pogossian
Languages:
English, Multiple languages
Published/Copyright:
2010
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About this book
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 / Editor information
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.
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 20, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9789004192102
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
476
eBook ISBN:
9789004192102
Keywords for this book
Cilician Armenian Kingdom; medieval apocrypha; Crusades; Armenian ecclesiology; Armenian royal ideology
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in the history of the Cilician Armenian Kingdom, its royal and ecclesiololgical ideology, legends on King Trdat, Gregory the Illuminator, Constantine the Great and Pope Sylvester, and the history of the Armenians and the Crusades.
