Book contents
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- One Worlds of Byzantium
- I Patterns, Paradigms, Scholarship
- II Images, Objects, Archaeology
- III Languages, Confessions, Empire
- Thirteen Byzantine Syriac
- Fourteen Greek Identity in the Sinai
- Fifteen Patriarchs, Caliphs, Monks, Scribes, and the Byzantinization of Jerusalem’s Liturgy
- Sixteen Byzantine Judaism in Early Islamic Palestine
- Seventeen Ethiopia
- Eighteen Armenia and Byzantium
- Nineteen Byzantine Georgia/Georgian Byzantium
- Twenty Conclusion
- Index
- References
Eighteen - Armenia and Byzantium
Simultaneously at the Center and on the Periphery
from III - Languages, Confessions, Empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2024
Book contents
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Worlds of Byzantium
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- One Worlds of Byzantium
- I Patterns, Paradigms, Scholarship
- II Images, Objects, Archaeology
- III Languages, Confessions, Empire
- Thirteen Byzantine Syriac
- Fourteen Greek Identity in the Sinai
- Fifteen Patriarchs, Caliphs, Monks, Scribes, and the Byzantinization of Jerusalem’s Liturgy
- Sixteen Byzantine Judaism in Early Islamic Palestine
- Seventeen Ethiopia
- Eighteen Armenia and Byzantium
- Nineteen Byzantine Georgia/Georgian Byzantium
- Twenty Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
By the late fifth century, Armenian writers had developed a local historiography including the idea of righteous kingship linked to and assisted by the new institution of the Christian episcopacy.This essay considers the Letter of Macarius and the royal establishment of Christianity from the perspective of several early Armenian historians.
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- Worlds of ByzantiumReligion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East, pp. 590 - 611Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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