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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

By
Robin Darling Young
Edited by
Elizabeth S. Bolman ,
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson  and
Jack Tannous
Elizabeth S. Bolman
Affiliation:
Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma
Jack Tannous
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
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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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ArmeniaJerusalemSasanianMacariusGregoryAgat’angelosBuzandaranLazar Parpets’iConstantineBuzandaran Agat’angelos
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Worlds of Byzantium
Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East
 , pp. 590 - 611
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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