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Uniform Title Letter of love and concord. English
Title The letter of love and concord : a revised diplomatic edition with historical and textual comments and English translation / by Zaroui Pogossian
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 475 pages)
Series The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500 ; v. 88
Medieval Mediterranean ; 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
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 histor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text of the poem in Armenian and English
Print version record
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 Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337 fast
Gregory, the Illuminator, Saint, approximately 240-approximately 332 fast
Sylvester II, Pope, approximately 945-1003 fast
Tiridates III, King of Armenia, approximately 250-approximately 330 fast
Subject Armenians -- Turkey -- Cilicia -- History -- Sources
Crusades -- Sources
HISTORY -- General.
Armenians
Crusades
SUBJECT Cilicia -- History -- Armenian Kingdom, 1080-1375 -- Sources
Subject Asia -- Cilicia
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Pogossian, Zaroui.
ISBN 9789004191891
9004191895
9789004192102
9004192107