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This is the third collection of articles by Nina GarsoA-an on Early
Armenian history and civilization. A number of articles included
here continue earlier investigations of Iranian and Byzantine
political and, especially, doctrinal and social influences on
Medieval Armenia, precariously wedged between the two super-powers
of the period, Byzantium and Sasanian Persia. A second theme is the
development of the autocephalous Armenian Church as it freed itself
from foreign pressures and achieved its own dogmatic position.
Last, several studies consider some inadequacies in some recent
historiography and suggest a more promising redirection in our
approach to Armenian history and the formation of its national
identity.
This is the third collection of articles by Nina GarsoA-an on Early
Armenian history and civilization. A number of articles included
here continue earlier investigations of Iranian and Byzantine
political and, especially, doctrinal and social influences on
Medieval Armenia, precariously wedged between the two super-powers
of the period, Byzantium and Sasanian Persia. A second theme is the
development of the autocephalous Armenian Church as it freed itself
from foreign pressures and achieved its own dogmatic position.
Last, several studies consider some inadequacies in some recent
historiography and suggest a more promising redirection in our
approach to Armenian history and the formation of its national
identity.
The articles here aim to develop and expand Professor GarsoA-an's
earlier research on the bilateral influences on Early-Christian
Armenia, between Byzantium and the Sasanians. On the one hand, they
continue her examination of Armenia's essentially Iranian society
and institutions in the 4th-7th centuries; on the other, they are
directed to an investigation of its autocephalous Church. This
maintained relations with the Antiochene Christological school it
shared with the Church of Persia longer than has been generally
admitted, but simultaneously brought about an ideological
transformation through which Christianity came to define the
Armenian identity in the national tradition.
The late fifth-century anonymous Epic Histories, formerly known as
the History of Armenia attributed to another unknown P'awstos
(Faustos) Buzand, form the earliest historical work written in
Armenian. They are the main source for our knowledge of social
structure, beliefs and customs of early Christian Armenia, and
especially of the profound and lasting influence of Zoroastrian
Persia on the recently converted country. This influence is evident
in the very composition of the work, which owes as much to the lost
oral tradition of the Iranian epic as to more familiar Classical
and early Christian models. Hence, it is unmatched for the
reconstruction of the ambivalent world of the Near East in Late
Antiquity at the cross roads between Classical and Iranian
civilizations. Since no scholarly translation of this work into any
Western language has been attempted for more than a century, much
of its contribution has remained beyond the reach of most scholars.
The aim of the present publication is to fill this lacuna by
complementing the translation of the original Armenian text with a
Commentary and Appendices that are intended to serve not only
Armenian scholars but Classicists and Iranians alike.
Cette etude de developpement historique de l'Eglise armenienne
durant la periode pre-islamique des grandes controverses
christologiques s'adresse particulierement a ses relations avec la
Perse sassanide dont l'importance n'a pas ete suffisamment
appreciee jusqu'a present dans les analyses de l'etendue de sa
propre evolution et des circonstances et causes de sa rupture
eventuelle avec les Eglises de Byzance et de Georgie. Cet examen a
ete base en large partie sur les documents officiels contemporains
qui ont ete traduits in extenso dans son appendice (Peeters 1998)
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