Buch, Englisch, Band 640, 213 Seiten
Reihe: Corpus Scriptorum Christianoru
ISBN: 978-90-429-2516-8
Verlag: PEETERS PUB
Armenian mediaeval historians, who have concentrated primarily on
political high points, have tended to dismiss the more than four centuries
dividing the two royal epochs of the Arsacids (ending, A.D. 428) and the
Bagratids (inaugurated with the coronation of Ashot I, A.D. 884), as a
'Dark Age'. The intention of the present study, on the contrary, is to
attempt the examination of a portion of the 'Interregnum' (600-750) as a
period of religious synthesis and social renewal, as well as of
intellectual and particularly artistic effervescence. In such an
interpretation, the 'Interregnum', despite the unfavourable nature of its
exterior and interior political setting, becomes the hypothetical locus
during which, the identity of Armenia seems to have been forged, as that
of a nation existing outside the framework of a political state.
Consequently, the purpose of the present investigation is to eschew a
political approach, which has proved at best episodic and fragmentary, in
order to seek, in a period devoid of a centralized state, a different
explanation for the continuous survival of 'Armenia', in spite of the
numerous vicissitudes of its tumultuous history.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Leben & Brauch, Soziale Aspekte
