Description
Book SynopsisThe “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 historical context. Moreover, this marks the first time that a text based on the study of surviving sixty nine manuscripts along with its English translation has been made available for scholars.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix Introduction and Presentation of the Text ...1 Chapter One:The Historical and Religious Situation in Cilician Armenia in the Second Half of the Twelfth and Beginning of the Thirteenth Century ... 7 Chapter Two:The Textual Environment and the Sources of the Letter of Love and Concord... 47 ChapterThree: The Description and the Relationship of Manuscripts, Grammar, Language ...127 The Letter of Love and Concord (Armenian and English) ... 329 Appendix A:Misplaced Text-Blocks ... 419 Appendix B: Provinces of the Eastern Roman Empire Listed in TD 421 Appendix C: Glossary of Rare Loan-Words and Hapaxes ... 429 Appendix D: List ofMSS with the Text of TD ... 433 Bibliography ... 441 Index of Geographical Names and Ancient/Medieval Persons ... 465
