Situating the history attributed to Aristakēs Lastiverc‘i, 1000-1072: The empire of New Rome & Caucasia in the Eleventh Century

Thesis

This thesis answers a major scholarly desideratum in Armenian, Byzantine, Kartvelian (Georgian), Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies more broadly, by providing a foundational study of the eleventh-century Armenophone History attributed to Aristakēs Lastiverc‘i. This is the sole surviving Armenian-language historiographical work written in the eleventh century that discusses the era, and is the earliest surviving historiographical work in any language to discuss the Middle East’s eleventh-c...

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Authors: Matheou, NSM

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-r5gp0ggma
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Literary Theory; Social Theoy; Armenians; Armenia; Byzantium; Caucasus; Historiography
• Subjects: Social history; History; Middle Ages; Literature, Medieval; Armenian Studies