Introduction: In the history of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, the figure of Zabel holds a unique place. She ascended the throne not by conquest or election, but because her father had no male heir. Her biography was almost entirely determined by the decisions of others—regents, councils of nobles, and exter...
Introduction A code is usually written by the state for its courts. In the case of Mkhitar Gosh, it was the opposite: he wrote a book of laws at a time when Armenian statehood in Eastern Armenia was in the phase of restoration, and a significant part of the Armenian population lived under foreign rule. It was this circ...
Introduction: In Armenian medieval literature, very few authors have left a first-person account of their own life. Anania Shirakatsi has. His autobiographical work, "Vasn vorpisut'ean kenats' iwrots'" ("On the Circumstances of His Life"), is a rare document; the seventh-century scientist himself wrote...
Introduction There are few episodes in the history of Armenia that are repeated so often and examined so little. The sentence "Hannibal built Artashat" is found in textbooks, travel guides, and hundreds of articles. But when we turn to the primary sources, the picture is much more...
The year is 1184. Every summer, fever breaks out in the swamps of the lowland regions of Cilician Armenia. People shiver, burn with fever, many die. No one knows why. That year, commissioned by Catholicos Grigor IV Tgha, the country's chief physician Mkhitar Heratsi finishes a book that will become... Armenian medicin...
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