By N. Garsoïan
Armenian mediaeval historians, who've focused totally on political excessive issues, have tended to brush off the greater than 4 centuries dividing the 2 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 goal of the current research, to the contrary, is to try the exam of a part of the 'Interregnum' (600-750) as a interval of spiritual synthesis and social renewal, in addition to of highbrow and especially creative effervescence. In such an interpretation, the 'Interregnum', regardless of the adverse nature of its external and inside political surroundings, turns into the hypothetical locus within which, the identification of Armenia turns out to were solid, as that of a kingdom current open air the framework of a political nation. therefore, the aim of the current research is to eschew a political process, which has proved at top episodic and fragmentary, which will search, in a interval without a centralized country, a special reason for the continual survival of 'Armenia', even with the various vicissitudes of its tumultuous historical past.
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Stephen at Lmbat, Thierry-Donabedian (1987), p. , Zodiaque), p. 49, col. pi. 23-24. , col. pi. , p. 57), Donabedian (2008), p. 221-222, fig. 435, and more importantly of the Treatise in Defense of Images against those who “say that there must be no pictures or images in the churches” by Vrt'anes K'ertol, the locum tenens of the katholikate from 604 to 607, Der Nersessian (1944-1945), testify to its existence, while the skill in the representation of the vision at Lmbat suggests its considerable degree of expertise.
196-198, [PS]-SEB, I, p. xxxiii-xxxiv, Howard-Johnston (2002), p. 43, Aboaryan (1964). I 52 53 N. GARSOIAN A "DARK AGE”? works have survived, move on to place Armenia within the context of the contemporary world. This widening scope even in the work of an unknown writer, such as is the Pseudo-Sebeos, was fully noted and appreciated by Robert Thomson, the translator of his anonymous His tory: «[Pseudo-] Sebeos’ theme was not a narrow one. He did not con fine himself to an account of Armenian affairs in difficult times but rather reached out to cover important contemporary developments in the domes tic history and mutual relations of Armenia’s two great neighbours, the Persian empire, ...
Lewond, ix, p. 29-30, repeated in YK, xxi, p. 121-124 = YK-M, p. 107-108; Mah6 (1993), p. 477-478: “Get accord marque un toumant ddcisif dans I’histoire de I’^glise armdnienne. Ddsormais Tautoritd arabe s’assortit d’une reconnaissance rdciproque du calife et du catholicos. En devenant le garant officiel de la bonne foi de sa nation et en sollicitant le maintien des positions traditionnelles de son 6glise, le patriarche excluait du m6me coup toute forme de rapprochement avec les Grecs, ... " The same favourable view of Armeno-Arab relations is given in the account by the kat'olikos Yovhannes the Historian, mentioned above, see II, n.