The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781403966360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 372 str.

Richard G. Hovannisian

Opis

Edited by the leading history of the Republic of Armenia, this is the definitive history of an extraordinary country--from its earliest foundations through the Crusades, the resistance to Ottoman and Tsarist rule, the collapse of the independent state, its brief reemergence after World War I, its subjugation by the Bolsheviks, and the establishment of the new Republic in 1991. Written by the foremost experts on each period in Armenia's history, these volumes are a major contribution to understanding the complexities of Transcaucasia.

Spis treści

Introduction; R.Hovannisian The Geography of Armenia; R.Hewsen The Formation of the Armenian People; J.Russell The Emergence of Armenia; N.Garsoian The Arshakuni Dynasty; N.Garsoian The Marzpanate; N.Garsoian The Arab Invasions and the Rise of the Bagratuni; N.Garsoian The Independent Kingdoms of Medieval Armenia; N.Garsoian The Byzantine Annexation of the Armenian Kingdoms of the Eleventh-Century; N.Garsoian Armenian Literary Culture through the Eleventh-Century; R.Thomson Armenia During the Seljuk and Mongol Periods; R.Bedrosian Cilician Armenia; A.A.Bournoutian Medieval Armenian Literary and Cultural Trends (Twelfth - Seveteenth-Centuries); P.Crowe

O autorze

RICHARD G. HOVANNISIAN is the Holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Armenia on the Road to Independence (1967) and The Republic of Armenia, 4 volumes (1971-1996), and he has edited three volumes on the Armenian genocide. A Guggenheim Fellow, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in 1991 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Erevan State University, Armenia.