Myth and Reality: Armenian Identity in the Early Middle Ages
A. E. Redgate
A Christian isolationism, adherence to doctrine the Roman/Byzantine Empire deemed heretical, has popularly been assumed have integral medieval Armenian identity. However, Armenians’ isolation was only partial: pilgrimage Holy Land joined them wider world; missionary work limited rather by politics and internal problems; orthodoxy desire for church union were strong in history. ‘National’ unity not an ideal, but distinctiveness asserted propagating, literature sculpture, Old Testament, Hebraic descent rival aristocratic families, equivalence between their leaders Testament figures.
National Identities