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"This is the first multidisciplinary volume with the focus on the barely accessible highlands between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and their invaluable artistic heritage. Numerous ancient and mediaeval monuments of Artsakh/Karabagh and Nakhichevan find themselves in the crucible of a strife involving mutually exclusive national accounts. They are gravely endangered today by the politics of cultural destruction endorsed by the modern State of Azerbaijan. The book is composed of 16 contributions by renowned scholars from eight nations. It contains rare photographic documentation and a detailed inventory. Part One explores the historical geography of these lands and their architecture. Part Two analyses the development of Azerbaijani nationalism against the background of the centuries-long geopolitical contest between Russia and Turkey. Part Three documents instances of destroyed monuments and examines them in the light of international law"--

The holy cross of Aparankʻ: The making of a legend and the creation of sacred space as narrated by Gregory of Narek / Abraham Terian -- Beyond the canon: Archaic and polyethnic traditions in the sculpted images of fabulous creatures in Armenia and Georgia (Tenth-Fourteenth centuries) / Lilit Mikayelyan -- The old Georgian version of the Miracle of St. George, the princess and the dragon: Text, commentary and translation / Kevin Tuite -- Through the eyes of Armaz - Pagan and Mazdean traces in the narratives about the conversion of the Iberian king to the Christian faith / Nicolas Preud'homme -- The protevangelium of James in Georgian / Jost Gippert -- The tradition and the cult of Saint Stephen in Armenia: A preliminary assessment / Valentina Calzolari -- A possible history: the Abgar Legend in the Armenian national context / Irma Karaulashvili -- Saint Thecla: the iconographical tradition and the witness of her veneration in early medieval Armenia / Zaruhi Hakobyan -- The admonitory exhortations of Dawitʻ of Ganjak (†1140) : The Armenian-Kurdish contacts in the Kur Valley and the birth of the Armenian legal tradition / Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev -- Note on the sanctuaries shared by Yezidis and Armenians in the Armenian HIghlands / Tereza Amryan -- The Wall of Iskandar in the medieval Muslim tradition in the East Caucasus / Alikber K. Alikberov -- Apocryphes et partage : Inculturation des mythes et légendes bibliques parmi les nations du Caucase. Postface / Jean-Pierre Mahé.

Frontmatter --Preface --Contents --Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on Good Christian Rulership --A. The Good Christian Ruler in the Roman Empire --Finding a Common Cause: Fourth-Century Greek Discourses on Rulership --The Good Sinful Ruler: Ambrose of Milan and Theodosius I --The Emperor's Two Cities: Augustine's Image of the Good Christian Ruler in De civitate Dei 5.24 --Pious and Impious Christian Rulers According to Egyptian Historiography and Hagiography: A First Survey of the Evidence --Faithful Rulers and Theological Deviance: Ephrem the Syrian and Jacob of Serugh on the Roman Emperor --B. The Good Christian Ruler between Persia and Rome --Images of the Good Ruler in Sasanian Iran: An Emic View --Representations of Rulership in Late Antique Armenia --The Depiction of the Arsacid Dynasty in Medieval Armenian Historiography --Vakhtang I Gorgasali (r. 447-522) as a Christian Monarch in Georgia: His Depiction in the Life of Kartli --The Creation of a "Pious" Image of King Vačʽagan II (r. c. 485-523) of Caucasian Albania in the Tale of Vačʽagan (Early Sixth Century) --Concerning Four Kings From the Land of 'Deep Ravines, Dense Forests and Dark Thickets' --C. The Good Christian Ruler in Post-Roman Traditions --The Good Ruler from a Papal Perspective: Continuities and Discontinuities in Papal Letters from the Fourth to Eighth Centuries --The Image of the Christian Ruler in the Catholic Monarchy of Visigothic Spain: Julian of Toledo's Historia Wambae --Goodness and Cruelty: The Image of the Ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire in the Period of Christianisation (Ninth Century) --A Christian King in Africa: The Image of Christian Nubian Rulers in Internal and External Sources --D. The Good Ruler under Islamic Rule --Justice and Good Administration in Medieval Islam: The Book of the Pearl of the Ruler by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (860-940) --Images of Emperors and Emirs in Early Islamic Egypt --Shaping the Good Christian King under Muslim Rule: Constantine and the Torah in the Melkite Arabic Chronicle of Agapius of Mabbug (Tenth Century) --Index of Persons and Places --Subject Index