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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: universal history of Step'anos Tarōnec'i
    sub title: introduction, translation, and commentary
  name:
    name part: Greenwood, Tim
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 358 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The 'Universal History' ('Patmut'iwn tiezerakan') of Step'anos Taronec'i is a history of the world in three books, composed by the Armenian scholar at the end of the tenth century and extending from the era of Abraham to the turn of the first millennium. It was completed in 1004/5 CE, at a time when the Byzantine Empire was expanding eastwards across the districts of historic Armenia and challenging key aspects of Armenian identity. Step'anos responded to these changing circumstances by looking to the past and fusing Armenian tradition with Persian, Roman and Islamic history, thereby asserting that Armenia had a prominent and independent place in world history. The 'Universal History' was intended to affirm and reinforce Armenian cultural memory. This volume presents the first ever English translation of this work, drawing upon Manukyan's 2012 critical edition of the text, and is also the first study and translation of the Universal History to be published outside Armenia for a century. Fully annotated and with a substantial introduction, it not only provides an accessible guide to the text, drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship available, but also offers valuable new insights into the significance of an often overlooked work, the intellectual and literary contexts within which it was composed, and its place in the Armenian tradition.
  note: Tim Greenwood.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-337) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tarōnetsʻi
      name part: Stepʻanos
      name part: active 10th-11th century
  subject:
    topic: World history
    genre: Early works to 1800
  subject:
    geographic: Armenia
    topic: History
    temporal: To 428
  subject:
    geographic: Armenia
    topic: History
    temporal: 428-1522
  classification: D17 .G74 2017
  classification: 909.07
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in Byzantium
  identifier: 9780198792512
  identifier: 0198792514
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170418
    record change date: 20170920143412.0
    record identifier: in00003886538