Thesis Chapters by Samvel L. Grigoryan
La localisation du monastère royal de Drazark et du château de Kopitaṙ, Chapter of the PhD Thesis Samvel Grigoryan, "Les Arméniens et les Francs : étude historique et géographique de la noblesse et de son implantation dans l’Arménie méditerranéenne", Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, 2021
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Observations sur la localisation des monasteres de Skewṙa et de Mličʽ, Chapter of the PhD Thesis Samvel Grigoryan, "Les Arméniens et les Francs : étude historique et géographique de la noblesse et de son implantation dans l’Arménie méditerranéenne", Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, 2021
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La Maison franque de Marach et K'esun, Chapter of the PhD Thesis Samvel Grigoryan, "Les Arméniens et les Francs : étude historique et géographique de la noblesse et de son implantation dans l’Arménie méditerranéenne", Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, 2021
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La bibliothèque universitaire des Lettres, sciences humaines et sociales Ramon Llull, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, 2021
Thèse soutenue le 11 décembre 2021 au seine du Centre d'études médiévales de Montpellier, Univers... more Thèse soutenue le 11 décembre 2021 au seine du Centre d'études médiévales de Montpellier, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
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Conference Presentations by Samvel L. Grigoryan
Toponymy and Geography of Armenian Charters, 2024
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The Armenian Monasteries of Cilicia: Problem of Localisation, 2024
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The Armeno-Chalcedonian Nobility in Mediterranean Armenia, 11th-13th centuries. - International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 1-4, 2024., 2024
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The Syrian Contribution to State-Building, Power and Diplomacy in Mediterranean Armenia. - International Conference "Connected Revivals? Transregional Perspectives on the Syrian, Copto-Arabic and Armenian Cultural Renaissances (11th-14th centuries)". - Austrian Academy of Sciences, June 6-8, 2024., 2024
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The Byzantium’s policy in the East at the 9th-11th centuries and the Seljuk invasions resulted in... more The Byzantium’s policy in the East at the 9th-11th centuries and the Seljuk invasions resulted in migrations of nobility, unprecedented in scale and character, from Armenia and certain provinces of Georgia to Anatolia and other parts of the Byzantine Empire. Peaking between 1020s et 1070s, these processes had involved at their final stage three Armenian kings and many highest-ranking ishkhans (princes) with their subjects, regiments and hierarchical structures. Most of the displaced persons and families had experienced two or more displacements within the Middle Euphrates region, Cappadocia, etc. At the end of 11th and in 12th century some of them have found a harbour in Cilicia or Isauria.
The proposed study considers the transfer of Armenian nobles to the West in the context of transformations in their identity. The new sources and innovative approaches used provide us an opportunity to trace the changes in confessional affiliation, language traditions, matrimonial environment, ethnic self-identification and political loyalty experienced during the above-mentioned migration processes and the “acquisition of a new homeland” by the representatives of the Houses of Arcruni, the Likandeankʽ, the Bazuneancʽ, by the alleged ancestors and descendants of Gabriel of Melitene, by certain “Chalcedonian” families related to the Ṙubenians and the Hetʽumians, two most powerful dynasties in Cilician Armenia.
Our paper also examines the factors contributed to the aforementioned changes which to a certain extent can be characterized as the transformation of an Armenian noble into a Hoyn or a Hoṙom (verbatim “Greek”, in the sense of the word, “Armenian Chalcedonian”), with the subsequent implantation of the descendants of the latter into the elite of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and Isauria.
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Observations sur la toponymie du royaume dArmenie (cilicienne), 2019
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In recent years, twelve Armenian inscriptions and fragments of inscriptions were found in Cilicia... more In recent years, twelve Armenian inscriptions and fragments of inscriptions were found in Cilicia. Before this, the epigraphic heritage from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia encompassed only about twenty Armenian, Old French and Latin texts. My paper presents a study of the inscriptions discovered in 2016–2017 among the church ruins in the village of Maksutoluğu (northeastern Cilicia) and in so-called Dağlı Kalesi (western Cilicia), as well as a review of other epigraphic pieces found recently in other parts of Cilicia.
I will also make a presentation of the ecclesiastical edifice situated in the village of Kıbrıslar (northern Cilicia). Earlier, I had identified this medieval site with the holy cloister of Drazark, burial place of the kings and queens of Armenia, other members of the Armenian princely and royal house, as well as of catholicoi. Further study, in which Prof. Patrick Donabédian (Head of the Laboratory of the Mediterranean Medieval and Modern Archeology, Aix-Marseille University) and Jirair Christianian (Independent Researcher) are taking part, revealed that some architectural elements of the structure resemble those of Eastern Armenian memorial churches dated within the first half of fourteenth century (Surb Astuacacin / Eghvard; “Burt‘elashen” Surb Astuacacin / Noravank‘; Surb Minas / Kaputan). This part of the paper includes the first presentation of a hidden medieval cave complex located near Kıbrıslar-Drazark.
By the end of the presentation, the audience will have information about contributions of these recent discoveries to various issues of Armenian studies and about perspectives for further research in this field.
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Thesis Chapters by Samvel L. Grigoryan
Conference Presentations by Samvel L. Grigoryan
The proposed study considers the transfer of Armenian nobles to the West in the context of transformations in their identity. The new sources and innovative approaches used provide us an opportunity to trace the changes in confessional affiliation, language traditions, matrimonial environment, ethnic self-identification and political loyalty experienced during the above-mentioned migration processes and the “acquisition of a new homeland” by the representatives of the Houses of Arcruni, the Likandeankʽ, the Bazuneancʽ, by the alleged ancestors and descendants of Gabriel of Melitene, by certain “Chalcedonian” families related to the Ṙubenians and the Hetʽumians, two most powerful dynasties in Cilician Armenia.
Our paper also examines the factors contributed to the aforementioned changes which to a certain extent can be characterized as the transformation of an Armenian noble into a Hoyn or a Hoṙom (verbatim “Greek”, in the sense of the word, “Armenian Chalcedonian”), with the subsequent implantation of the descendants of the latter into the elite of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and Isauria.
I will also make a presentation of the ecclesiastical edifice situated in the village of Kıbrıslar (northern Cilicia). Earlier, I had identified this medieval site with the holy cloister of Drazark, burial place of the kings and queens of Armenia, other members of the Armenian princely and royal house, as well as of catholicoi. Further study, in which Prof. Patrick Donabédian (Head of the Laboratory of the Mediterranean Medieval and Modern Archeology, Aix-Marseille University) and Jirair Christianian (Independent Researcher) are taking part, revealed that some architectural elements of the structure resemble those of Eastern Armenian memorial churches dated within the first half of fourteenth century (Surb Astuacacin / Eghvard; “Burt‘elashen” Surb Astuacacin / Noravank‘; Surb Minas / Kaputan). This part of the paper includes the first presentation of a hidden medieval cave complex located near Kıbrıslar-Drazark.
By the end of the presentation, the audience will have information about contributions of these recent discoveries to various issues of Armenian studies and about perspectives for further research in this field.
The proposed study considers the transfer of Armenian nobles to the West in the context of transformations in their identity. The new sources and innovative approaches used provide us an opportunity to trace the changes in confessional affiliation, language traditions, matrimonial environment, ethnic self-identification and political loyalty experienced during the above-mentioned migration processes and the “acquisition of a new homeland” by the representatives of the Houses of Arcruni, the Likandeankʽ, the Bazuneancʽ, by the alleged ancestors and descendants of Gabriel of Melitene, by certain “Chalcedonian” families related to the Ṙubenians and the Hetʽumians, two most powerful dynasties in Cilician Armenia.
Our paper also examines the factors contributed to the aforementioned changes which to a certain extent can be characterized as the transformation of an Armenian noble into a Hoyn or a Hoṙom (verbatim “Greek”, in the sense of the word, “Armenian Chalcedonian”), with the subsequent implantation of the descendants of the latter into the elite of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and Isauria.
I will also make a presentation of the ecclesiastical edifice situated in the village of Kıbrıslar (northern Cilicia). Earlier, I had identified this medieval site with the holy cloister of Drazark, burial place of the kings and queens of Armenia, other members of the Armenian princely and royal house, as well as of catholicoi. Further study, in which Prof. Patrick Donabédian (Head of the Laboratory of the Mediterranean Medieval and Modern Archeology, Aix-Marseille University) and Jirair Christianian (Independent Researcher) are taking part, revealed that some architectural elements of the structure resemble those of Eastern Armenian memorial churches dated within the first half of fourteenth century (Surb Astuacacin / Eghvard; “Burt‘elashen” Surb Astuacacin / Noravank‘; Surb Minas / Kaputan). This part of the paper includes the first presentation of a hidden medieval cave complex located near Kıbrıslar-Drazark.
By the end of the presentation, the audience will have information about contributions of these recent discoveries to various issues of Armenian studies and about perspectives for further research in this field.
Independent historian, Moscow,
T‘agawor, Korol‘ or Czar: The Impact of Soviet-Western Relations
on the Historiography of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
The Cold War had its negative effect not only on the political prospects of Armenian people, now divided by the Iron Curtain, but also on historical studies in the USSR, including the study of the history of the Armenian medieval kingdom of Cilicia in the 11th-14th centuries. This paper examines why this effect occurred, how it developed and what distortions and other negative consequences it brought to. Narrating the genesis of Cilician Armenia, Prof. Sirarpie Der-Nersessian wrote: “For the first time in their history, the Armenians became masters of the country which had an outlet to the sea and direct communication with the peoples of the West.” The close and immediate contacts with the Franks of the Latin East and other Western Europeans favored the development of the Armenian kingdom along the Western-European model. To some extent, it was a “westernized” Armenian state, a European Armenia. That is why the historiography of Cilician Armenia came into collision with Soviet Cold War-era ideology, a major component of which was anti-Western propaganda. Before WWII and even by the beginning of the Cold War, the Soviet authorities and historians were mainly oblivious to the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. However, the end of this “period of oblivion” would signify the beginning of the writing of the history of this kingdom “in light of Soviet propaganda”. This change in approach of the Soviet authorities towards the historiography of Cilician Armenia occurred in 1940s due to three objectives: (a) to gain the sentiments of the Armenian public, including the sentiments of the Diasporan Armenians, during World War II; (b) to use the “Armenian factor” in Soviet relations with Turkey; and (c) to ensure the ideological backing of the Diaspora Armenians for the repatriation campaign which began in 1946.
et des arguments éclairant sa proche parenté avec la maison royale.
ABSTRACT – This paper deals with the family origin and domain of Adam de Gaston (Siratan), seneschal and bailli of Armenia, the most powerful vassal of King Lewon and the regent for King's daughter, Queen Zapēl. In particular, it answers a question, to what did Adam owed his position and the degree of kingly trust he accrued. The study reveals evidences and arguments pointing to his close kinship with the Royal House.
The second fortress, now called Yilankale, was constructed most likely between June 19, 1320 and January 26, 1329 and was named after the king Lewon IV. The medieval authors called it Tłay Lewonin (with Klay Tłay Lewonin / the Castle of [king] Lewon the Young in mind), apparently also Tʽagaworašen.
In addition to these names, I propose to designate the fortresses by the conditional names Lewonklay I and Lewonklay II respectively, in chronological sequence.
The identification of Manaš with Manaz village (present-day Beylice, about 40 km north-east of the castle of) is generally accepted by the researchers. We think that it contradicts the geographical order of the Coronation list. We identify Manaš with the ruins of Manavşa kalesi near Degirmençay village which is situated about 35 km south-west of Papeṙōn. We also give arguments in support of identification of Dağli kalesi with Berdak Castle which follows Manaš in the list.
Postgasse 9, 2. Stock, Hörsaal (barrierefreier Zugang Schönlaterngasse 12 - Lift)
Zeit: Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2023, 18.30 Uhr
The Armenian kingdom in Cilicia (today's southeastern Turkey) in the 11th-14th centuries represented the last independent state of the Armenians until the 20th century. Its creation was based on the migration of various noble houses and their followers from the South Caucasus towards the Mediterranean into territories, which since the 10th century were under Byzantine control. However, the exact origin of various actors is still controversial today and will be subjected to a new investigation in this lecture. Some traces lead not only to Armenia, but also to Georgia and to the border regions between these countries and Byzantium, which were characterized by multilingualism and different religious denominations.