Prolegomenon to the Millennial History of the Western Armenian World
‒ From ‘Kingdoms’ to an Awakening ‒
Politics and Culture
The First Phase Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries
Քննական Նախաբան Արևմտեան Հայաշխարհի Հազարամեայ Պատմութեան
Թագաւորութիւններէ մինչև Զարթօնք ‒ Քաղաքականութիւն և Մշակոյթ
Առաջին Հանգրուանը Տասերորդէն Տասն
ըհինգերորդ Դար
Prolegomenon to the Millennial History of the Western Armenian World – From Kingdoms to an Awakening ‒ Politics and Culture ‒ The First Phase Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries by Prof. Seta B. Dadoyan (Los Angeles: The Western Prelacy, 2026. ISBN 978-1-967180-02-8. 255 pages) is the third and most extensive volume of the Book Series of the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Church of America, entitled “Հիմնահարցեր եւ Հանգրուաններ Արեւմտեան Հայաշխարհի Կազմաւորումին մէջ/Fundamentals and Phases in the Making of the Western Armenian World”, launched in the spring of 2025. The first two volumes are bilingual, they are:
‒Nersēs IV Shnorhali – Saint and Diplomat and the Persistence of the People and the Church in the
Western Armenian World/Ներսէս Դ. Շնորհալի Սուրբ եւ Դիւանագէտ ‒ Ժողովուրդին ու Եկեղեցիին Գոյատեւումը Արեւմտեան Հայաշխարհին մէջ. (2025).
‒Yovhan III Ōdznets‘i Saint, Jurist and Great Master of Armenian Mesopolitan Culture and Diplomacy/
Յովհան Գ. Օձնեցի (իշխ.717-728) Սուրբը, Կանոնագէտը և Մեծ Վարպետը Հայ Միջնաշխարհեան Մշակոյթի եւ Դիւանագիտութեան. (2025)
Prolegomenon to the Millennial History of the Western Armenian World
Table of Contents
Introduction. A Critique of the ‘Center-Periphery’ Paradigm – The ‘Western and Eastern Armenian Worlds’ Historiographic Model
Part One. Formation of the Western Armenian World –
Chapter 1. Beginnings in the Earlier Periods
Chapter 2. The Armenian Intermezzo
Part Two. The Dynastic Triangle or the Second Age of Kingdoms ‒ Twelfth to Fourteenth centuries
Chapter I. Cilicia. The first Body Politic in the Western Armenian World
Chapter II. The Zak‘arians at Ani
Chapter III. The City State of Erznka/Erzinjān
Part Three. Problematics of Sovereignty, Orthodoxy and Identity ‒ The State and the Church in Cilicia
Chapter I. From the fall of Ani in 1045 to Prince Lewon II
Chapter II. The hundred years from 1080-1190s
Chapter III. From Lewon I’s realpolitik in 1190s, to the fall of Sis in 1375
Chapter IV. A different and novel perspective on the “1441 Movement”
A List of the Cilician Princes/Kings and their Contemporary Catholicoi
Part Four. A Mesopolitan Culture in the Western Armenian World ‒ The Path to the Awakening
Chapter I. Beginnings in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries – Narekats‘i and Magistros as factors
Chapter II. The Silver Age in Cilicia ‒ Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries
Chapter III. Medieval Cosmopolitanism in the Western Armenian World – The Case of Erznka
Chapter IV. Poetry as Bridge to an Early Awakening
In Conclusion. The Arguments in the Four Parts
