Caucasian Albania

An International Handbook

Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut, Jost Gippert, Jasmine Dum-Tragut

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9783110794595
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110794687
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the region, the discussion on Caucasian "Albania", which is little known in the West in both academic and public circles, has been reignited. The handbook provides an overview of the current state of research on the Caucasian "Albanians" in an objective, scientifically sound manner. The contributions are not necessarily intended to reveal new scientific findings but rather to summarise approved knowledge. The volume brings together internationally renowned scholars, researchers and practitioners from various fields of studies reporting on and reviewing the state of research concerning the Caucasian "Albanians", their history and archaeology, their language and written monuments, their religion, church history and their art, including their relation to the Udi people of today. The companion is intended to neutrally introduce the readership to the subject of Caucasian Albania from various perspectives.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Contents
• I Caucasian Albania in Foreign Sources
• 1 Caucasian Albania in Greek and Latin Sources
• 2 Caucasian Albania in Medieval Armenian Sources (5^th–13^th Centuries)
• II The Heritage of Caucasian Albanian
• 3 The Textual Heritage of Caucasian Albanian
• 4 The Language of the Caucasian Albanians
• 5 Caucasian Albanian and Modern Udi
• 5A The Udis’ Petition to Tsar Peter
• III The Caucasian Albanian Church
• 6 Albanians, Armenians and Georgians: a Common Liturgy
• 7 One or two? On Christological and Hierarchical Disputes and the Development of the “Church of Albania” (4^th–8^th centuries)
• 7A The Holy Covenant
• 8 Albanians in the Holy Land – Absence of Archaeological Evidence or Evidence of Absence?
• IV Architecture and Archaeology
• 9 Urban Planning and Architecture of Caucasian Albania. Main Monuments and Trends of Development
• 10 The Ensemble of the “Seven Churches” – an Ecumenical Monastery Ahead of Time?
• 11 Tigranakert in Artsakh
• V Ethnic, Religious and Social Issues
• 12 The Ethnic Situation in Antique and Medieval Caucasian Albania
• 13 The Rebels of Early Abbasid Albania
• 14 “You say Albanian, I say Armenian”: Discourses of Ethnicity and Power Around an Albanian King of Armenia
• 15 Between the Planes and the Mountains: the Albanian-Armenian Marches in the 12^th Century and David of Gandzak (c. 1065–1140)
• 15A The Gate of Ganja
• 16 Reverse Engineering: A State-Created “Albanian Apostolic Church”
• General References
• Indexes