VIRTUES OF THE GOOD KING IN TENTH- AND ELEVENTH CENTURY ARMENIA: A Study of Architecture, Statuary, Inscriptions, and Family History in the Church at Aghtamar (Hard Cover)
| Author: | Redgate, A.E. | |
| Year: | 2024 | |
| Pages: | 460 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1245-2 978-1-4955-1245-2 | |
| Price: | $279.95 + shipping | |
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This book was awarded The Professor D. Simons Evans Prize for its distinguished contribution to scholarship.
This study, of royal portraits and concepts of good
kingship, was first conceived as the final chapter of a previous
one, Royal Building Programs in Tenth and Eleventh Century
Armenia: The Island City of Aghtamar. That had been intended
to address the island’s surviving tenth-century church and, and
in, its various contexts, particularly with regard to the functions
of cities and churches as settings for monarchs and for the
performance and display of monarchy. However, the amount of
material, and the possibility that some readers would be more
interested, at least initially, in portraits than building
programs, or vice versa, suggested the separate publication of
the discussion of royal portraits. These portraits are of two
kinds: graphic images and ‘pen-portraits’. The physical media of
the former are stone and paint.
kingship, was first conceived as the final chapter of a previous
one, Royal Building Programs in Tenth and Eleventh Century
Armenia: The Island City of Aghtamar. That had been intended
to address the island’s surviving tenth-century church and, and
in, its various contexts, particularly with regard to the functions
of cities and churches as settings for monarchs and for the
performance and display of monarchy. However, the amount of
material, and the possibility that some readers would be more
interested, at least initially, in portraits than building
programs, or vice versa, suggested the separate publication of
the discussion of royal portraits. These portraits are of two
kinds: graphic images and ‘pen-portraits’. The physical media of
the former are stone and paint.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Abbreviations
Names and Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Maps
1 Places mentioned in the text
2 Northern Armenia
3 Southern Armenia
1 Introduction
(a) Aghtamar and its Contexts
(b) The Royal Portraits at Aghtamar and
Their Armenian Analogues
(c) Previous Studies
(i) Before 2021
(ii) Royal Building … Aghtamar
Part I: Royal Portraits:
King Gagik Artsruni’s Portraits
at Aghtamar, and Bagratuni Portraits
2 Physiognomy
(a) Significance: Theories and Ideas
(b) Sight and Eyes
(c) King Gagik Artsruni
(d) Noses and Ears
(e) Similitude, Truth, and Visual Aids
3 Attire
(a) The Significance of Attire
(b) Headgear
(i) Crowns
(ii) Turbans
(c) Clothing
Part II: The Good King:
Attributes and Activities
4 A New Solomon
(a) Wisdom
(b) Intellectual Interests
(c) Religious Orthodoxy
5 Kingly Virtues
(a) Building and Philanthropy
(b) Humility
(c) Taking Counsel
(d) Hunting
(e) Aims and Ambitions
(i) Questions of Political and National Unity
(ii) Royal Titles
(f) War and Martyrdom
(g) Wealth
(h) Justice and Law
6 Conclusion
7 Bibliography
8 Index
List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Abbreviations
Names and Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Maps
1 Places mentioned in the text
2 Northern Armenia
3 Southern Armenia
1 Introduction
(a) Aghtamar and its Contexts
(b) The Royal Portraits at Aghtamar and
Their Armenian Analogues
(c) Previous Studies
(i) Before 2021
(ii) Royal Building … Aghtamar
Part I: Royal Portraits:
King Gagik Artsruni’s Portraits
at Aghtamar, and Bagratuni Portraits
2 Physiognomy
(a) Significance: Theories and Ideas
(b) Sight and Eyes
(c) King Gagik Artsruni
(d) Noses and Ears
(e) Similitude, Truth, and Visual Aids
3 Attire
(a) The Significance of Attire
(b) Headgear
(i) Crowns
(ii) Turbans
(c) Clothing
Part II: The Good King:
Attributes and Activities
4 A New Solomon
(a) Wisdom
(b) Intellectual Interests
(c) Religious Orthodoxy
5 Kingly Virtues
(a) Building and Philanthropy
(b) Humility
(c) Taking Counsel
(d) Hunting
(e) Aims and Ambitions
(i) Questions of Political and National Unity
(ii) Royal Titles
(f) War and Martyrdom
(g) Wealth
(h) Justice and Law
6 Conclusion
7 Bibliography
8 Index