Daniel-Palu Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Hi i'm making research on cilician armenia (and thus meaning deep research) and would like some tips on books to read or sites to visit.........i want to read about military and economic organization....would really appreciate some help...finding facts on these topics have been very hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostom Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 The Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia During the Crusades by Jacob G. Ghazarian. ISBN: 0700714189. This book is part of Google's Print project which means you can search and view portions of the book online also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanetsi Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Mods can we add this to an existing thread to save room please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCA Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Try coinage of Cilician Armenia by bedoukian, cites plenty of history in htee, as well as contemporary resources. His bibliography is excellent as well. Also, on amrnienahouse.org see history and law of Cilician armenia, in russian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel-Palu Posted March 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 tx guys....really appreciate this:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwig9 Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 There is a 2 volume book edited by Richard Hovanessian, The history of the Armenians. I would recommend volume 1, regarding the Cilician Kingdom of Armenia. The greatest asset that the West had during the times of the Crusades were the Armenians. The Armenians were familiar with the economics, politics and culture of the Eastern world. The West recognized the Armenians as the strongest Christian faction in the East, and establised a relationship with the Armenians. A couple of interesting facts, one of the most famous Roman emperors, Frederick Barbarossa, drowned while trying to bring a coronation crown to the Armenian prince Levon II who later was crowned by the Pope of the Latin Church, as King Levon the Magnificent. The Armenians, not only during the time of the Crusades, had the greatest cavalry, in which any civilization surrounding the Armenians considered the Armenian cavalry one of the greatest military assets. During sieges the weapons of the West were very inadequate. According to the book edited by Richard Hovanessian, the West had to bring in Armenian engineers to build the siege weapons. During this time the Armenians produced not only some of the greatest kings of its civilization, but also the greatest saints of the Church; Saint Gregory of Narek, Saint Nerses of Lambrom, and Saint Nerses the Graceful. The West never had any gothic architecture until they saw the Armenian churches and castles. After the exposure of the West to Armenian architecture, architecture of the Western Church took a new design and size. Not to mention the castles which the towers built at the end of castle walls were changed from rectangular in the West to circular in which were of Armenian design. These are some rough ideas, if you want more details let me know I will go through my library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludwig9 Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 There is also the book, The Chroniciles of Matthew of Edessa, which is a diary kept by an Armenian knight during the Cilician kingdom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel-Palu Posted March 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 thanks Ludwig! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted March 20, 2008 Report Share Posted March 20, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afi_-vKvH4Q&feature=email Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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