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The Background and Development of Vardan Arewelc'i's Cosmology

Cowe, S. Peter · 1993

A study of the cosmological thought of Vardan Arewelci, the influential thirteenth-century Armenian scholar, historian and exegete, tracing the intellectual background and internal development of his account of the natural world.

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Revue des Études Arméniennes, Vol. 24 (1993), pp. 75–87 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/REA.24.0.2017112
Year
1993
Language
English
DOI
10.2143/REA.24.0.2017112

Citation

Cowe, S. Peter 1993. The Background and Development of Vardan Arewelc'i's Cosmology. Revue des Études Arméniennes, Vol. 24 (1993), pp. 75–87 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/REA.24.0.2017112. https://doi.org/10.2143/REA.24.0.2017112

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For students

Medieval Armenians had a physics. This is what it looked like.

For academics

Intellectual-history study of a major thirteenth-century Armenian scholar.

For the community

Theology and natural science were one subject for our medieval scholars.

For a general reader

What a thirteenth-century Armenian scholar thought the universe was made of.

Topics

Vardan Arewelcimedieval Armenian cosmologynatural philosophytheology and sciencethirteenth-century Armeniascholastic tradition

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