"Medieval Violence" in the State of Cilician Armenia: From Legal Issues to Everyday Life
Gevorgyan, Zohrab · 2024
The lawcodes in use in Cilician Armenia, those of Mkhitar Gosh and Smbat the Constable, contain many definitions of violence that need to be read in their medieval context. Gevorgyan concentrates on violence as defined under matrimonial law and in the ordinary run of domestic and social relations. He asks what examples of the legal definition of violence the Cilician sources actually give, how those cases were framed juridically, and what the formulations reveal about the multi-confessional, multi-ethnic coexistence of daily life in Cilicia.
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Gevorgyan, Zohrab 2024. "Medieval Violence" in the State of Cilician Armenia: From Legal Issues to Everyday Life. Matenadaran: Medieval and Early Modern Armenian Studies (MEMAS), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 107–122 (Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran / Brepols); eISSN 3041-5063.
What this offers a reader
Armenian law codes as a window into ordinary medieval life: including domestic violence.
Legal-social history from an NAS RA historian; uses Gosh and Smbat's Datastanagirk.
Our medieval law defined what a household could and could not do. That is worth knowing.
What Armenian medieval law codes reveal about everyday life and violence.
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