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The King’s Mellifluous Tongue Study, Social Bonding, and the Making of Middle Armenian as a Language of the Elite in Medieval Cilicia
Michael Pifer · 2024
Catalogue summary
Two commissions from Vardan Areweltsi allowed King Hetum I to cultivate learned status while making written Middle Armenian an object of elite study at the Cilician court.
Why this matters
The manuscript microhistory connects vernacular language development with education, patronage, and social bonding in medieval Cilicia.
Citation
Michael Pifer 2024. The King’s Mellifluous Tongue Study, Social Bonding, and the Making of Middle Armenian as a Language of the Elite in Medieval Cilicia. Armeniaca. https://doi.org/10.30687/arm/2974-6051/2024/01/004
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