Kirakos Ganjakec’i (XIIIe siècle). Histoire d’Arménie
Traduction, introduction et notes
By (author) P. Boisson
The History of Armenia by Kirakos Ganjakec’i (1271/1272 ?), is a fundamental source for the Mongol invasions in Armenia. A privileged witness of the invasion of the Mongolian troops into Transcaucasiaof which he was a prisonerhe gives a detailed account, neither lacking in flavor nor in piquancy, of this people, who terrorized the populations from 1231 onwards and built an empire. The information provided by Kirakos Ganjakec’i complements that of European travelers, Persian, Seljuk, and Syriac-speaking historiographers. It is also a unique source on the princes of the Zak’arean family who presided over the destiny of a large part of Armenia under Georgian rule (1199-1236). But Kirakos Ganjakec’i is above all a vardapet of the Armenian Church who is interested in all the cultural problems of his time and reveals the details of the great theological debates that agitated the religious history of the thirteenth century.
L’Histoire de Kirakos Ganjakec’i ( 1271/1272 ?), est une source fondamentale pour les invasions mongoles en Armenie. Temoin privilegie de l’irruption des troupes mongoles en Transcaucasie – dont il fut le prisonnier – il fait un recit circonstancie, qui ne manque ni de saveur ni de piquant, sur ce peuple, qui de la Chine du Nord, en passant par la Perse, la Pologne, la Hongrie et meme jusqu’aux portes de l’Italie, terrorisa des 1231 les populations et bytit un empire. Les renseignements fournis par Kirakos Ganjakec’i completent ceux des voyageurs europeens, des historiographes persans, seljoukides ou de langue syriaque. C’est egalement une source primordiale voire unique, sur les princes de la famille des Zak’arean qui preside aux destinees d’une grande partie de l’Armenie sous obedience georgienne (1199-1236). Mais Kirakos Ganjakec’i est avant tout un vardapet qui s’interesse a tous les problemes culturels de son temps, et a ce titre, il devoile les details des grands debats theologiques qui ont agite l’histoire religieuse du XIIIe siecle. La traduction et les annotations de ce texte par Patricia Boisson permettent d’en saisir toute la singularite et l’importance.
- By (author) P. Boisson
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