Book
The History of the Caucasian Albanian Church According to Moses Kalankatuatsi
Editor: Ravandi-Fadai Lana
Editor: Konstantin Sajmon
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Москва, 2021, 392 p.
Moses Kalankatuatsi’s work “The History of the Country of Albania”, the first and only work on the history of Caucasian Albania, is of pivotal importance for studying the history of this state during the period of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. This monograph by Doctor of Church History and hegumen Alexiy (Nikonorov) is the first serious attempt to highlight the issues of Albanian church history based on this Albanian source in comparison with accounts by Caucasian, Persian, Syrian, Byzantine and Arabic historians. This work analyzes information contained in Moses Kalankatuatsi’s “The History of the Country of Albania” and associated with the life of the local Christian community.
Relying on historical records, the book reconstructs the canonical structure of the Albanian national church and its institutions and traces the penetration and development of Christianity within the confederation of Albanian tribes.
By leveraging a wide range of sources, employing current scholarly literature and applying a complex comparative method, a compelling picture of Christian history in Caucasian Albania from the 1st to the 9th centuries is presented.