From the history of the heretical movement of Armenian Paulicians -the predecessors of Balkan's Bogomils  Cover Image

Из истории еретического движения павликиан Армении - предшественников балканских богомилов
From the history of the heretical movement of Armenian Paulicians -the predecessors of Balkan's Bogomils

Author(s): A. K. Shaginyan
Subject(s): History
Published by: Издательство Исторического факультета СПбГУ
Keywords: Bulgaria; Armenia; heresies; cultural contacts

Summary/Abstract: The Paulicians' movement (7th centuries) was narrowly associated with the Arabo-Byzantine military and political resistance. As a result the Paulicians could create their internal organization, which was an autonomous political union, troubled the Byzantine authorities. Paulicianation had the social trend, but soon it transformed to powerful heretical movement, very hard troubled the official religious institutes. That's why and the Armenian, and the Byzantine Church, in spite of they were at serious dogmatic variance, pursue the successive policy to neutralize this very dangerous movement for all over the region.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 157-164
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian