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It was mentioned at <strong>the</strong> beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> this chapter<br />

that <strong>the</strong>re is more than one way to categorize <strong>the</strong> <strong>13</strong>-14th<br />

century sources. <strong>The</strong> method followed here has been to<br />

classify <strong>the</strong> material on <strong>the</strong> basis <strong>of</strong> its application to<br />

studies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Turco</strong>-<strong>Mongol</strong> <strong>in</strong>vasions <strong>and</strong>/or <strong>the</strong> lords <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Armenia</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>13</strong>-14th centuries. <strong>The</strong> Penan literary<br />

histories are more relevant for study <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>vasions.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y are important for <strong>the</strong>ir Muslim viewpo<strong>in</strong>t <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

picture <strong>the</strong>y provide <strong>of</strong> <strong>Armenia</strong> as part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> larger<br />

fl-Khanid government. <strong>The</strong> non-<strong>Armenia</strong>n chronograph!es <strong>and</strong><br />

geographies are important for <strong>in</strong>formation on <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>vasions<br />

<strong>and</strong> conditions <strong>in</strong> western <strong>and</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>rn historical <strong>Armenia</strong>.<br />

Travellers' accounts conta<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>formation on conditions <strong>of</strong><br />

life dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> <strong>Mongol</strong> dom<strong>in</strong>ation, <strong>and</strong> on certa<strong>in</strong> <strong>Armenia</strong>n<br />

lords. <strong>The</strong> History <strong>of</strong> K'art*li holds a uniquely important<br />

Muradyan, op.cit.. pp. 24-26. Whe<strong>the</strong>r or not he utilized<br />

<strong>Armenia</strong>n sources is debated. In one passage he refers to<br />

an account "written by a certa<strong>in</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r chronicler" (KG p.<br />

226) concern<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> flight <strong>of</strong> queen Rusudan's son David<br />

from Qara-Qorum to Abxazia—an account he f<strong>in</strong>ds unacceptable.<br />

Perhaps he is referr<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> peculiar account found <strong>in</strong><br />

Step'annos Orbelean's History (SO pp. 151-53). A connection<br />

between <strong>the</strong> Chronicle <strong>and</strong> Grigor Ataierc'i's History <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Kation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Archers is also possible. It is lamentable<br />

that no corpus <strong>of</strong> Georgian <strong>in</strong>scriptions comparable to<br />

<strong>the</strong> Corpus Inacriptionum Armenicarua or even to Kostaneanc'ls<br />

Annal <strong>of</strong> Inscriptions[Vf] presently exists. None<strong>the</strong>less,<br />

some few Georgian <strong>in</strong>scriptions relevant to <strong>the</strong> socio-religious<br />

history <strong>of</strong> <strong>13</strong>-14th century <strong>Armenia</strong> have been published.<br />

Among <strong>the</strong>se are <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>scription <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Georgian kat'oiikos<br />

Epip an made <strong>in</strong> 1218/19 when <strong>the</strong> kat'oiikos was bless<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>the</strong> churches at Ani [first published by N.Marr, Kapis'<br />

Epifaniia Katplikosa Gruzii (<strong>The</strong> Inscriptions <strong>of</strong> Epifan.<br />

Katolikos <strong>of</strong> Georgia).CSt. Petersburg. 1910); <strong>Armenia</strong>n<br />

translation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> text <strong>in</strong> Ararat (1911) PP. 664-66]; <strong>in</strong>scrip-<br />

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