Yet shifts in historiography have perhaps contributed more to its liminal status. One might blame realities of geography and language: a stony tableland wedged between Byzantium and the Sasanian and Islamic Near East, home to a tongue unintelligible to Greek or Latin ears, Armenia could be perceived as not easily absorbed within the traditional contours of the field. For those seeking "Armenia," this interval is as familiar as it is bleak, for the cultures of the Transcaucasus typically occupy a marginal position, if any, within the study of the Middle Ages. Between the index entries for "Aries" and "arms and armor" in most general studies of medieval art is a thin rectangle of white space.
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