ABSTRACT
In Cilicia, theological, sociological, political literature, as well as poetry and the arts constituted a very unique cultural-intellectual phenomenon that only the Cilician condition between the east and the west could produce. It reviews four aspects of the new intellectual culture in a new world: theology, philosophy, sciences, and miniatures. Philosophical "realism" and pragmatism—for most Cilician authors, spiritual and social balance, or in Platonic terms "justice," could only be achieved through the balance between reason and passions. As of the twelfth century, the intellectual legacy of Cilicia laid the foundations and provided the paradigms for the Armenian diasporic experience for the coming centuries amid different cultures and peoples. Grigor Narekac'i, Grigor Magistros, and Yovhannes Sarkawag were the products of the tenth–eleventh centuries when, despite social–religious unrest in most parts of Armenia, there was also prosperity and progress.
