TheHistoryattributedtoSebeosisoneofthemajorworksofearlyArmenianhistoriography.Althoughanonymous,itwaswritteninthemiddleoftheseventhcentury,atimewhencomparablechroniclesinGreekandSyriacaresparse.SebeostracesthefortunesofArmeniainthesixthandseventhcenturieswithinthebroaderframeworkoftheByzantine-Sasanianconflict.Comprisingtwovolumes,part1(240pages)isthetranslationandnotesfollowedbypart2(216pages)whichcontainsthehistoricalcommentary,thisexcellentpublicationwillbeofinteresttoallthoseinvolvedinthestudyofArmenia,theCaucasus,theEasternRomanEmpireandtheMiddleEastinlateantiquity.ItwillbeofparticularvaluetoIslamicists,sinceSebeosnotonlysetsthesceneforthecomingofIslam,butprovidestheonlysubstantialnon-Muslimaccountoftheinitialperiodofexpansion.
