Late Antiquity transformed the Armenian and Caucasian highlands into a contested crossroads of empires, faiths, and dynasties. Caught between Rome and Sasanian Iran, the great naxarar and aznauri houses of Armenia, Iberia, and Albania forged a distinctive social order, one in which lineage, land, and holiness became inseparable instruments of authority. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to reexamine that world through three intertwined lenses: power, the vertical bon ...