University of Gladzor

"[1][2] It was established around 1280 by Nerses of Mush,[2] a student of Vardan Areveltsi, and operated until 1340 and "left behind a rich intellectual heritage".

[3] The university grew out of the monastic center of learning of the Aghberts or Gladzor Monastery in the region of Vayots Dzor.

[4] The noted miniature painters Toros Taronatsi, Avag and Momik taught and painted at Gladzor.

[4] Among the subjects taught at the university were theology, mythology, philosophy, bibliology, grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, astronomy, chronology, and geometry.

[4] Although it was referred to as a university and sometimes analogized to contemporary European universities, scholar S. Peter Cowe suggests that Gladzor and other medieval Armenian academies were more comparable to monastic schools.