Վարդան Մամիկոնյանի գործունեությունը 415-442 թթ. (Activities of Vardan Mamikonyan in 415–442)
Vardanyan, Argishti · 2023
Reconstructs why the office of sparapet (commander-in-chief) stayed vacant after Hamazasp Mamikonyan's death in 415 and was withheld from Vardan Mamikonyan, linking it to the Mamikonyans' traditional Roman orientation and their tie to Catholicos Sahak Partev. Traces Theodosius II's appointment of Vardan as stratelates of Western Armenia in 422, the Persian king Vram V's restoration of his dynastic rights in 432, and how the 442 outbreak of the Persian-Kushan war finally forced his appointment as sparapet of Eastern Armenia. Draws on Movses Khorenatsi and Tovma Artsruni.
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Vardanyan, Argishti 2023. Վարդան Մամիկոնյանի գործունեությունը 415-442 թթ. (Activities of Vardan Mamikonyan in 415–442). Լրաբեր հասարակական գիտությունների / Herald of the Social Sciences, No. 3 (669), pp. 75–85 (Institute of History, NAS RA, Yerevan); ISSN 0320-8117; DOI 10.53548/0320-8117-2023.3-75. https://doi.org/10.53548/0320-8117-2023.3-75
What this offers a reader
Backstory to the hero of Avarayr, based on the primary Armenian chroniclers; Armenian-language.
Peer-reviewed academy-journal article with trilingual abstract; useful for Mamikonyan and Marzpanate studies.
Deepens the story of Vardan Mamikonyan, a foundational figure of Armenian national memory, before Avarayr.
Who Vardan Mamikonyan was and how he rose to command: the years before the famous battle.
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