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What is being done to Armenian monuments in Artsakh now is not new and it is not vandalism. Seda Parsamyan traces the demolition policy of the Hamidian massacres of the 1890s and puts the legal question directly: when a state sets out to erase a people's churches, at what point does that become cultural genocide? She works through how the concept has been defined, redefined and quietly narrowed by people who would rather it did not apply. The frame she builds is the one now being reached for over Artsakh.

Mass Destruction of Armenian Cultural Heritage during the Hamidian Massacres (1894-1896)

Parsamyan, Seda A. · 2023 · International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–34 (AGMI, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0043
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Topic:late antiquity
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To What Extent did Armenia Become Christian during the Fourth and Fifth Centuries? Performing Christianity among Armenian Elites

Cinemre, İlhami Tekin, 2024
Le Muséon, Vol. 137, No. 3-4, pp. 405–433 (Peeters); DOI 10.2143/MUS.137.3.3293894

Argues that the narrative of Armenia's Christian history has taken on a mythical character, a distortion made worse by the total absence of pagan Armenian historiographical sources. Everything surviving was written by Christians. The fourth and fifth centuries carry outsized weight in that narrative, but Cinemre questions how accurately Christian Armenian sources depict the actual Christianization. He asks specifically how deeply Christianity penetrated the Armenian elite class as opposed to being formally professed, examining the religious influence of Christianity in what was a multicultural, multi-religious environment.

Christianization of Armenianakharar elitesfourth-century Armeniareligious practiceArmenian historiography
English
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Վարդան Մամիկոնյանի գործունեությունը 415-442 թթ. (Activities of Vardan Mamikonyan in 415–442)

Vardanyan, Argishti, 2023
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

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.

Vardan MamikonyansparapetMarzpanate ArmeniaSahak PartevArmenian-Persian relations
Armenian

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