ARMENIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF V-VII CENTURIES: SPECIFICITY OF STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES OF NARRATION
Abstract
Focusing on the historical works of the first Armenian historians and writers of V-VII centuries the issue scrutinizes the peculiarities and formula of the textual organization characteristic to the Armenian "Histories". The author concludes that the structures of the works under consideration draw upon somewhat common historical scenario implying the fate of the Armenian people’s instant dependance on their commitment to the Christianity. The author shows that the events of the Armenian late antique history gave grounds for developing of two different blueprints of the Armenian history: the worst-case and the optimistic ones.
About the Author
P. A. Akopian
Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (UNN)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
the assistant of the Department of Medieval Civilizations History, Institute of International Relations and World History,
Nizhny Novgorod
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