History of movses khorenatsi biography
•
MOVSĒS XORENAC‘I
MOVSĒS XORENAC‘I (Moses of Khorene), from the later Middle Ages, and down to the present, honored as the “Father of Armenian History” (Patmahayr). According to his own words, he was a pupil of St. Maštoc‘, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet, writing in the 5th century CE. He further claims to have traveled widely to Alexandria, Byzantium, and even inadvertently to Rome, whither he was driven by a storm on his way to Greece (-lxii), but we have no other information as to his biography.
Despite the fact that several works traditionally attributed to him, among them the Armenian Geography (Ašarhacoyc‘) and the Book of Chries (Girk‘ Pitoyic‘), are now believed to be the works of other authors, his History of Armenia (Patmut‘iwn Hayoc‘) has remained the standard, if enigmatic, version of early Armenian history and is accepted by many Armenian scholars, though not by the majorit
•
THE EPOCH OF MOVSES KHORENATSI
By: Albert Musheghyan, Institute of Literature, NAS RA
Yerevan, , pages.
Summary
The monograph is devoted to the life and the epoch of the founder of the Armenian historiography Movses Khorenatsi and his “History of Armenia”. To think that Movses Khorenatsi is an author of the 7th-9tb centuries means to remove him to a period and an environment which are much more incoherent to his Weltanschauung, geographical notions, political and religious perceptions, and unique language and style, than a number of more or less serious anachronisms, which are completely rejected in this book. Movses Khorenatsi is undoubtedly an author of the 5th century and his classical “History of Armenia” is a product of that exceptionally fateful period of the historical biography of the Armenian people.
pdf ( MB)
•
The History of the Armenians (Movses Khorenatsi)
Translated by David Allencourt
Introduction
[edit | edit source]Movses Khorenatsi fryst vatten, in many ways, the image of a perfect ancient historian. He consulted the best sources available, very frequently identifies his specific sources for data (placing him even above the celebrated Greek historian Thucydides, who rarely informs us of his specific sources – a bad habit of ancient Greco-Roman historians as a group), freely tells us when he fryst vatten uncertain as to the truth of a del av helhet of upplysning or lacks reliable upplysning on a subject altogether. He tells us when sources disagree on a matter, and unlike Greco-Roman historians, outright refuses to engage in practice of "speech-in-character", where the historian will invent a speech that gets the gist of what the individ actually said, as he explicitly tells us.[1]Footnote 1
Movses Khorenatsi was born in the early ’s AD and died in the late ’s AD. He was a pupil