title: The Role of Mashtots and Ulfila in the Creation of a New Civilizational Identity
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metadata.value: Margaryan, Yervand H.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Margaryan, Lusine Ye.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-06-29T11:26:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-06-29T11:26:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-06
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metadata.value: Margaryan Ye. H., Margaryan L. Ye. The Role of Mashtots and Ulfila in the Creation of a New Civilizational Identity. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 2, рp. 432–453. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.208 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41703
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to two educational movements of the turn of the 4th–5th centuries —
  Gothic and Armenian. Outstanding enlighteners — Ulfila and Mashtots — were at the origin
  of these movements and laid the cornerstone in the construction of the national identity of
  their peoples. In either case, it was a civilizational project designed to put an end to paganism
  and “latent barbarism” in the periphery of the Roman world, which was rapidly declining.
  The invention of their own alphabets and the translation of the Holy Scriptures was aimed
  at organizing a national Church, which in its turn was the main tool for creating a national
  identity. The introduction of the Goths to the “peoples of the Scriptures” was an initiative,
  first of all, of Ulfila himself, but his project was actively supported by the Roman authorities.
  However, there is no indication in the sources that Ulfila’s project was backed by the Gothic
  elite. In contrast, Mashtots’ educational project from the very beginning met with the approval
  and active encouragement of all strata of Armenian society, primarily, the church and secular
  elites, as well as common people. In fact, it was a nationwide project, and the seeds of Armenian
  enlightenment fell on kindly soil. This explains the surge in Armenian culture in the fifth
  century.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was written with the financial support of the Committee on Science of the Republic of
  Armenia, project no. 21AG‐6C041: “Cognitive, communicative and semiotic mechanisms of the formation
  of historical memory and national identity: transdisciplinary analysis of Armenian epic literature, historiography,
  urban space and political discourse”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: barbarism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: enlightenment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: national Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pre-modern national identity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: peoples of the Scriptures
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bible
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mashtots
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ulfila
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Role of Mashtots and Ulfila in the Creation of a New Civilizational Identity
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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