Dmytro Dymydyuk

University of Warsaw, Studium Europy Wschodniej, Undergraduate

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Department of History of Middle Ages and Byzantine Studies, Graduate Student

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PhD Student at the Department of History of Middle Ages and Byzantine Studies at the Faculty of History (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). Master's student at the Center for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw.
My research is focused on arms and armours of the Bagratid Armenia (end of 9 - middle of 11 c.).
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Weapons of the Bagratid Armenia (end of the 9th – middle of the 11th c.).: Зброя Вірменії епохи Багратидів (кінець ІХ – середина ХІ ст.)

The PhD thesis is devoted to the study of different types of melee cold and pole weapons and mech... more The PhD thesis is devoted to the study of different types of melee cold and pole weapons and mechanical ranged weapons used by Armenian soldiers in the times of the Bagratid Armenia (end of the 9th – middle of the 11th c.).
The study is based on the analysis of Armenian written, archeological, and figurative sources, however, their use is complicated by several moments. Medieval Armenian chronicles do not provide detailed descriptions of weapons and clear meanings of military terms. Also, only a few artifacts of arms and armors from the Bagratid era have survived to this day, most of which were poorly researched, undated, and in poor condition. In addition, the schematic representation of weapons on pictorial sources creates the risk of its misinterpretation.
In Armenian historiography arms and armors of the Bagratid era were considered on the margins of military-political studies or the history of handicrafts, while in world historiography this topic appeared very rarely and was rather an addition to research related to the military organization of Byzantium or the Caliphate.
Taking into consideration the abovementioned difficulties, special attention in the thesis was made to comparative analysis with Byzantine, Georgian, Rus’, Nomadic, and Arab-Persian (Muslim) materials, because Bagratid Armenia laid on the frontier between the aforementioned countries and civilizations, thereby accepting and retransmitting their cultural and military achievements.
It has been proven that figurative sources can be considered an accurate source which, after critical and comparative analysis, can be used for studying medieval military history. Strong evidence for this is the presence of numerous specific military details on the relief studied.
The results of the research enrich the existing source base on the history of arms and armor studies of Central and Eastern Europe and the Near East with previously unknown materials and artifacts from the territory of Armenia and the South Caucasus. Also, the thesis enhance further research on the military studies of the South Caucasus.
Attention to the necessity of conducting Armenological research was drawn, where Armenian arms and armor studies will not be the subject but the object of research, where the issues of the armament of medieval Armenian warriors will be analyzed in comparison with Eastern Roman and Muslim samples, in an attempt to make this study more relevant. The same concerns other countries in the South Caucasus.

The dissertation was written between 2017 and 2022, but due to the full-scale Russian invasion, it has not yet been defended. The text is written in Ukrainian with an English summary.

You can buy my book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weapons-Bagratid-Armenia-end-9th/dp/B0DH3WZLTL

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