The Armenian military under Justinian and Maurice: A reply to pseudo-criticism
This polemical paper discusses the three negative reviews written by Everett L. Wheeler, Ch.G. Makrypoulias, N.D. Barabanov, and G.G. Markaryan on the book “The Armenian Military in the Byzantine Empire: Conflict and Alliance under Justinian and Maurice” by A.M. Ayvazyan. The detailed analysis stro...
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| Language: | English |
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Kazan Federal University
2020-02-01
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| Series: | Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки |
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| Online Access: | https://kpfu.ru/uz-eng-hum-2020-1-16.html |
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| Summary: | This polemical paper discusses the three negative reviews written by Everett L. Wheeler, Ch.G. Makrypoulias, N.D. Barabanov, and G.G. Markaryan on the book “The Armenian Military in the Byzantine Empire: Conflict and Alliance under Justinian and Maurice” by A.M. Ayvazyan. The detailed analysis strongly questions the academic validity and sincerity of these reviews, reveals the low professionalism and extreme tendentiousness of their criticisms. The reviewers use a similar methodology for history falsification, which includes, among other things, deliberate fabrications, distortions of the original sources, disregard for the academic literature, malign substitution of the notions, and complete rejection of the patriotic narrative. All the three reviews visibly contain an anti-Armenian political-ideological bias. The paper also summarizes the positive reviews of the same book made by qualified specialists. |
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| ISSN: | 2541-7738 2500-2171 |