Arsen Harutyunyan, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences and the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan State University, presents research on medieval Armenian noblewomen’s patronage. Drawing on epigraphic evidence, Harutyunyan examines how elite women sponsored religious and cultural projects and how their presence is recorded in inscriptions, illuminating gendered networks of power and memory in medieval Armenia.
In English.
