At the initiative of Professor G. Harutyunyan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Analytical Center “Constitutional Culture”, and with the blessing of Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, the author’s collective is preparing to publish the two-volume book “Axiological Origins of Constitutional Culture in the Millennial Chronicle of the First Nation to Adopt Christianity as a State Religion”.
Secular and ecclesiastical specialists are involved in the preparation of the publication, and their regular working meeting was held on June 21, 2017.
The work of the author’s group and the editorial team is coordinated by Professor G. Harutyunyan. The editorial staff includes Arthur Vagharshyan, Head of the Chair of Theory and History of State and Law of the Yerevan State University, Artak Movsisyan, Acting Head of the Chair of the History of Armenia, and Supreme Archimandrite Shahe Ananyan, representative of the Supreme Patriarch.
Themes of the sections of the two-volume book will be presented by Artak Movsisyan, Azat Bozoyan, Aleksan Hakobyan, Ashot Voskanyan, Arman Yeghiazaryan, Gagik Harutyunyan, Gegham Badalyan, Grigor Tananyan, Hayrapet Margaryan, and Narine Mirzoyan.
This voluminous work will include various pages of the history of development of social relations, beginning with the ancient Armenian kingdoms (from Aratta to Urartu) to our times. In this work, the authors will disclose the historical necessity of convening the Secular Assemblies and then the National Ecclesiastical Assemblies, the peculiarities of their organization, as well as the scientific and legal role and significance of the adopted canonical constitutions. In the framework of a comprehensive comparative analysis, the National Ecclesiastical Assemblies of Vagharshapat, Ashtishat, Shahapivan, Dvin, Karin, Aghvаnk, Partav, Manazkert, Shirakavan, Ani, Hark, Lori, Dzagavan, Shugri, Homkla, Tarson, Sis, and Adana, as well as the “Armenian Book of Canons”, the scientific and legal heritage of Sahak Partev, David Alavkavordi, Nerses the Gracious, Mkhitar Gosh, and Smbat Sparapet, as well as the Lawcode of Polish Armenians, the Lawcode of Astrakhan Armenians, “The Snare of Glory” by Shahamirians, and the National Constitution of the West Armenians will be presented.
The two-volume book will also be presented in English, and the broad international community will have an opportunity to get familiar with the formation and development of the Armenian legal and constitutional culture.
The book will be published in the spring of 2018.