VLADIMIR HOVSEPYAN

Applicant at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology,

and Law of the National Academy of Sciences

of the Republic of Armenia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.59546/18290744-2025.10-12-3

Annotation.

This study aims to demonstrate that, in the Early Middle Ages, the rules adopted at Armenian Church Assemblies played a significant role in the development of Armenian law. Among these, the document adopted at the Partav Church Assembly occupies a special place, elevating Armenian legal culture and all its components to a new level. In this regard, it is substantiated that church documents adopted in the Early Middle Ages in the capital of Partav in the Armenian Eastern Territory (the provinces of Utik and Artsakh in Greater Armenia) under Arab rule played a regulating role in the development of spiritual and secular relations among the Armenian people. Both the preamble to the Canons and the Canons are invaluable and essential documents for the study of the history of medieval Armenian law.

The monuments of legal thought created in the Armenian Eastern Region were considered in the context of the problems of the formation and development of Armenian law, of which the norms concerning marriage and family law had the goal of preserving the Armenian ethnicity, the appearance and identity of the Armenian people, the foundation of the traditional Armenian family.

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