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Gosh MkhitarArmenian scholar
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Mkhitar Gosh was an Armenian scholar, fabulist and priest. He was born in 1120 in Gandzak.
For many years he lived in the Monastery of Nor-Getsik, founded by him, which since his death has become known better as Goshavank. Goshavank is in Ijevan region Gosh village. He also wrote a number of popular fables, published in 1790. He had focused on social aspect in his fables, which was an innovation in medieval times. He appraised kindness and labor, tearing off the mask from the vices.
The works of Mkhitar Gosh were later adapted into a Datastanagirk' codex, written in 1184, in Middle Armenian, which was prepared by Smbat the Constable, an Armenian noble, military commander, and judge in the 13th century. It was the first complete codex in the Armenian reality. He had used the Byzantine law, Armenian common law, Canon and social laws. The codex is written in Grabar (classical or old Armenian). It consists of the introduction and two parts – Canon and social laws. It differs for its laconism. There is no definite systemizing in it: the theoretical remarks are combined with the author’s suggestions, law norms and their absence. It was directed to protect the feudal formation, but it also includes some moral advices to them, too, calling them to limit their dictatorship. This Law book was used beginning with XIII century in both Greater Armenia and Cilicia.
It was also used in Poland, by order of king Sigismund the Old, as the law under which the Armenians of Lvov and Kamianets-Podilskyi lived from 1519 until the region fell under Austrian rule in 1772.
In XVIII it was added to the compilation of laws by Vakhtang, in structure of which it was used also when Georgia was annexed by Russian Empire.
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published: 2006-01-01 00:00:00
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