Khachkar

Khachkar Khachkar Author: Hamlet Petrosyan The book is based on the source study, archeological, historical-cultural and semantic analysis. It recreates the complete picture of culture of khachkars (Armenian cross-stones) and reveals the realities and complexities of national life and outlook that stipulated the formation, development and long existence of culture of khachkars. The main objective of the book is to restore the complete picture of the culture of khachkars (Armenian cross-stones) and reveal the realities and complexities of national life and world perception, which have stipulated the formation, development and long existence of that culture. This will be accomplished through source study, archaeological, historical, cultural, and semantic analyses. The whole Christian and specifically, Armenian environment of the formation of ideology and iconography of the cross is restored in detail in the investigation. Here are represented semantical analyses of early middle ages