The Making of "K'art'lis c'xovreba", the So-Called Georgian Chronicles
In the Georgian milieu, historical writing is intimately tied to the creation and transmission of literary compendia. Georgian literature was enabled by the open Christianization of the fourth and fifth centuries, especially the invention of a Georgian script and subsequent writing of original hagio...
| Subtitles: | Techniques of compilation in late ancient and medieval historiography |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
[2017]
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| In: |
Sacris erudiri
Year: 2017, Volume: 56, Pages: 465-488 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
K̕art̕lis c̕xovreba
/ Georgia
/ Georgisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
/ Historiography
/ History 500-1300
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAA Church history KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KBK Europe (East) KDF Orthodox Church |
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| Summary: | In the Georgian milieu, historical writing is intimately tied to the creation and transmission of literary compendia. Georgian literature was enabled by the open Christianization of the fourth and fifth centuries, especially the invention of a Georgian script and subsequent writing of original hagiographies. But Christianization was not identical to Romanization/Byzantinization. Accordingly, the earliest Georgian historiography looked not to Christian or Romano-Byzantine models but rather emulated - and was an expression - of the Iranian epic tradition. Since the Iron Age Caucasia’s principal socio-cultural orientation looked towards Persia/Parthia/Iran, not the Graeco-Roman Mediterranean. This essay investigates the origin of Georgian historiography in late antiquity and emphasizes the genre’s profound connections to the Iranian Commonwealth. Here, history and myth freely commingled, and such narratives (once oral traditions were consigned to writing) were constantly made and remade, thus encouraging their transmission as literary compilations. The potential role of the eleventh-century archbishop Leonti Mroveli in the formation of K'art'lis c'xovreba is reconsidered, as is the comprehensive re-editing of the corpus in the medieval and early-modern epochs. |
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| Item Description: | Seite 393-393: Einleitung "Techniques of compilation in late ancient and medieval historiography" edited by P. Van Nuffelen, E. Delacenserie, P. Manafis in diesem Heft |
| ISSN: | 2295-9025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sacris erudiri
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.SE.5.114781 |