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Wellspring of Georgian Historiography:
The Early Medieval Historical Chronicle
'The Conversion of Kartli' and 'The Life of St. Nino' | | |
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with introduction, commentary and indices by Constantine B. Lerner |
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This is a new study and
translation of The Conversion of Kartli, a remarkable account of how Christianity
came to Eastern Georgia and how it was adopted by King Mirian as the state religion
around 337 AD. Included is a separate history within the Chronicle: The Life of
St. Nino, an intimate portrait of the woman whose beliefs converted a kingdom.
– 240 pages, Illustrated with maps
Published
by Bennett and Bloom, 2004 |
THE
WELLSPRING OF GEORGIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
Contents
Preface
PART I
Introduction
1.Description of the two recensions
and a bibliographical survey
—On the origin of the Chelishi Collection
2. Structure of the manuscrip0t and its place in Georgian historiography
3.
Textual differences between the two recensions
—Lexical and stylistic
differences
—The baptism of Queen Soji
4. Chronological layers in
The Life of St Nino
—Kinship
with the Patriarch of Jerusalem
—Sara Miapor
—The probable origin
of St Nino
—Parentage of St Nino
—A
plausible reconstruction of the layers
—Absolute dating of the ancient
layer in The Life of St Nino
5. Historical survey of the Jewish community
in Mtskheta
—Waves of migration
—Intellectual life of the community
6. Plausible authorship of the ancient layer and formation of the entire composition
7. The problem of the substrate language of the ancient layer
8. The social
status of St Nino in Mtskheta
9. Etymology of the name of the ancient Georgian
capital Mtskheta
10. An Old Hebrew Romance of Alexander as one of the sources
for The Chronicle
—Alexander's invasion of Kartli
—Pompey's invasion
of Iberia/Afriqi
—Cartinia/Kartli
—K(a)cia/Kcia
—Azo/Ason
—Arik/Artag
—The
battle with the 'Wild Beasts'
—The march to the 'Land of Hagar'
—The
last stage of Pompey's campaign
—Feasible basis for confusion
—Legend
of the city of Tbilisi
PART II
Translation of The Conversion
of Kartli
Bibliography
Index of personal names
Commentary on
the index of personal names
Index of ethnic and geographic names
Commentary
on the index of ethnic and geographic names
Index |
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