Royal Imagery in Medieval Georgia
Author: Antony Eastmond
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780271043913
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Royal Imagery in the Medieval Kingdom of Georgia 786-1213
Royal Imagery in the Medieval Kingdom of Georgia, 786-1213
Kʻartʻlis cʻxovreba
Saint George Between Empires
Author: Heather A. Badamo
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2023-08-25
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0271095946
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines Saint George’s intertwined traditions in the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and Transcaucasia, demonstrating how rival conceptions of this well-known saint became central to Crusader, Eastern Christian, and Islamic medieval visual cultures. Saint George Between Empires links the visual cultures of Byzantium, North Africa, the Levant, Syria, and the Caucasus during the Crusader era to redraw our picture of interfaith relations and artistic networks. Heather Badamo recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of images and literature—from etiquette manuals and romances to miracle accounts and chronicles—to describe the history of Saint George during a period of religious and political fragmentation, between his “rise” to cross-cultural prominence in the eleventh century and his “globalization” in the fifteenth. In Badamo’s analysis, George emerges as an exemplar of cross-cultural encounter and global translation. Featuring important new research on monuments and artworks that are no longer available to scholars as a result of the occupation of Syria and parts of Iraq, Saint George Between Empires will be welcomed by scholars of Byzantine, medieval, Islamic, and Eastern Christian art and cultural studies.
Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium
Cultural Interactions in Medieval Georgia
Author: Michele Bacci
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783954903382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English summary: Situated between the mountain ranges of the Caucasus, the country of Georgia was constantly exposed to contacts with both nearby cultures and such far-away realities as the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Europe. Constant political changes, including relations to and occupations by the neighboring empires of Byzantium and the Seljuks, make the region a prime example for the investigation of the dynamics of artistic exchange during the medieval period. This volume re-approaches the impressive material legacy from the medieval period in Georgia with a variety of new methodological approaches. The ten articles in this volume discuss, among others, general questions of cultural interaction, analyze the relation of liturgy and artistic objects, reexamine famous monuments and present a wide range of unpublished material. German description: Zwischen den Bergketten des Kaukasus gelegen, stand Georgen stets im Kontakt sowohl mit benachbarten Kulturen als auch mit weit entfernten Gebieten wie der Levante und Westeuropa. Stetige politische Umbruche, darunter Beziehungen zu und Eroberungen durch die benachbarten Reiche der Byzantiner und Seldschuken, machen die Gegend zu einem Vorzeigebeispiel fur das Studium der Dynamiken kunstlerischen Austausches im Mittelalter. Dieser Band nahert sich den immensen materiellen Zeugnisse aus dieser Periode in Georgien wieder an, unter Verwendung einer Auswahl neuer methodischer Zugange. Die zehn Beitrage des Bandes besprechen, unter anderem, Fragen kultureller Interaktion, untersuchen die Zusammenhange zwischen Liturgie und Kunstwerken; unterziehen bekannte Monumente einer neuen Betrachtung und stellen eine breite Auswahl bislang unpublizierten Materials vor.
Tamta's World
Author: Antony Eastmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-20
Total Pages: 750
ISBN-13: 1316739171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noblewoman named Tamta in the thirteenth century. Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in marriage to nephews of Saladin after her father was captured during a siege. She was later raped and then married by the Khwarazmshah and held hostage by the Mongols, before being made an independent ruler under them in eastern Anatolia. Her tale stretches from the Mediterranean to Mongolia and reveals the extraordinary connections across continents and cultures that one woman could experience. Without a voice of her own, surviving monuments - monasteries and mosques, caravanserais and palaces - build up a picture of Tamta's world and the roles women played in it. The book explores how women's identities changed between different courts, with shifting languages, religions and cultures, and between their roles as daughters, wives, mothers and widows.
Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography
Author: Stephen H. Rapp
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9789042913189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Original literature first appeared among the indigenous population of Caucasia in the fifth century AD as a consequence of its Christianization. Though a number of Armenian histories were composed at this time, several centuries elapsed before the Georgians created their own. But how many centuries? Through a meticulous investigation of internal textual criteria, Studies in Medieval Georgian Historiography challenges the traditional eleventh-century dating of the oldest Georgian narrative histories and probes their interrelationships. Illuminating Caucasia's status as a cultural crossroads, it reveals the myriad Eurasian influences - written and oral, Christian and non-Christian - on these "pre-Bagratid" histories produced between the seventh and the ninth century. Eastern Georgia's place in the Eurasian world and its long-standing connection to the Iranian Commonwealth are specially highlighted. This volume also examines several related historical and historiographical problems of the early Bagratid period and supplies critical translations of six early Georgian histories previously unavailable in English. Dr. Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. is Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, Atlanta (USA), and is the Founding Director of its Program in World History and Cultures.
Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries)
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-01-31
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 900451158X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →(The open access version of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.) The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scène of the rulers’ bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media. Contributors are Michele Bacci, Nicolas Bock, Gerardo Boto Varela, Branislav Cvetković, Sofia Fernández Pozzo, Gohar Grigoryan Savary, Elodie Leschot, Vinni Lucherini, Ioanna Rapti, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Marta Serrano-Coll, Lucinia Speciale, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Mirko Vagnoni, and Edda Vardanyan.
