The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature
"Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly held to be later productions devoid of historical value. As a result, scholarship outside the Republic of Georgia has privileged Graeco-Roman and even Armenian narratives. However, when investigated within the dual contexts of a regiona...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly held to be later productions devoid of historical value. As a result, scholarship outside the Republic of Georgia has privileged Graeco-Roman and even Armenian narratives. However, when investigated within the dual contexts of a regional literary canon and the active participation of Caucasia's diverse peoples in the Iranian Commonwealth, early Georgian texts emerge as a rich repository of Late Antique attitudes and outlooks. Georgian hagiographical and historiographical compositions open a unique window onto a northern part of the Sasanian world that, while sharing striking affinities with the Iranian heartland, was home to vibrant, cosmopolitan cultures that developed along their own trajectories. In these sources, precise and accurate information about the core of the Sasanian Empire--and before it, Parthia and Achaemenid Persia--is sparse; yet the thorough structuring of wider Caucasian society along Iranian and especially hybrid Iranic lines is altogether evident. Scrutiny of these texts reveals, inter alia, that the Old Georgian language is saturated with words drawn from Parthian and Middle Persian, a trait shared with Classical Armenian; that Caucasian society, like its Iranian counterpart, was dominated by powerful aristocratic houses, many of whose origins can be traced to Iran itself; and that the conception of kingship in the eastern Georgian realm of K'art'li (Iberia), even centuries after the royal family's Christianisation in the 320s and 330s, was closely aligned with Arsacid and especially Sasanian models. There is also a literary dimension to the Irano-Caucasian nexus, aspects of which this volume exposes for the first time. The oldest surviving specimens of Georgian historiography exhibit intriguing parallels to the lost Sasanian Xwaday-namag, The Book of Kings, one of the precursors to Ferdowsi's Shahnama. As tangible products of the dense cross-cultural web drawing the region together, early Georgian narratives sharpen our understanding of the diversity of the Iranian Commonwealth and demonstrate the persistence of Iranian and Iranic modes well into the medieval epoch"--From publisher's website |
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| contents | Introduction: Contexts -- Part I. Hagiographical texts -- The vitae of Susanik and Evstati -- The Nino cycle -- Part II. Historiographical texts -- Early historiography and its corpora -- The Life of the kings -- The Life of the successors of Mirian -- The Life of Vaxtang Gorgasali -- Ps.-Juanser's continuation -- Epilogue: Hambavi Mep'et'a and Sasanian Caucasia -- Appendix I: Terminological note -- Appendix II: Table of Georgian literary sources for the Sasanian era -- Appendix III: Table of K'art'velian kings and presiding princes until the end of the Sasanian Empire -- Appendix IV: Table of Mihranid Bidax'es of Somxiti-Gugark -- Appendix V: Table of Sasanian [Shahanshahs] |
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| spelling | Rapp, Stephen H. Verfasser (DE-588)114716553X aut The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature Stephen H. Rapp Jr Farnham, Surrey, England Ashgate [2014] 2014 1 Online-Ressource (540 pages) illustrations, facsimiles txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on print version record Introduction: Contexts -- Part I. Hagiographical texts -- The vitae of Susanik and Evstati -- The Nino cycle -- Part II. Historiographical texts -- Early historiography and its corpora -- The Life of the kings -- The Life of the successors of Mirian -- The Life of Vaxtang Gorgasali -- Ps.-Juanser's continuation -- Epilogue: Hambavi Mep'et'a and Sasanian Caucasia -- Appendix I: Terminological note -- Appendix II: Table of Georgian literary sources for the Sasanian era -- Appendix III: Table of K'art'velian kings and presiding princes until the end of the Sasanian Empire -- Appendix IV: Table of Mihranid Bidax'es of Somxiti-Gugark -- Appendix V: Table of Sasanian [Shahanshahs] "Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly held to be later productions devoid of historical value. As a result, scholarship outside the Republic of Georgia has privileged Graeco-Roman and even Armenian narratives. However, when investigated within the dual contexts of a regional literary canon and the active participation of Caucasia's diverse peoples in the Iranian Commonwealth, early Georgian texts emerge as a rich repository of Late Antique attitudes and outlooks. Georgian hagiographical and historiographical compositions open a unique window onto a northern part of the Sasanian world that, while sharing striking affinities with the Iranian heartland, was home to vibrant, cosmopolitan cultures that developed along their own trajectories. In these sources, precise and accurate information about the core of the Sasanian Empire--and before it, Parthia and Achaemenid Persia--is sparse; yet the thorough structuring of wider Caucasian society along Iranian and especially hybrid Iranic lines is altogether evident. Scrutiny of these texts reveals, inter alia, that the Old Georgian language is saturated with words drawn from Parthian and Middle Persian, a trait shared with Classical Armenian; that Caucasian society, like its Iranian counterpart, was dominated by powerful aristocratic houses, many of whose origins can be traced to Iran itself; and that the conception of kingship in the eastern Georgian realm of K'art'li (Iberia), even centuries after the royal family's Christianisation in the 320s and 330s, was closely aligned with Arsacid and especially Sasanian models. There is also a literary dimension to the Irano-Caucasian nexus, aspects of which this volume exposes for the first time. The oldest surviving specimens of Georgian historiography exhibit intriguing parallels to the lost Sasanian Xwaday-namag, The Book of Kings, one of the precursors to Ferdowsi's Shahnama. As tangible products of the dense cross-cultural web drawing the region together, early Georgian narratives sharpen our understanding of the diversity of the Iranian Commonwealth and demonstrate the persistence of Iranian and Iranic modes well into the medieval epoch"--From publisher's website Sassanids Historiography Sassanids History Sources Georgian literature History and criticism Hagiography History and criticism Georgian language To 1100 Texts Georgisch (DE-588)4124679-2 gnd rswk-swf Historische Literatur (DE-588)4160008-3 gnd rswk-swf Geschichtsschreibung (DE-588)4020531-9 gnd rswk-swf Kaukasusländer (DE-588)4448813-0 gnd rswk-swf Iran Altertum (DE-588)4072922-9 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4135952-5 Quelle gnd-content Sassaniden, Randkulturen (DE-2581)TH000003484 gbd Georgisch (DE-2581)TH000005637 gbd Iran Altertum (DE-588)4072922-9 g Kaukasusländer (DE-588)4448813-0 g Georgisch (DE-588)4124679-2 s Historische Literatur (DE-588)4160008-3 s Geschichtsschreibung (DE-588)4020531-9 s DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rapp, Stephen H. Sasanian world through Georgian eyes : Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2014] 9781472425522 |
| spellingShingle | Rapp, Stephen H. The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature Introduction: Contexts -- Part I. Hagiographical texts -- The vitae of Susanik and Evstati -- The Nino cycle -- Part II. Historiographical texts -- Early historiography and its corpora -- The Life of the kings -- The Life of the successors of Mirian -- The Life of Vaxtang Gorgasali -- Ps.-Juanser's continuation -- Epilogue: Hambavi Mep'et'a and Sasanian Caucasia -- Appendix I: Terminological note -- Appendix II: Table of Georgian literary sources for the Sasanian era -- Appendix III: Table of K'art'velian kings and presiding princes until the end of the Sasanian Empire -- Appendix IV: Table of Mihranid Bidax'es of Somxiti-Gugark -- Appendix V: Table of Sasanian [Shahanshahs] Sassanids Historiography Sassanids History Sources Georgian literature History and criticism Hagiography History and criticism Georgian language To 1100 Texts Georgisch (DE-588)4124679-2 gnd Historische Literatur (DE-588)4160008-3 gnd Geschichtsschreibung (DE-588)4020531-9 gnd |
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| title | The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature |
| title_auth | The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature |
| title_exact_search | The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature |
| title_exact_search_txtP | The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature |
| title_full | The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature Stephen H. Rapp Jr |
| title_fullStr | The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature Stephen H. Rapp Jr |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature Stephen H. Rapp Jr |
| title_short | The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes |
| title_sort | the sasanian world through georgian eyes caucasia and the iranian commonwealth in late antique georgian literature |
| title_sub | Caucasia and the Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian literature |
| topic | Sassanids Historiography Sassanids History Sources Georgian literature History and criticism Hagiography History and criticism Georgian language To 1100 Texts Georgisch (DE-588)4124679-2 gnd Historische Literatur (DE-588)4160008-3 gnd Geschichtsschreibung (DE-588)4020531-9 gnd |
| topic_facet | Sassanids Historiography Sassanids History Sources Georgian literature History and criticism Hagiography History and criticism Georgian language To 1100 Texts Georgisch Historische Literatur Geschichtsschreibung Kaukasusländer Iran Altertum Quelle |
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