IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 207: Georgian History and Literature
Monday 3 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University |
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| Organiser: | Bert Beynen, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Temple University, Philadelphia |
| Moderator/Chair: | Bert Beynen, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Temple University, Philadelphia |
| Paper 207-a | Giorgi Saakadze in Georgian and Soviet Historiography: Hero or Anti-Hero? (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Paper 207-b | Reconstructing Tamar's Lions: Digital Approaches to the Court of Tamar (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography |
| Abstract | Kiknadze analyzes the career of Giorgi Saakadze, a controversial statesman who tried to keep the early Georgian state from disintegrating, possibly by first becoming a Shi'ite, then a Sunni. Kiknadze surveys writings on Saakadze by Georgian, Armenian, and European (Catholic missionaries) historians and proposes an explanation of Saakadze's personality and the times in which he lived. Baillie will discuss problems and outline potential digital humanities solutions to examining the cultural diversity of the court of Tamar of Georgia (r. 1184-1213). His paper will present some brief exemplar analysis of ethnonyms and mentions of particular figures, and discuss related issues and potential pitfalls with representing Georgian chronicle material in a data-driven format. It will then move on to discuss the future possibilities of digital approaches, especially improved prosopographical databases and accompanying analytical tools, to the challenge of reconstructing the 12th century Bagrationid court and system of government. |