IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 547: Mining Georgian Manuscripts and Chronicles
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi |
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| Organiser: | Bert Beynen, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Temple University, Philadelphia |
| Moderator/Chair: | Irina Lobzhanidze, Linguistic Research Centre, Ilia State University, Tbilisi |
| Paper 547-a | Treasures from Oxford University's Online Wardrop Collection (Language: English) Index terms: Bibliography, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 547-b | Subject Marking in Medieval Georgian: The Georgian Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 547-c | The High Medieval Eristavi: Local Lord or Royal Representative? (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Other |
| Abstract | The papers in this session show various ways in which Georgian manuscript collections are used for scholarly purposes: Lobzhanidze surveys the Wardrop Collection at Oxford University's Bodleian library and highlights the many rare and unpublished materials that are of interest for scholars worldwide. Berikashvili analyzes the Georgian Chronicles, a collection of Georgian manuscripts, to reveal how grammatical subjects were differentiated in medieval Georgian in comparison with modern Georgian. Baillie uses a digital humanities approach in combination with more traditional source readings of the Georgian Chronicles to decide how best to characterise Georgia's provincial officials: as lords with their own power bases or as court appointees. He thereby contributes to a wider picture of the socio-political history of high medieval Georgia. Elbakidze argues that Rustaveli created a new and very specific understanding of love or mijnuroba, which bears a clear imprint of Persian love poetry and epic, but received in his poem an absolutely new interpretation. |