High Medieval Georgia - Bibliography & Sources List

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A hopefully useful guide which I'm going to build up over time - more will be added soon.

This bibliography is intended to cover what I define as Georgia's central, or high, medieval period - the eleventh to early thirteenth centuries - though this definition is broad, and for example papers whose primary focus is an earlier period but which may be useful to cover the historiography, or papers about a later period which include good summaries of elements of this period in their background details, may also be included. Its current focus is primarily towards secular literature and secondary historical material, especially that published in English, though this may develop if more people are able to contribute to it.

The subdivisions by thematic topic are broad and rather arbitrary, and may shift over time (religious or at least theological history in particular may well warrant its own subsection). It should be recognised that many of these areas overlap heavily - for example, an improved chronology for the archbishops of Kartli obviously has a religious topic, but it is also of narrative importance and senior clergy were absolutely political figures in this period. Intellectual history is meanwhile so heavily intertwined with religious history that the separation of the two has relatively little meaning. Nonetheless, some sort of division has to be attempted to make a large bibliography of this kind useable, and that is what has been attempted - users should as a result be unsurprised if the text they want is not in the first subsection they consider.

Abbreviations
PHIJSU = ივანე ჯავახიშვილი სახელობის თბილისი სახჰელმწიფო უნივერსიტატის საქართველოს ისტორიის ინსტიტუტის შრომები (Proceedings of the Institute of History, Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi)
KKNMC = Korneli Kekelidze National Manucript Centre of Georgia



IN ENGLISH

Primary Works

CHRONICLES

Kartlis Tskhovreba, A History of Georgia, trans. Gamq'relidze D., Abashidze M., and Chant'uria A., foreword Metre'veli R., edited by Stephen Jones. Artanuji Publishing, Tbilisi 2013.

LITERATURE

The Knight in Panther's Skin
The Man in Panther's Skin - trans. Wardrop M., 1912 translation, available at http://www.sacred-texts.com/asia/mps/index.htm
The Knight in Panther's Skin - trans. Vivian K., Folio Society, 1977

MANUSCRIPT ALBUMS & SOURCE HANDLING
Chkhik'vadze, N. (Ed.), Georgian Manuscript, KKNMC, Tbilisi, 2014.
Chkhik'vadze, N. (Ed.), trans. Mirianashvili, The Georgian Manuscript Book Abroad, KKNMC, Tbilisi, 2018.

Secondary Works

GENERAL OVERVIEWS
Lordkipanidze, M., trans. Skivirsky, D., Georgia in the XI-XII Centuries, Ganatleba Publishers, Tbilisi, 1987
Muskhelishvili D., Samsonadze M., and Daushvili A., Georgian History, Nova Publishers, New York, 2012. See chs. 11-15 for the High Medieval period.
Rayfield, D., Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia, Reaktion Books, London, 2012.

POLITICAL HISTORY
Baillie J., 'Tamar's Lions: A Digital Approach to 12th Century Georgia', Diogenes Issue 6. (2016)
Peacock A., 'Georgia and the Anatolian Turks in the 12th and 13th Centuries', Anatolian Studies, Vol. 56 (2006), pp. 127-146

ECONOMICS & NUMISMATICS
Gabashvili, M., 'International trade coordination of Christian and Islamic worlds on basis of numismatic materials, Xth-XIIIth CC.', in 38th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (Ankara, 2009).

SOCIAL & CULTURAL
Chkhvimiani J., 'Gravestones with Georgian Inscriptions from the High Medieval Period at Dmanisi, Georgia', K'admosi VII (2015).
Karaia I., 'Archaeological and Other Medical Materials from Georgian Museums', Research on History of Medicine 1(2), (2012) 25-36

RELIGIOUS AND THEOLOGICAL HISTORY

ART HISTORY
Chikhladze, N., 'Images of St Eugenios in Georgia and Cultural and Political Ties with the Empire of Trebizond', Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences Vol 2 (1), December 2009
Eastmond, A., Royal Imagery in Medieval Georgia, Penn State University Press, 1997.
Gogonaia I, Kekelia V. (Eds.), The Repousse Metal Covers of Georgian Manuscripts, 2nd edition, KKNMC, Tbilisi, 2019.
Mepisashvili, R., Tintadze, V., trans. Jaffa, A., The Arts of Ancient Georgia, Thames & Hudson, London, 1979.

LITERATURE AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Aleksidze, N. 'The murder at Mount Kangar: The oral narratives of the Caucasian 'Schism'' in Tradition and Transformation: Dissent and Consent in the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 3rd CEMS International Graduate Conference, Solivagus-Verlag, Kiel (2016). Available here.
Aleksidze, N. The narrative of the Caucasian Schism : memory and forgetting in medieval Caucasia, Peeters, Leuven 2018.
Khintibidze Z., 'Compositional function of the Circe-myth in Greek-Roman, Medieval European and Georgian epic traditions: Typological similarity or literary reception?', Phasis 10.2 (2007)
Nikolaishvili S., 'Byzantine Imperial ideology and political thinking: model for the 12th century Georgian Kingship', Phasis 13-14, (2010-11).
Rayfield D., The Literature of Georgia: A History, Routledge, London/New York 1994.
Tarkhnishvili T., 'The Argonautica and Ancient Mythology in Medieval Georgia', Phasis 10.2 (2007)
Tcheishvili G., 'Georgian Perceptions of Byzantium', in Eastmond (ed.) Eastern Approaches to Byzantium (Aldershot, 2001)

ARCHAEOLOGY AND MONUMENTS


IN GEORGIAN
Works with an English summary text include *** after the entry.

Primary Works

TEXT DATABASES
TITUS database, Old Georgian texts:
http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/framee.htm?/texte/texte2.htm#georgant
TITUS database, Middle Georgian texts:
http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/framee.htm?/texte/texte2.htm#georgmed

INSCRIPTION COMPILATIONS
Kldiashvili, D., Skhirtladze, Z. (Eds.), გარეჯის ეპიგრაფიკული ძეგლები (The Inscriptions of Gareja), Vol. I, Georgian Academy/KKNMC, Tbilisi, 1999.***

Secondary Works

GENERAL OVERVIEWS AND SOURCE HANDLING

POLITICAL HISTORY
Bakhtadze, M., '"დარბაზი" არსებობის საკიხვისთვის XI-XIV საუკუნეების საქართველოში' (Towards issue of existence of "Darbazi" in Georgia in 11th-14th centuries), PHIJSU XII, Tbilisi, 2017.***
Bakhtadze, M., 'რამდენი ათასი ყივჩაღი გადმოასახლა დავიდ აღმეშენებელმა საქართველოში' (How many thousand Kipchaks were settled in Georgia by David the Builder), PHIJSU XI, Tbilisi, 2016.***
Surguladze, M. (Ed.), ცენტრალურა და ადგილობრივი ლამოხელეო წყობა შუა საუკუნეების საქართველოში (Central and Local Official Order in Medieval Georgia), KKNMC, Tbilisi, 2017.***
Samushia, J. 'ქართული პარლამენტარიზმის სათავეებითან (ყუთლუ-არსლანი)' (At the origins of Georgian Parliamentarianism (Q'utlu-Arslan)), PHIJSU X, Tbilisi, 2016.***
Tavadze L. 'პროტოსტრატორი VIII-XII საუკუნეების ბიზანტიასა და საკართველოში' (Protostrator in Byzantium and Georgia, 8th-12th Centuries), PHIJSU XI, Tbilisi, 2016.***

ECONOMICS & NUMISMATICS
Ch'anishvili, E., 'დავით აღმეშენებელი არაბულენოვანი მონეტის გარე წარწაერა' (The coins of David IV with the Arabic legends), PHIJSU XII, Tbilisi, 2017.***
Chikobava, A., Dundua, T., 'მონეტა, როგორც პროპაგანდის საშუალება (ქართული ნუმიზმატიკური ძეგლების მიხედვით)' (Coins as a means of propaganda (according to Georgian numismatics)), PHIJSU X, Tbilisi, 2016.***
Chikobava, A., Dundua, T., 'მონეტა, როგორც პროპაგანდის საშუალება (XII-XVIII საუკუნეების ქართული ნუმიზმატიკური ძეგლების მიხედვით)' (Coins as a means of propaganda (according to 12th-18th century Georgian money)), PHIJSU XI, Tbilisi, 2016.***
Tabuashvili, A., 'ხორბლის ფასი ფეოდალური ეპოქის საქართველოში' (Wheat Prices of the Feudal Epoch in Georgia), PHIJSU XIII, Tbilisi, 2018.***

SOCIAL & CULTURAL

RELIGIOUS AND THEOLOGICAL HISTORY
Shaorshadze M. 'ქართლის მთავარეპისკოპოსთა ქრონოლოგიური რიგი XII-XIII საუკუნეების' (Chronological Sequence of Kartli Archbishops, 12th to 13th Centuries), PHIJSU XI, Tbilisi, 2016.***

ART HISTORY

LITERATURE AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

ARCHAEOLOGY AND MONUMENTS


IMAGE RESOURCES

Manar al-Athar Oxford Archive, Georgia theme section:
http://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk/dams/pages/themes.php?lastlevelchange=1&theme=Georgia%20%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A7