The volume contains contributions dedicated to the person and the work of Shalva Nutsubidze and his scholarly interests: the Christian Orient from the fifth to the seventh century, the Georgian eleventh century, the Neoplatonic philosopher Ioane Petritsi and his epoch and Shota Rustaveli and mediaeval Georgian culture. Among the articles are a new edition and translation of the original Georgian authorâs Preface to the lost Commentary on the Psalms by Ioane Petritsi and the editio princeps with an English translation of an epistle of Nicetas Stethatos (eleventh century), whose Greek original is lost.
The traditions of Georgian mediaeval thought are considered in their historical context within the Byzantine Commonwealth and are traced in both philosophy and poetry.
Cornelia B. Horn, Ph.D. (2001), Dr. phil. habil. (2011) is a Senior Researcher at the University of Tübingen and a Research Fellow at The Catholic University of America. Author of Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine: The Career of Peter the Iberian (Oxford, 2006).
Shalva Nutsubidze and His World
Selected Bibliography of Shalva Nutsubidzeâs Scholarly Works
Tamara Nutsubidze â Shalva Nutsubidze: From Alethology to Neoplatonism.
Demur Jalaghonia â Alethology as the First Philosophy
Ioane Petritsi and His Time
Lela Alexidze â One in the Beingsâ and âOne within Usâ: Basis of the Union with the One in Ioane Petritsiâs Interpretation of Proclusâ Elements of Theology
Levan Gigineishvili â On Ioane Petritsiâs Preface to His Commented Translation of the Book of Psalms [with the first English tr. and a new edition of the Georgian text]
Damana Melikishvili â Ioane Petritsi and John Italus on Two Original Causes
Maia Raphava â Georgian Translations of Nicetas Stethatosâs Epistles (According to Arsen Iqaltoeliâs Dogmatikon) [with the editio princeps of a letter lost in Greek].
Shota Rustaveli and Georgian Culture
Elguja Khintibidze â Towards Rustaveliâs Place in Medieval European-Christian Thought
Maka Elbakidze, Irma Ratiani â Shota Rustaveliâs Romance The Knight in the Pantherâs Skin in the Context of European Chivalric Romance: An Anthropological Approach
Mikheil Makharadze â Philosophical Ideas of the Corpus Areopagiticum in âThe Knight in the Pantherâs Skinâ
N. Doborjgenidze â Religious Inculturation and Problems of Social History of the Georgian Language
Adam McCollum â The Application of Thought to Language Learning: An Experiment in the Study of Old Georgian.
All interested in the cultures of the Christian Orient and mediaeval Georgian culture in particular, the history of Neoplatonic philosophy, Shota Rustaveli and Georgian epic poetry.