Creating an ‘Orthodox’ past: Georgian Hagiography and the construction of a denominational identity
dc.contributor.author | Loosley, E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-23T08:40:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-11-28 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the early Middle Ages, Georgia consisted of two kingdoms. The western part was called Egrisi by the local inhabitants, and Lazica by the Byzantines and to the east of the Likhi range of mountains was Kartli, known as Iberia to outsiders. Egrisi was ruled from Constantinople for much of this period with vassal overlords, but Kartli was harder to control and its leaders often played the Byzantine and Persian Empires off against each other in order to maintain some autonomy over their territories. Until the early seventh century Kartli was under the religious jurisdiction of the Armenian Catholicos and officially non-Chalcedonian (miaphysite), but at the Council of Dvin in 610 the Kartvelians rejected Armenian ecclesiastical authority and declared an autocephalous Georgian Church. This new Church joined the Chalcedonian fold and accepted the authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople. One of the defining events of Georgian ecclesiastical history is the arrival of the Thirteen (As)Syrian Fathers in Kartli in the sixth century. The vitae of these shadowy figures and their origins and doctrinal beliefs are still rigorously disputed today. The information given (or deliberately obscured) in eighth and ninth century accounts of the (As)Syrian Fathers is crucial for our understanding of how Kartvelian confessional identity evolved and was conflated with ideas of Kartvelian nationhood. This paper will explore the construction of Kartvelian national identity through the lens of ecclesiastical history and examine how past events, in particular the narrative of the (As)Syrian Fathers, were deliberately obfuscated in the quest to create an ‘Orthodox’ past. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Commission | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Council | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | ERC | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 10, pp. 61-71 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1553/medievalworlds_no10_2019s61 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | FP7/2007-2013 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 312602 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/39302 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Austrian Academy of Sciences Press | en_GB |
dc.rights | Open access under the Creative‐Commons‐Attribution NonCommercial‐NoDerivs 4.0 Unported (CC BY‐NC‐ND 4.0) | |
dc.subject | Georgia | en_GB |
dc.subject | Egrisi/Lazica | en_GB |
dc.subject | Kartli/Iberia | en_GB |
dc.subject | Thirteen (As)Syrian Fathers | en_GB |
dc.subject | monophysite | en_GB |
dc.subject | miaphysite | en_GB |
dc.subject | dyophysite | en_GB |
dc.title | Creating an ‘Orthodox’ past: Georgian Hagiography and the construction of a denominational identity | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-23T08:40:32Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2412-3196 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Austrian Academy of Sciences Press via the DOI in this record | |
dc.identifier.journal | Medieval Worlds | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-10-22 | |
exeter.funder | ::European Commission | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-10-22 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-10-22T21:15:52Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-02-14T12:25:08Z | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
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