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Book SynopsisThe 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 author’s 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.
Table of ContentsShalva Nutsubidze and His World Selected Bibliography of Shalva Nutsubidze’s Scholarly Works Tamara Nutsubidze – Shalva Nutsubidze: From Alethology to Neoplatonism. Demur Jalaghonia – Alethology as the First Philosophy Epoch of the Corpus Areopagiticum Christopher Haas – Geopolitics and Georgian Identity in Late Antiquity: the Dangerous World of Vakhtang Gorgasali Cornelia Horn – Transgressing Claims to Sacred Space: The Advantage of the Portability of Relics in the Christological Conflicts in Syria-Palestine in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries CE Tuomo Lankila – The Corpus Areopagiticum and Proclus’ Divine Interface Basil Lourié – Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite: An Approach to the Intensional Semantics David Shengelia – The Author of the Scholia to the Doctrina Patrum Youhanna Nessim Youssef – Severus of Antioch as Canonist in the Copto-Arabic Tradition Alexander Toepel – Zur Bedeutung der Begriffe ‚Hypostase‘ und ‚Prosopon‘ bei Babai dem Großen Ioane Petritsi and His Time Lela Alexidze – One in the Beings’ and ‚One within Us’: Basis of the Union with the One in Ioane Petritsi’s Interpretation of Proclus’ Elements of Theology Levan Gigineishvili – On Ioane Petritsi’s 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 – Ioane Petritsi and John Italus on Two Original Causes Maia Raphava – Georgian Translations of Nicetas Stethatos’s Epistles (According to Arsen Iqaltoeli’s Dogmatikon) [with the editio princeps of a letter lost in Greek]. Shota Rustaveli and Georgian Culture Elguja Khintibidze – Towards Rustaveli’s Place in Medieval European-Christian Thought Maka Elbakidze, Irma Ratiani – Shota Rustaveli’s Romance The Knight in the Panther’s Skin in the Context of European Chivalric Romance: An Anthropological Approach Mikheil Makharadze – Philosophical Ideas of the Corpus Areopagiticum in “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” N. Doborjgenidze – Religious Inculturation and Problems of Social History of the Georgian Language Adam McCollum – The Application of Thought to Language Learning: An Experiment in the Study of Old Georgian.
