Late Antique and Medieval Georgia: A Colloquium

Late Antique and Medieval Georgia: A Colloquium lead image

Jvari Monastery, Mtsketa

Late Antique and Medieval Georgia: A Colloquium, Ertegun House, Oxford, June 19–20, 2015

Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity Colloquium

The Colloquium is free, but those wishing to attend must book a place.

Papers:

What is Georgian about Georgian Art?
Antony Eastmond (Courtauld, London)

Georgia and the Christian Caucasus
Robert Thomson (Oxford)

Donors and their Images in Medieval Georgia
Zaza Skhirtladze (Tbilisi State University)

The Cult of Saints and Political Rhetoric in Medieval Georgia
Nikoloz Aleksidze (Oxford)

The Architecture of Tao-Klarjeti (Medieval Southwest Georgia) and its (inter-)national Reception in Medieval and Modern Times
Markus Bogisch (University of Copenhagen)

The Question of a pre-Renaissance in 12th–13th-century Georgia: Petritsi and the ‘Knight in the Panther’s Skin’
Levan Gigineishvili (Ilia University, Tbilisi)

Religious Tolerance (and Occasional Intolerance) in Medieval Georgia
Donald Rayfield (Queen Mary, London)

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