Rewriting Caucasian History - The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of Georgian Chronicles. The

Zusatztext This is an excellent book, which I highly recommend ... this is the most fundamental work published to date ... This is the most precise translation available in any Western European language and as such will become the authoritative edition to which historians will refer ... In his introduction Thomson also provides a concise overview of both Georgian and Armenian history as well as their respective chronicle traditions. This acts as an admirably clear introduction to the history and culture of the Caucasus, which will aid all those unfamiliar with the region. Such a brief but up-to-date outline is not available elsewhere at the moment, which makes the work even more valuable. Klappentext After the invention of a national script c. AD 400, Armenians rapidly developed their own literary forms, drawing on foreign texts as well as their own traditions. Historical writing is the most original genre in classical and medieval Armenian literature. The collection known as the Georgian Chronicles ('Life of Georgia' in Georgian) was finally codified in the eighteenth century. It includes the most famous of the chronicles, though these form only a small part of Georgian historical writing. The thirteenth-century Armenian version is in fact the earliest attestation of this growing corpus of texts, pre-dating all extant Georgian manuscripts of it. This book presents the two texts, Georgian and Armenian, in English translation for the first time. The Introduction and Commentary draw attention to the ways in which the unknown Armenian translator changed his original material in a pro-Armenian fashion. His rendering became the standard source for early Georgian history used by later Armenian historians. The book includes a useful overview of the background to the chronicles, the history and culture of christian Georgia and Armenia, and their respective literatures. Zusammenfassung This is an annotated translation of the Christian Chronicles of Georgia, adapted by the Armenians in the 13th century. An important source for writers on Armenia after 1200, the Chronicles deal with the history of Georgia from the time of its mythical origins....

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• Authors: Robert W Thomson, Robert W. Thomson
• Assisted by: Robert W. Thomson (Editor), Robert W Thomson (Translation), Robert W. Thomson (Translation), Robert W. Thomson (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.1996
• EAN: 9780198263739
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826373-9
• No. of pages: 460
• Series: Oxford Oriental Monographs; Oxford Oriental Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Essays, Armenia, CE period up to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Literary essays, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval