CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Nikolaishvili, Sandro |
|---|---|
| Title | Byzantium and the Georgian World c. 900-1210: Ideology of Kingship and Rhetoric in the Byzantine Periphery |
| Summary | This dissertation had two goals. First, it studied cultural and political relations between the Byzantine empire and the Georgian world from 900-1210. The second and the main aim of this work was to offer for the first time a comprehensive study of Medieval Georgian kingship ideology and royal rhetoric, and the influence the Byzantine idea of kingship made on Georgian rulers’ literary and visual representation. The transmission and adoption of the Byzantine political culture in the Georgian world was a consequence of the long domination of Byzantium in the Caucasus. The dissertation compares the Georgian and Byzantine concepts of kingship in order to see the degree to which Byzantine imperial language and symbols of power were exploited in Medieval Georgia. |
| Supervisor | Daniel Ziemann |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/nikolaishvili_sandro.pdf |
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