Late Antique Historiography

Conversion of K‛art‛li

Title(s):
  • Conversion of K‛art‛li
  • მოქცევაჲ ქართლისაჲ
    (Mok‛ts‛evay k‛art‛lisay, Conversion of K‛art‛li (Iberia, Georgia))
Author:
Period covered:
4th c.
Language:
Georgian
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
The Conversion of K‛art‛li is transmitted exclusively in the similarly-named ecclesiastical corpus Mok‛ts‛evay k‛art‛lisay (Mok‛c‛evay k‛art‛lisay, Moktseva Kartlisa). A parallel account of K‛art‛li's (Iberia's) royal Christianization is conveyed in Rufinus, Ecclesiastical history I.10-11.
Edition - Translation:
  • I. Abuladze (1963) (ed.) Dzveli k‛art‛uli agiograp‛iuli literaturis dzeglebi. Volume One. Tbilisi: 83-91.
  • B. Gigineishvili, E. Giunashvili (1979) (ed.) Shatberdis krebuli X saukunisa: Dzveli k‛art‛uli mtserlobis dzeglebi. Volume One. Tbilisi: 321-324.
  • C. Lerner (2004) The wellspring of Georgian historiography: The early medieval historical chronicle The conversion of K’art’li and the Life of St. Nino. London: 140-146.
  • S.H. Rapp, P. Crego (2012) 'The conversion of K‛art‛li: The Shatberdi variant (Kek.Inst. S-1141)'. In: Languages and cultures of Eastern Christianity: Georgian (The worlds of Eastern Christianity 300-1500, 5), ed. S. Rapp - P. Crego. Farnham, UK: 105-161 = Rapp, S. - Crego, P. (2006) 'The conversion of K‛art‛li: The Shatberdi variant (Kek.Inst. S-1141)'. Le muséon 119.1-2: 169-226.
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Bibliography:
  • S.H. Rapp (2003) Studies in medieval Georgian historiography: Early texts and Eurasian contexts (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 610: Subsidia, 113). Leuven.
  • S.H. Rapp (2014) The Sasanian world through Georgian eyes: Caucasia and the Iranian commonwealth in late antique Georgian literature. Farnham: 105-165.
  • M. Tarchnishvili (1955) Geschichte der kirchlichen georgischen Literatur. Città del Vaticano: 87-88.
  • C. Toumanoff (2012) 'Medieval Georgian historical literature (VIIth-XVth Centuries)'. In: Languages and cultures of Eastern Christianity: Georgian (The worlds of eastern Christianity 300-1500, 5), ed. S. Rapp - P. Crego. Farnham, UK: 287-291 = Toumanoff, C. (1943) 'Medieval Georgian historical literature (VIIth-XVth Centuries)'. Traditio 1: 149-153.