Late Antique Historiography

Continuation of The life of Vakhtang Gorgasali

Title(s):
  • Continuation of The life of Vakhtang Gorgasali
Author:
Period covered:
522-786
Language:
Georgian
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Secular history (general)
Remarks:
Pseudo-Juansher's continuation of The Life of Vakhtang (Vaxtang) is exclusively preserved in the historiographical corpus K‛art‛lis ts‛khovreba (variants K‛art‛lis c‛xovreba, Kartlis Tskhovreba). It forms the second component of the corpus' suite Ts‛khorebay vakhtang gorgaslisa (C‛xorebay vaxtang gorgaslisa, Tskhovreba Vakhtang Gorgaslisa). Most scholars conflate the two distinct components of Ts‛khorebay vakhtang gorgaslisa into a single text attributed to Juansher Juansheriani.
There also exists an Armenian version.
The work commences with Vakhtang's son and successor Dach‘i (r. 522-534) and concludes with the reign of the prince and martyr-to-be St. Archil (r. 736-786).
Edition - Translation:
  • I. Abuladze (1998) (ed.) 'K‛art‛lis ts‛khovrebis dzveli somkhuri t‛argmani'. In: K‛art‛lis c‛xovreba: The Georgian royal annals and their medieval Armenian adaptation. Two Volumes, ed. S. Rapp. Delmar (NY) = Abuladze, I. (1953) (ed.) K‛art‛lis ts‛khovrebis dzveli somkhuri t‛argmani [=Patmut‛iwn Vrats‛]. Tbilisi: 186-203.
  • S. Jones (2014) (ed.) Kartlis Tskhovreba: A history of Georgia. Tbilisi: 105-114.
  • R. Metreveli (2008) (ed.) K‛art‛lis ts‛khovreba. Tbilisi: 221-244.
  • S. Qaukhch‛ishvili (1955) (ed.) K‛art‛lis ts‛khovreba. Volume One. Tbilisi: 204-244.
  • R.W. Thomson (1996) Rewriting Caucasian history: The medieval Armenian adaptation of the Georgian chronicles, the original Georgian texts and the Armenian adaptation (Oxford Oriental monographs). Oxford: 223-250.
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Bibliography:
  • I. Javakhishvili (1977) Dzveli k‛art‛uli saistorio mtserloba (V-XVIII ss.). Tbilisi.
  • 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: 331-351.
  • 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: 307-309 = Toumanoff, C. (1943) 'Medieval Georgian historical literature (VIIth-XVth centuries)'. Traditio 1: 169-171.
  • C. Toumanoff (1963) Studies in Christian Caucasian history. Washington, D.C.