Publication details
Pozdně antická Gruzie: Orien Oder Rom?
| Title in English | The Late Antique Georgia |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
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| Description | The Late Antique and medieval Georgia is traditionally seen as a cultural "province" of the Byzantine Commonwealth. This situation is largely determined by the historiography of the end of the XIX century. During this period, Georgia was part of the Russian empire and the court scholars tried to present the country’s history in the role, it has at the end of the XIX century – it means as a periphery. The research on Late Antique architecture and on the fragments of preserved decoration shows, on the contrary, that the quality of the Georgian production - a bridge between East and West – didn’t lag behind the centers as Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople. On the periphery of the political realm, there was a real cultural center. |