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Medieval Iran and Georgia: Historical-Cultural Context and Tendencies of Georgian Renaissance

Helen Giunashvili

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Iranian-Georgian cultural contacts have a long history and deep roots. The Georgian culture, which was essentially Christian, adopted and originally transformed artistic achievements of the neighbouring Iran. These influences significantly touched all the spheres of the Georgian cultural life – literature, language, art and science. In XVI century a common national cultural-creative process started in Georgia, known as the “Georgian Renaissance”. National themes became prevalent in the literature of this period. Secular poetry was leading, were established new literary genres. Despite of the existed national-religious antagonism, the Renaissance literature exhibited great influence of Persian fictional forms, translations and additions of heroic and romantic poetry. Literary writings belonging to Persian munāzare genre (“discussion, debate”) were composed and progressively established as national creative works. Georgian scientific monuments created in Middle Ages, present rich sources for studying Persian-Georgian cultural ties, revealing the role of Georgian intellectuals, translators and “(re)interpreters” in the formation of scientific thought of that period, their elucidate aims as well as general trends of the whole Near Eastern cultural region’s development. Persian enriching influences were mostly revealed in Georgian Medieval miniatures, manuscripts’ illustration and ornamentation, which was connected with the epoch’s demands and artistic taste. The paper deals with essential issues of XVI century Iranian-Georgian cultural relations, in the light of Georgian handwritten monuments.
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hal-04412080 , version 1 (23-01-2024)

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Helen Giunashvili. Medieval Iran and Georgia: Historical-Cultural Context and Tendencies of Georgian Renaissance. Iran and the West: Converging Perspectives, Jul 2015, Warwick, British Virgin Islands. ⟨hal-04412080⟩
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