Georgian Christian Thought in Context

Brill just sent me a fascinating collection of essays about a small Orthodox country whose patriarch-catholicos has long impressed me, viz., Georgia. The book, a collection of scholarly essays, is Georgian Christian Thought and Its' Cultural Context: Memorial Volume for the 125th Anniversary of Shalva Nutsubidze (1888-1969) (Brill, 2014), 387pp.

Edited by Tamar Nutsubidze, Cornelia B. Horn, and Basil Lourié, with the Collaboration of Alexey Ostrovsky, this book, the publisher tells us,

contains contributions dedicated to the person and the work of Shalva Nutsubidze and his scholarly interests: the Christian Orient from the fifth to the seventh century, the Georgian eleventh century, the Neoplatonic philosopher Ioane Petritsi and his epoch and Shota Rustaveli and mediaeval Georgian culture. Among the articles are a new edition and translation of the original Georgian author’s Preface to the lost Commentary on the Psalms by Ioane Petritsi and the editio princeps with an English translation of an epistle of Nicetas Stethatos (eleventh century), whose Greek original is lost. The traditions of Georgian mediaeval thought are considered in their historical context within the Byzantine Commonwealth and are traced in both philosophy and poetry.