Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction: Contexts. Part I Hagiographical Texts: The Vitae of Susanik and Evstat'i; The Nino Cycle. Part II Historiographical Texts: K'art'lis c'xovreba and the historiographical Mok'c'evay k'art'lisay; The Life of the Kings; The Life of the Successors of Mirian; The Life of Vaxtang Gorgasali; Ps.-Juanser's continuation. Epilogue: Hambavi mep'et'a and Sasanian Caucasia; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Stephen H. Rapp Jr is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA.

Reviews

’Rapp's writing is a pleasure to read...I expect that most readers will find themselves happily turning page to page as they follow the course Rapp has laid out... The book merits immediate attention from Kartvelologists, Armenologists, and Iranologists. More generally, historians of Late Antiquity east of Byzantium, especially at the time of the waning of Sasanian power, will find much of interest...’ SEHEPUNKTE