Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part I Regional Contexts: Caucasia and Byzantium, Cyril Toumanoff; Unity and diversity in medieval Caucasia, 4th-11th centuries, Nina GarsoAan and Bernadette Martin-Hisard; The Chronicle of Hippolytus (of Rome) and the Georgian historian Leonti Mroveli, Korneli Kekelidze. Part II Christianization and Conversion: The Conversion of K'art'li: the Shatberdi Variant (Kek.Inst. S-1141), Stephen H. Rapp Jr and Paul Crego; St George and the Moon-God, Ivane Javaxishvili. Part III The Making of a 'National' Church:The place of Jerusalem in The Conversion of K'art'li, Michel van Esbroeck; The origin and development of the ecclesiastical autocephaly of Georgia, Michael Tarchnishvili. Part IV Martyrs, Monks and Ascetics: Martyrs, and martyria in the Gareja desert, Zaza Skhirtladze; From Tao-Klarjet'i to Athos: Georgian monks and socio-political realities, 9th-11th centuries, Bernadette Martin-Hisard; The role of Athos in the history of Georgian culture, Elene Metreveli. Part V Historiographical Literature: Four recensions of the 'Conversion of Georgia' (comparative study), Zaza Alexidze; Medieval Georgian historical literature 7th-15th centuries, Cyril Toumanoff. Part VI Kings, Queens, and Royal Authority: From Bumberazi to Basileus: writing cultural synthesis and dynastic change in medieval Georgia (K'art'li), Stephen H. Rapp Jr; Royal renewal in Georgia: the case of Queen Tamar, Antony Eastmond; Georgia in the reign of Giorgi the Brilliant (1314-1346), D.M. Lang; Index.
