Medievalists.net » Georgia http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Indigenous Christians of the Arabic Middle East in an Age of Crusaders, Mongols, and Mamlūks (1244-1366) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/the-indigenous-christians-of-the-arabic-middle-east-in-an-age-of-crusaders-mongols-and-mamluks-1244-1366/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/02/the-indigenous-christians-of-the-arabic-middle-east-in-an-age-of-crusaders-mongols-and-mamluks-1244-1366/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:03:07 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37697 The chronological period of study is highlighted by the usurpation of the Ayyūbid-ruled Sultanate by the Baḥrī Mamlūks, while the two most important political-military events in the region were the collapse of the Crusader States and the invasion of the Mongols. This thesis will examine how events impacted on the nine Christian Confessions, treating each separately.

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brought by this ferocious cycle of warfare.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/08/caucasia-and-the-first-byzantine-commonwealth-christianization-in-the-context-of-regional-coherence/feed/ 0 Georgian Sources http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/21/georgian-sources/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/21/georgian-sources/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:33:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24342 Georgian Sources By Stephen H. Rapp Jr. Proceedings of the British Academy, No.132 (2007) Introduction: The eviction of the Muslims, the annihilation of the ‘barbarians’, the pacification of the Seljuk sultan and the Byzantine emperor: such is the bold assessment of Georgia’s condition in the time of the crusades by the biographer of the Georgian […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/21/georgian-sources/feed/ 0 Real and imagined feudalism in highland Georgia http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/04/real-and-imagined-feudalism-in-highland-georgia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/04/real-and-imagined-feudalism-in-highland-georgia/#comments Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:58:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=16535 Real and imagined feudalism in highland Georgia By Kevin Tuite Amirani, Vol.7 (2002) Introduction: During the 8th-9th centuries, a system of land tenure and political organization that has been described as “feudal” arose in the Transcaucasus. As in Western Europe, Georgian feudalism was characterized by (1) the hierarchical and personal relation between vassal and lord […]

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