Vol. 17 (2024): Contemporary Issues of Literary Criticism Literatures of Small Countries and Challenges of the Modern Global World
World Literature and National Literatures

Smaller Nation at a Service of World Culture (Again About the Reasons of Renaissance Origination)

Gocha Kuchukhidze
vane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature

Published 2024-12-20

Keywords

  • Dionysus the Areopagite,
  • Peter the Iberian,
  • renaissance,
  • რენესანსი

Abstract

There is the need to focus again on the theory of Shalva Nutsubidze and Ernest Honigmann, according to which, the author of Areopagitic books is Peter the Iberian, Georgian philosopher of 5th century; according to Nutsubidze, Areopagitics is the movement that has become one of the bases of origination of Renaissance.
Basically, Georgia is regarded as the country that accepted cultural achievements of the other countries and it is less known for its contribution to the world culture. The above is one of the examples to illustrate that this view requires revision...