Professeur Thamar Otkhmezuri Korneli Kekelidze National Centre of Manuscripts (Tbilisi, Georgia))

Thamar Otkhmezuri is a Senior Research Fellow at Korneli Kekelidze National Centre of Manuscripts (Tbilisi, Georgia). Her work focuses on the study of the problems of Georgian-Byzantine literary relations, the publication of Old Georgian ecclesiastic texts. She participated in the international project: The Critical Edition of the Works of Gregory of Nazianzus (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 1990-2005). She edited several works on the Georgian translations of the commentaries on writings by Gregory the Theologian; among her monographs is: Pseudo-Nonniani in IV orationes Gregorii Nazianzeni commentarii. Versio iberica (Corpus Christianorum. Series Graeca, 50. Corpus Nazianzenum, 16), Turnhout - Leuven, 2002.

She has published articles in both Georgian and foreign periodicals on the problems of the literary activities of medieval Georgian scholars, Georgian monastic centres in Christian East and Byzantium, Old Georgian translation tradition, etc. She also studies Greek materials preserved in Georgia, namely, old Greek manuscripts and inscriptions.

The teaching mission of professor Otkhmezuri will take place from 30 April 30 to 5 May.

Cycle de cours

3 May 2018, 2.30 pm - 5.30pm, Room D243

• Illuminating the East from the Holy Mountain: The Athonite School in Medieval Georgian Literary Tradition
• From Liturgical Collections to Scholarly Manuscripts: 11th-13th cc. Georgian Boo

Ouvert à tous. Les leçons seront données en anglais.

Info : bernard.coulie@uclouvain.be