Twenty-first International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

Literature and culture in general are often based on certain paradigmatic cognition. The initial-binary in this case is the personification and symbolization of the event or object of the person. From this point of view, certain symbolization of a person is especially strong, when the fact comes from the activity and merits of the person. A literary text is even more powerful and motivated if the mentioned symbolization and refers to a person distinguished by historical mental, moral, or cognitive characteristics. Each of the mentioned signs is to some extent realized in a specific moral or imperative idea. We consider the personal and historical factors of the Georgian Queen Ketevan who lived in the 16th century, with these parameters. The life and religious merits of Queen Katevan became a kind of unprecedented and exemplary fact for the fight against coercion, colonial or totalitarian policies and disobedience, as well as for the protection of faith, opinion, conscience and finally the rights of women (on the basis of gender). The act of martyrdom of Queen Ketevan became the bearer of a historical mission for the Christian institution of the period not only in the Queen’s homeland, but also throughout the then Christian/Catholic space, in late medieval Europe, us the defense of moral and mental values. This fact has been reflected since the Baroque era in German (Andreas Griffius), French (Padre Ambrosio), Italian (Pietro de la Vella), Russian (Michael Sabinini) and Portuguese (Roberto Gulbekiani) theological, philosophical and artistic narratives.

Presenters

Tamar Paichadze
Professor, History of Modern and Medieval Literature and Literary Theory, Tbilisi State University of Ivane Javakhisvili, Tbilisi, Georgia

Nino Mindiashvili
Head of Doctoral Office, Professor, Doctoral Office, Caucasus International University, Georgia