ERC Advanced Grant · 2020
The Development of Literacy in the Caucasian Territories
The development of specific alphabetic scripts in the context of Christianisation in the early 5th century CE meant the beginning of literacy and, by consequence, a decisive step towards independent statehood for three distinct ethnic groups in the Caucasus: Armenians, Georgians, and the so-called "Caucasian Albanians". While the former two developed their written heritage steadily until today, the literacy of the "Albanians" ended with the Arab conquest in about the 8th c., and only a few specimens of their language have survived, mostly in palimpsests detected in St Catherine’s Monastery on Mt Sinai. For Armenian and Georgian, too, only a limited number of original written texts have been…
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