Shota Matitashvili

I am a historian of late antique and early medieval Georgia. My research interests lie in the early Georgian Christianity, political and social history of late antique and early medieval Georgia (mainly, the kingdoms of Lazica and Iberia), relations of Georgia with the neighbouring countries (Armenia, Albania, Byzantine empire, Sasanian Persia and etc.). I have published several articles on the various aspects of late antique Georgian history both in English and Georgian, and one book about the beginnings of the Georgian monasticism (in Georgian).