Giorgi Kavtaradze, PhD
Source-led historical research for the people
who publish, interpret and bring history to life.
Revised English edition
David of Tao and the Two Johns: The Georgian Hypothesis
118 pages · 19 illustrations · PDF
01 / Selected research
Manuscripts, evidence and connections.
Research with a life beyond the archive.
Documentary study · Georgian & English
954–1066 · 27 pages
Giorgi Kavtaradze examines eight documentary dossiers dated 954–1066, with Greek texts, translations, facsimiles and analysis of John the presbyter in Athonite and manuscript sources.
Monograph · English edition
David of Tao and the Two Johns: The Georgian Hypothesis
The revised English edition of Giorgi Kavtaradze’s illustrated monograph: documented Johns called presbyter, David of Tao, the two Johns and the Georgian hypothesis of the legend’s origins.
Research data
A structured historical research dataset
A structured body of biographical evidence connecting individuals, recorded facts, source references and places.
Explore the monograph, the new documentary study in Georgian and English, and the historical research dataset.
02 / The approach
Historical research begins with what can be established — and with the care to distinguish it from what can only be inferred.
Close reading, source criticism and editorial judgement connect specialist scholarship with the needs of publishers, documentary producers and cultural institutions.
Discover research services03 / The researcher
A historian working at the meeting point of the Caucasus, Byzantium and the medieval Black Sea world.
My practice combines archival research, paleography and historical geography with university teaching and academic editorial experience.
Scholarship in use
Reading access. Institutional collaboration.
Publication and adaptation rights.
Begin a conversation
A question, a manuscript, an archive.
Every collaboration begins with a clear brief.