ABSTRACT
Of the three known pre-Bagratid historians, Ps.-Juanšer is chronologically nearest to the events he describes. Writing around the year 800, he begins with the Chosroid Dač‛i (r. 522-534), son and successor of Vaxtang, and addresses several moments marking Caucasia’s transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval epoch, including the last war between the Sasanian and Roman Empires, the breakdown of the Sasanian enterprise, and the meteoric expansion of the Arabs and Islam. Ps.-Juanšer also treats the initial phase of the interregnum before closing with St Arč‛il (r. 736-786), the Chosroid prince of Kaxet‛i. A dedicated hagiographical account of Arč‛il’s martyrdom immediately follows Ps.-Juanšer in K‛art‛lis c‛xovreba.1
