As is well known, this method did not work for Saint George. Their method was to eliminate later accretions and so proceed back to the original authentic core. When the material was studied assiduously at the beginning of the century, the main concern of scholars in hagiography was to establish what was historically exact in the Life of a saint2. In my Tbilissi paper, I was particularly concerned with the Lives of Saint George. In any case, my own contribution would need to be updated, although I would still consider my main point to be valid: some sort of comparative, structural method is necessary for the study of Saint George. It seems now unlikely that the complete acts of the symposium will ever be published. The organisers had the intention of publishing all the papers given, and, in fact, two volumes did appear in 1989 '. At the fourth international symposium on Georgian art, held in Tbilissi in May 1983, I presented a paper entitled "Le culte, les légendes et l'iconographie de saint Georges, un projet de recherche".
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