George the Hagiorite into a vibrant center of Georgian Orthodox culture. At some point between 1052 and 1057, George left his fellow monk George of Oltisi in charge of the Iviron monastery, and set off to Antioch to appear before the Patriarch to defend his brethren, accused by a group of the Greek clerics of heresy. The dispute quickly evolved around the canonical legality of the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox church, which had originally operated within the framework of the see of Antioch, but had been becoming increasingly independent since the 6th century. In defense of the Georgian autocephaly, George was referring
The Dancers at the End of Time also common, but most residents of the End of Time find leaving the planet distasteful and clichéd. The title of the series is itself taken from a poem by a fictitious 19th Century poet, Ernest Wheldrake, which Mrs. Amelia Underwood quotes in "The End of All Songs". "Ernest Wheldrake" had been a pseudonym used by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The original trilogy ("An Alien Heat", "The Hollow Lands", and "The End of All Songs") was published between 1972 and 1976. The trilogy purports to tell the last love story in human history. Other stories in this sequence include "The Transformation of