The research has complex goals. It aims to reconstruct historical, lexicographic, philological and sociopolitical aspects of Catholic inculturation in Georgia according to recently discovered Georgian and foreign (Italian, French, Latin and Russian) sources.
Digital prosopographical approach will be used to document sources and process and examine them from different perspectives. A structured database, which is a useful tool for reconstructing historical events and social groups associated with them, will be set up. Which institutions, social groups and individual did they interact with and how did they influence the latter? What role did the missionaries play as envoys of King Erekle II to Europe’s highest secular and religious authorities?  17th- and 18th-century accounts, containing microhistories of Georgian and European Catholics, will be studied by using prosopographical approach and network analysis, along with Carlo Ginzburg’s methodology of microhistory.    
The effect of Georgian-language liturgy, bilingual dictionaries and religious literature on the social history of the Georgian language, especially in the period of Russification, is one of the most underexplored issues, despite its being an important aspect of Catholic inculturation in Georgia.. Hitherto unknown primary sources relating to the daily social and cultural life of the missionaries and their interaction with local social groups, including religious literature created by foreigners in Georgia, will also be prepared for publishing.
These sources are important for the study of the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity, early stage and semantics of modernity, along with manifold processes that unfolded in Georgia during the 18th-19th  centuries. They provide a detailed account of the reforms conducted by King Erekle II, which led to the formation of the manufacturers and merchants’ communities, setting up of an army of mercenaries, relations with western sovereigns with a view to modelling the country’s army and economy according to European fashion. Erekle II’s economic and strategic visions will be studied based on the methodological concepts relating to the emergence of semantics of modernity in the Middle Ages The sources of Catholic missions are interesting from the global history research point of view. Circulation of knowledge between Catholics and locals will be studied in this light.
The project output will be important for studying the identity of various Catholic orders and groups active in Georgia and highlighting their role in the history of the country. In this regard, we plan to engage the Catholic community and the dedicated academic and research institutions.