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Georgia : a cultural journey through the Wardrop collection
- Title
- Georgia : a cultural journey through the Wardrop collection / Nikoloz Alekside.
- Author
- Aleksidze, Nikoloz, 1987-
- Publication
- Oxford : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018.
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 18-1232 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 147 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- Summary
- "When Marjory Wardrop joined her diplomat brother, Oliver, in Georgia in 1894, they found themselves witnessing the birth pangs of a modern nation. Recognising the significance of these transformative years, they actively participated in the work of Ilia Chavchavadze and other leaders of the independence movement, culminating in Georgia's declaration of independence in 1918. Becoming increasingly fascinated by Georgian history and culture, the Wardrops gathered a significant collection of manuscripts dating from the eleventh to the twentieth century, including a seventeenth-century manuscript of Georgia's national epic poem, 'The Man in the Panther's Skin', which Marjory famously translated. A remarkable number of items in the collection, now housed at the Bodleian Library, illuminate an important aspect of medieval and modern Georgia. Through these items - manuscripts, royal charters, correspondence, notebooks and a draft of the 1918 declaration of Independence - Nikoloz Aleksidze narrates a history of Georgian literature and culture, from the importance of epic and folk tales, to the Georgian Church's battle against persecution, to the political activism of women in Georgia at the end of the nineteenth century."--Jacket flap.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index.
- Call Number
- JFF 18-1232
- ISBN
- 1851244956
- 9781851244959
- LCCN
- 2018404639
- OCLC
- 1007310554
- Author
- Aleksidze, Nikoloz, 1987- author.
- Title
- Georgia : a cultural journey through the Wardrop collection / Nikoloz Alekside.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-144) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 18-1232