TY - BOOK ID - 46201556 TI - Georgia : a cultural journey through the Wardrop collection PY - 2018 SN - 9781851244959 1851244956 PB - Oxford Bodleian Library, University of Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Manuscripts, Georgian KW - Wardrop, Marjory Scott, KW - Wardrop, John Oliver, KW - Bodleian Library KW - Georgian manuscripts KW - Uordropi, Oliver, KW - Wardrop, J. O. KW - Wardrop, Oliver, KW - Uordropi, Marjori, KW - Bodleian Library. KW - Oxford. KW - University of Oxford. KW - Bibliotheca Bodlejiana KW - Sifriyat Bodli KW - Bodlean Library KW - Bodleyanah KW - Sifriyat Bodleyanah KW - בודליאנה KW - ספריית בודלי KW - ספריית בודלי באוכספורד KW - ספריית בודליאנה KW - ספריית בודליין KW - ספרית הבודליאנה KW - Bodleian Libraries KW - The Bodleian Library KW - Oxford. University. Bodleian Library KW - University of Oxford. Bodleian Library KW - Wardrop, Marjory Scott, - 1869-1909 KW - Wardrop, John Oliver, - 1864-1948 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46201556 AB - "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. ER -