Imedashvili, G. The Knight in the Panther's Skin and Georgian Culture (Vepkhist'q'aosani da kartuli k'ult'ura). First edition, 1968. In Georgian.

გაიოზ იმედაშვილი. ვეფხისტყაოსანი და ქართული კულტურა / შოთა რუსთაველის სახელობის ქართული ლიტერატურის ისტორიის ინსტიტუტი. პირველი გამოცემა.
თბილისი : გამომცემლობა „მეცნიერება", 1968. 431 გვერდი.
მაგარი ყდა. 22 სმ. ტირაჟი 3 000 ც.
მდგომარეობა ძალიან კარგი: მტკიცე და სუფთა ეგზემპლარი.
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Imedashvili, Gaioz. The Knight in the Panther's Skin and Georgian Culture / Shota Rustaveli Institute of History of Georgian Literature. First edition.
Tbilisi : "Metsniereba" Publishing House, 1968. 431 pp.
Hardcover. 22 cm. Print run of 3,000 copies.
Condition very good: firm and clean copy.

A significant academic monograph by the prominent Georgian literary scholar Gaioz Imedashvili (1906-1999), exploring the profound organic connection between Shota Rustaveli's twelfth-century epic poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" and the broader context of medieval Georgian culture. Published under the auspices of the Shota Rustaveli Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, this first edition represents a culmination of mid-century Soviet Georgian "Rustvelology" (Rustvelologia). Imedashvili meticulously analyzes the ideological, aesthetic, and philosophical underpinnings of the epic, situating Rustaveli's humanistic ideals within the cultural renaissance of the Georgian Golden Age during the reign of Queen Tamar. The author examines the poem's reflection of contemporary social realities, courtly culture, and its synthesis of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Issued in a relatively restricted academic print run of 3,000 copies, the monograph remains a fundamental reference text for scholars of medieval Caucasian literature.