Soselia, G. The Social and State System of Georgia According to The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Sakartvelos sazogadoebrivi da sakhelmtsipoebrivi tskobileba Vepkhistkaosnis mikhedvit). Sokhumi, 1956.

სოსელია, გ. საქართველოს საზოგადოებრივი და სახელმწიფოებრივი წყობილება ვეფხისტყაოსნის მიხედვით / გ. სოსელია.
სოხუმი: აფხაზეთის სახელგამი, 1956 (საქმთავარგამომც. სტ. ქ. სოხუმში).
232 გვ. ; 22 სმ.
ორიგინალური მუყაოს ყდა ქსოვილის ზურგით. ტირაჟი 2 000 ცალი.
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Soselia, G. Sakartvelos sazogadoebrivi da sakhelmtsipoebrivi tskobileba Vepkhistkaosnis mikhedvit [The Social and State System of Georgia According to The Knight in the Panther's Skin] / G. Soselia.
Sokhumi: Abkhazetis Sakhelgami [Abkhazian State Publishing House], 1956.
232 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher's original quarter cloth binding (paper boards with a cloth spine). Print run of 2,000 copies.
Binding : good : paper boards are clean with light age-toning, cloth spine remains firm with minor shelf wear at the ends. Text block : good : tight, complete, and structurally sound, pages uniformly toned due to paper stock.

This rare post-war academic monograph offers a detailed socio-political and legal analysis of medieval Georgia through the lens of Shota Rustaveli’s twelfth-century epic masterpiece, The Knight in the Panther's Skin (Vepkhistkaosni). Written by the scholar G. Soselia (Georgiy Kutievich Soselia), the study methodically dissects the societal structures, state apparatus, feudal hierarchies, and legal concepts embedded within the poem to reconstruct the historical reality of Georgia's Golden Age. The work explores fundamental themes such as the system of lord-vassal relations (patronqmoba), slavery and servitude, the societal status of women, concepts of friendship and courtly love, and the overarching legal and state organizations of the era. Published in Sokhumi by the Abkhazian State Publishing House (Abgosizdat / Abkhazetis Sakhelgami) in 1956, this volume represents a significant milestone in Soviet Rustavelian scholarship (vepkhistkaosniseba).