GAREJULI MANUSCRIPT HARITAGE

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Literary school, Will-notes, The recipient, Customer, Manuscripts description

Abstract

David Gareji monastic complex occupied animportant place in the late feudal Georgian cultural life. In the 17th-18-th centuries it was the most prominent creative centre which vividly preserved and developed the cultural traditions of Georgian monasteries abroad and educational centers within the country. It compiled the activities defending and strengthening orthodox Christianity, devoting service to the native landand people, their promotion. In the 17th-18th centuries the monasteries were reduced by literary schools and moved to the feudal palaces.

David Gareji centre has adopted the problems that trouble Georgian people and tried to solve them. Church as the strong weapon of ideology and David Gareji centre as the active partofit, took to rouse national charge. Centre tried to stress the merits of those people who sacrificed them selves to faith and motherland. For this purpose, they began collecting manuscripts, copied, update. Documents of the XVIII century prove the Gareji Foundation was kept sacred, secular, scientific content manuscripts and establishing libraries. For carrying out this great national affair the main forces of this school were mobilized and especially Besarion Orbelishvili, as various sources confirm.

Besarion Orbelishvili was closely connected with David Gareji literary school, physically and ideologically. Besarion was the author, the scribe, the costomer. It is also clear from the manuscripts are protected py last will comments, Besarion Orbelishvili was also a teacher.

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Published

2019-06-20

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 22 (2019): GULANI (Linguistics, Literature Studies, History and Education)

Section

Literature Studies

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