Social and cultural relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania : microhistories
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Social and cultural relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania : microhistories
(Routledge research in early modern history)
Routledge, 2019
- : hbk
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Originated in a conference held on 21 March 2015, organized by the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was one of the largest and most linguistically, ethnically and religiously diverse polities in late medieval and early modern Europe. In the mid-1380s the Grand Duchy of Lithuania entered into a long process of union with the Kingdom of Poland. Since the destruction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, the history and memory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania have been much contested among its successor nations. This volume aims to excavate a level below their largely incompatible narratives. Instead, in an encounter with freshly discovered or long neglected sources, the authors of this book seek new understanding of the Grand Duchy, its citizens and inhabitants in "microhistories." Emphasizing urban and rural spaces, families, communities, networks, and travels, this book presents fresh research by established and emerging scholars.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: Urban Spaces and Communities 1. What's in a Name?: Conflict and the Common Weal, Unity and Diversity in the Early Modern City 2. A History of One House: The Microcosm of the Jurydyka of the Vilna Cathedral Chapter in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries 3. The Poor and the Community: The Lutheran Charitable System in Eighteenth-Century Wilna 4. A Town After a Fire: Losses and Behaviour of Jewish Communities 5. The Attempts of the Bernardines to Influence the Society of Kowno in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century: The Case of a Miraculous Image Part II: Families and Networks 6. Noble Names: Changes in Lithuanian Aristocratic Name-Giving during the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 7. The Sphragistics and Heraldry of Three Representatives of the Radziwill Family 8. Noblemen's Familia: The Life of Unfree People on Manors in the Sixteenth Century and the First Half of the Seventeenth Century 9. Noble Community and Local Politics in the Wilkomierz District During the Reign of Sigismund Vasa (1587-1632) 10. From Clientage Structure to a New Social Group: The Formation of the Group of Public Servants in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Late Eighteenth Century Part III: Texts and Travels 11. "An Earnest Gospeller" and "a Dignified Martyr": Networks of Textual Exchange between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and England, 1560s-1580s 12. Terrible Reality?: Cannibalism in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in Livonia in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries - Between Chroniclers' Invective and the Findings of Cultural Anthropology 13. A Lithuanian Nobleman's Mapping of Poland: The Itinerary of a Peregrination by Stanislaw Samuel Szemiot (1680) 14. Propaganda in the Parishes: Local Communication During the Insurrection of 1794 15. The Route Map of Dean Szymon Waraxa's Courier
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