Social and Cultural Relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (eBook, PDF)

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Redaktion: Butterwick, Richard; Pawlikowska, Wioletta

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the complex and fascinating social, cultural and confessional relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (+1795) through close readings of newly discovered or long neglected sources, emphasizing urban and rural spaces, families, communities, networks and travels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429553394
• Artikelnr.: 56229632

Autorenporträt

Richard Butterwick is Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History at UCL-SSEES and holds the European Civilization Chair at the College of Europe, Natolin, Warsaw. Wioletta Pawlikowska is Researcher at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Radziwi
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 Wi
komierz 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 Stanis
aw 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