The Lithuanian Metrica
The Lithuanian Metrica

Author: Artūras Dubonis

Publisher: Academic Studies PRess

Published: 2021-01-26

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1644693771

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This volume analyzes the history of the Lithuanian Metrica—the chancellery books of the Lithuanian grand duke—from the formation of its books in the mid-fifteenth century until now. It reveals how the first Metrica books emerged in the second half of the fifteenth century, discussing the titles given to them in different periods in history, and explains why the Lithuanian Metrica should be considered the state archive of early Lithuania. Material hitherto unknown in academic literature about the fate of the Lithuanian Metrica at the end of the eighteenth century, in the last years of the existence of the joint Polish-Lithuanian state, is also revealed in this account. The book dedicates a great deal of attention to the history of the publication and research of the documents and books of the Lithuanian Metrica, which are now kept in Moscow, Russia, as a historical source.

Historical Dictionary of Lithuania
Historical Dictionary of Lithuania

Author: Saulius A. Suziedelis

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2011-02-07

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0810875365

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The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Lithuania will serve as a useful introduction to virtually all aspects of Lithuania's historical experience, including the country's relations with its neighbors. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.

Lithuania Ascending
Lithuania Ascending

Author: S. C. Rowell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1107658764

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This book, first published in 1994, studies the rise of a pagan state in late medieval Christendom against a background of crises in Europe.

Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries
Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th to 18th Centuries

Author: Peter Paul Bajer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9004210652

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In the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries a considerable number of Scots migrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Some sojourned there for some time, while others stayed permanently and exercised commercial business and crafts. The migration stopped in the eighteenth century, and the Scots who remained in Poland seem to have lost their ethnic identity. This book offers an examination and assessment of this migration: numbers of migrants; patterns of settlement; laws regulating Scottish presence in Poland-Lithuania; their commercial, academic, religious and military activities; their social advancement into the Polish nobility; their assimilation and then the eventual disappearance as a distinct ethnic group in Poland-Lithuania.

Archives in Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St.Petersburg
Archives in Russia: A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St.Petersburg

Author: Patricia Kennedy Grimsted

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 1624

ISBN-13: 1317476549

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This is a comprehensive directory and bibliographic guide to Russian archives and manuscript repositories in the capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is an essential resource for any researcher interested in Russian sources for topics in diplomatic, military, and church history; art; dance; film; literature; science; ethnolography; and geography. The first part lists general bibliographies of relevant reference literature, directories, bibliographic works, and specialized subject-related sources. In the following sections of the directory, archival listings are grouped in institutional categories. Coverage includes federal, ministerial, agency, presidential, local, university, Academy of Sciences, organizational, library, and museum holdings. Individual entries include the name of the repository (in Russian and English), basic information on location, staffing, institutional history, holdings, access, and finding aids. More comprehensive and up-to-date than the 1997 Russian Version, this edition includes Web-site information, dozens of additional repositories, several hundred more bibliographical entries, coverage of reorganization issues, four indexes, and a glossary.

The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, C.1500-1795
The Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy in European Context, C.1500-1795

Author: R. Butterwick

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-06-26

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0333993802

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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is often considered an 'aberration' where monarchy was reduced by the nobility to impotence, and which was consequently partitioned. However, historians' reappraisal of monarchy in early modern Europe calls for a reconsideration of the extent of Polish-Lithuanian 'divergence'. The essays of this collection assess the institution and idea of monarchy in one of Europe's largest and most neglected states. It will appeal to all those interested in early modern history.

The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania
The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania

Author: Dariusz Kolodziejczyk

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-06-22

Total Pages: 1135

ISBN-13: 9004191909

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Drawing on rich source material in several languages and three scripts (Arabic, Cyrillic, and Latin), this book presents a broad picture of international relations in early modern Eastern Europe, at the crossing point of Genghisid, Islamic, Orthodox, and Latin traditions.