عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
DK505.7 .R68 1994
DK505
.
7
.
R68
1994
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
052145011X
(Number (ISBN
9780521450119
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
dltt
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Lithuania ascending :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
a pagan empire within east-central Europe, 1295-1345 /
First Statement of Responsibility
S.C. Rowell.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1994.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxi, 375 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill., maps ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
Volume Designation
4th ser., 25
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-360) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. Central and eastern Europe, 1290-1320 -- 2. Sources -- 3. An introduction to Lithuanian political and economic history before 1315 -- 4. The expansion of Lithuania -- 5. Political ramifications of the pagan cult -- 6. The metropolitanate of Lithuania -- 7. Pagans, peace and the Pope, 1322-24 -- 8. The harshest Realpolitik -- 9. 1339-45: Endings and beginnings -- 10. Factors contributing to the formation of the Grand Duchy -- Appendix 1: Russian sources for the Fall of Kiev, 1322-23 -- Appendix 2: List of Orthodox hierarchs, 1283-1461.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
From 1250 to 1795 Lithuania covered a vast area of eastern and central Europe. Until 1387 the country was pagan. How this huge state came to expand, defend itself against western European crusaders and play a conspicuous part in European life are the main subjects of this book.
Text of Note
The book has relevance to the expansion of the Church and Empire between the ninth and eleventh centuries. The rise of the new ruling elites in the fourteenth century familiar to French and English historians has its counterpart in Bohemia, Poland, Rus', and in Lithuania, although centralising forces were very weak, thus contributing to the strength of the later Polish-Lithuanian Republic of the Two Nations. Sources are used from across Europe, from Ireland and Spain to the Caucasus.
Text of Note
The emergence of pagan Lithuania is presented against the background of the political and religious crises of fourteenth-century Byzantine and Catholic Christendom. An attempt is made to show how the Lithuanians manipulated their position on the commercial, denominational and colonial frontier to maintain an expanding dominion in the face of Polish, Teutonic and Rus'ian opposition. It questions the mirage of the 'age of faith' as the 'age of totalitarian Christian Europe'.
Text of Note
The use of 'literary', 'mythological' chronicles is analysed. Reliance on non-literary sources has also proved necessary. The lack of extensive Lithuanian documentation requires a focus on all sides of international affairs: a desideratum which is usually missing from western studies.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Lithuania, History, To 1569.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
947/
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5
Edition
20
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
DK505
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7
Book number
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R68
1994
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Rowell, S. C.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20130501104519.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
