| Between Rome and Byzantium: The Golden Age of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's Political Culture. Second Half of the Fifteenth Century to First Half Contributor(s): Kiaupiene, Jūrate (Author) |
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ISBN: 1644691469 ISBN-13: 9781644691465 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $132.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Baltic States - History | Modern - 17th Century - History | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 947.93 |
| LCCN: 2019030622 |
| Series: Lithuanian Studies Without Borders |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.25 lbs) 278 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Baltic - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The focus of this book is the unique socio-political and socio-cultural community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the golden age of the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century. This study analyses the cultural and political impact of the values disseminated in the newly created state, such as the concept of the state itself, its governance, representation, laws, and other elements of the socio-political system. Through theoretical and factographic arguments, this book demonstrates that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a social, political, and cultural link between geopolitical and geo-cultural spaces of the Roman West and the Byzantine East. Located at the cultural crossroads of Europe, Lithuania was an ethnically diverse, multilingual, multi-faith, multicultural national space. Nurtured by international contacts, its political system developed rapidly, influencing the formation of geopolitical and geo-cultural mentality of the whole Central Eastern European region. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kiaupiene, Jūrate: - Jūrate Kiaupiene was educated at the University of Vilnius, and was a senior research officer of the Institute for Lithuanian History in Vilnius and a professor of Vytautas the Great University (Kaunas). The focus of her research is the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Her publications include: "Mes Lietuva". Lietuvos Didziosios Kunigaikstystes bajorija XVI a. (viesasis ir privatus gyvenimas) (2003); The History of Lithuania before 1795 (edited, 2000); and Lietuvos istorija, vol. 4 and 5 (2009, 2013). |