Lithuania Ascending

Etukansi
Cambridge University Press, 6.3.2014 - 416 sivua
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. Chapters are devoted to the types of sources used, to the religion of the ancient Balts (and the discovery of a pagan temple in Vilnius in the late 1980s), and to Lithuanian relations and wars with Poland and the Germans. Under Grand Duke Gediminas, Lithuania came to control more of Russia than the prince of Moscow.
 

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Central and eastern Europe 12901320 I
1
Sources
26
An introduction to Lithuanian political
49
The expansion of Lithuania
82
S Political ramifications of the pagan cult
118
The metropolitanate of Lithuania
149
Pagans peace and the Pope 132224
189
The harshest Realpolitik
229
ΙΟ Factors contributing to the formation of the Grand
289
Russian sources for the Fall of Kiev
305
Manuscript sources
315
Index
361
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