Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345

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Cambridge University Press, 5 мая 1994 г. - Всего страниц: 375
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
21
Sources
26
An introduction to Lithuanian political and economic history before 1315
49
The expansion of Lithuania
82
Political ramifications of the pagan cult
118
The metropolitanate of Lithuania
149
Pagans peace and the Pope 132224
189
The harshest Realpolitik
229
133945 Endings and beginnings
263
Factors contributing to th formation of the Grand Duchy
289
Russian sources for the fall of Kiev 132223
305
List of Orthodox hierarchs 12831461
312
Manuscript sources
315
Bibliography
318
Index
361
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