Pagans in the early modern Baltic

Titel: Pagans in the early modern Baltic : sixteenth-century ethnographic accounts of Baltic paganism / edited and translated from Latin by Francis Young
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Veröffentlicht: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2022
Umfang: vi, 181 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9781641894371
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • p. ix
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • The Historical Context: The Late Medieval and Early Modern Baltic Region
  • p. 2
  • Baltic Paganism
  • p. 7
  • The Christianization of the Baltic
  • p. 10
  • Gods or Spirits?
  • p. 14
  • The Reformation and Vernacular Culture
  • p. 17
  • Early Modern Ethnography
  • p. 19
  • Interpretative Traditions: interpretatio Christiana and interpretatio Romano
  • p. 24
  • The Texts
  • p. 27
  • Conclusion: Baltic Pagans in Global Context
  • p. 32
  • Editor's Note
  • p. 35
  • Translator's Note
  • p. 37
  • Texts and Translations
  • 1
  • Cosmographia Pii Papae in Asiae et Europae eleganti descriptione
  • p. 38
  • 1
  • The Cosmography of Pope Pius II in an Elegant Description of Europe and Asia
  • p. 39
  • 2
  • Historiae Polonicae
  • p. 44
  • 2
  • Polish Histories
  • p. 45
  • 3
  • Vita et mores Sbignei cardinalis
  • p. 62
  • 3
  • The Life and Manners of Cardinal Zbigniew
  • p. 63
  • 4
  • Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis Asiana et Europeana et de contentis in eis
  • p. 66
  • 4
  • Treatise on the Two Asian and European Sarmatias and on Those Things Contained in Them
  • p. 67
  • 5
  • De Borussiae antiquitatibus libri duo
  • p. 74
  • 5
  • Two Books on the Antiquities of the Prussians (1518)
  • p. 75
  • 6
  • Catechismusa prasty szadei
  • p. 80
  • 6
  • Simple Words of Catechism (1547) [Pastoral Preface]
  • p. 81
  • 7
  • De moribus Tartarorum, Lituanorum et Moschorum
  • p. 86
  • 7
  • On the Customs of the Tatars, Lithuanians, and Muscovites
  • p. 87
  • 8
  • Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio
  • p. 100
  • 8
  • A Description of Sarmatian Europe
  • p. 101
  • 9
  • Libellus de sacrificiis et idolatria veterum Borussorum, Livonum, aliarumque vicinarum gentium
  • p. 114
  • 9
  • Little Book on the Sacrifices and Idolatry of the Old Prussians, Livonians, and Other Neighbouring Peoples
  • p. 115
  • 10
  • De diis Samagitarum caeterorumque Sarmatarum, et falsorum Christianorum
  • p. 130
  • 10
  • On the Gods of the Samogitians, of the Other Sarmatians, and of the False Christians
  • p. 131
  • Bibliography
  • p. 165
  • Lithuanian Summary / Santrauka
  • p. 171
  • Index
  • p. 173