Lithuanian Studies without Borders

The volume focuses on violence during the breakdown of East Central European states brought by one of the most violent periods in modern European history: from the start of the Great War in 1914 until 1923 when Europe, finally, achieved peace after a series of civil conflicts and interstate wars.

This book offers significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. In a balanced way reflecting upon past and present, tradition and modernity, individual and collective, the eight separate essays comprising the book present a condensed view of the popular Lithuanian culture and mentality.

This book elucidates the complicated relationship between religion and national consciousness in the modern world, shedding light on various cases in Central and Eastern Europe. Though those analyses, the authors show how religion, far from disappearing, strongly impacted on the emerging national consciousness.

The book presents an analysis of the history of the Lithuanian Metrica—the chancellery books of the Lithuanian grand duke—from its formation in the mid-fifteenth century until today. A great deal of new factographic material is revealed, offering new answers to traditional questions on the history of the Lithuanian Metrica and formulating new objectives for future researchers.

The focus of this book is the unique socio-political and socio-cultural community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. This ethnically diverse, multilingual, multi-faith, multicultural national space has had a great impact on the socio-political development of Central Europe.

This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national literatures acting not as copies of the Russian model, but as creators of a multidimensional literary space. The book proposes a reconsideration of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of literary field and discusses its functioning under communist rule.

This book deals with the spatial concepts that two erstwhile neighboring cultures, Lithuanian and German, associated with one physical space—a Lithuanian region in Prussia. Covering a period of five centuries, it explores how, when, and why these concepts have been developed and transformed regulating the spatial imagination of several generations.

This book deals with the spatial concepts of Lithuania and other geo-images that either “competed” in the nineteenth century with the term Lithuania or were of a different taxonomic level (Samogitia, Prussia’s Lithuania, Lithuania Minor, Poland, the Western Region, the Northwest Region, Lita/Lite, Belarus, East Prussia etc.).

Demonstrates how the experience of East-Central and Eastern Europe needs to be integrated into evolving scholarship on the world wars. Universal themes and subjects of art find specific expression. The case of Lithuania is revealed in its full significance for a modern European history of the impact of the age of the world wars.