Название: Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345
Автор: S. C. Rowell
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 1995
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 404
Размер: 18.9 Мб
Язык: English
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.