Introduction; 1. Central and eastern Europe, 1290–1320; 2. Sources; 3. An introduction to Lithuanian political and economic history before 1315; 4. The expansion of Lithuania; 5. Political ramifications of the pagan cult; 6. The Metropolitanate of Lithuania; 7. Pagans, peace, and the pope, 1322–84; 8. The harshest realpolitik; 9. 1339–45: endings and beginnings; 10. Factors contributing to the formation of the Grand Duchy; Appendices.
This book, first published in 1994, studies the rise of a pagan state in late medieval Christendom against a background of crises in Europe.
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dramatic developments of this crucial period in the history of east
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rise of pagan Lithuania during the rule of Grand Duke Gediminas,
with attention given also to the reigns of his predecessor Vytenis
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medieval Russia and East Central Europe." Jean W. Sedlar, American
Historical Review
"He [Rowell] has utilized the archives of ten different countries
and an astounding array of published primary sources,
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institutional, and human characters, so that the reader does not
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western language." International History Review
"This superb book is a major contribution to the history of
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region, and the countries and peoples that make it up, within a new
and informed comparative perspective. In exceptionally clear and
polished prose, it weaves together political, dynastic, economic,
diplomatic, and ecclesiastical history to trace and explain the
rise of the Jogaila dynasty to Christianity and the series of
unions with Poland that followed in the late fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries. The book...is, above all else, astonishingly
learned." Piotr Górecki, Speculum
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