Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1. The Lithuanian Metrica: The Concept, Term, and Archival Characteristics
• 2. The Grand Issue of the History of the Lithuanian Metrica—the Appearance of the Books (until the Late Sixteenth Century)
• 3. The Chancellery of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Metrica in the Fifteenth–First Half of the Sixteenth Centuries
• 4. The Chancellery of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Metrica in the Mid-Sixteenth–First Quarter of the Seventeenth Centuries
• 5. The Chancellery of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its Staff from the 1620s to the Eighteenth Century
• 6. Structure, Handling, and Control Issues Regarding the Lithuanian Metrica
• 7. Storage of the Lithuanian Metrica: Balancing State Interests and Personal Whims
• 8. The Eighteenth Century—a Time of Journeys: The Lithuanian Metrica between Vilnius, Warsaw, and Saint Petersburg
• 9. In Foreign Hands
• 10. Research and Publishing
• Bibliography

About the Author

Artūras Dubonis is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. His research interests are Lithuanian society and sources about its history from the thirteenth to the first half of the seventeenth centuries, and the Lithuanian Metrica. He has published several books of the Lithuanian Metrica and three monographs.

Darius Antanavičius is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. The focus of his research lies in editing Neo-Latin authors dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries concerning the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He is the author of numerous publications and discoveries in this field.

Raimonda Ragauskienė is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. Her research interests are the social, political and local history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries, especially the history of the Biržai-Dubingiai line of the noble Radziwiłł family and the Lithuanian Metrica. She has published nine monographs and several books of the Lithuanian Metrica.

Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. The focus of her research is the early modern history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, especially the late eighteenth-century political history and development of political institutions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. She is an author and editor of several scholarly books.