Between Rome and Byzantium : : The Golden Age of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s Political Culture. Second half of the fifteenth century to first half of the seventeenth century / / Jūratė Kiaupienė.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Kiaupienė, Jūratė,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Lithuanian Studies without Borders
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

The focus of this book is the unique socio-political and socio-cultural community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the golden age of the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century. This study analyses the cultural and political impact of the values disseminated in the newly created state, such as the concept of the state itself, its governance, representation, laws, and other elements of the socio-political system.Through theoretical and factographic arguments, this book demonstrates that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a social, political, and cultural link between geopolitical and geo-cultural spaces of the Roman West and the Byzantine East. Located at the cultural crossroads of Europe, Lithuania was an ethnically diverse, multilingual, multi-faith, multicultural national space. Nurtured by international contacts, its political system developed rapidly, influencing the formation of geopolitical and geo-cultural mentality of the whole Central Eastern European region.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. The Landscape of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s Political Culture -- Introduction -- 1. The Geopolitical and Geocultural Space of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania -- 2. A Sociopolitical and Sociocultural Portrait of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania -- 3. The Mythological Space of the Political Culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania -- PART II. The Makeup and Manifestation of the Political Culture of The Grand Duchy of Lithuania -- Introduction -- 1. Union—The Idea and Reality of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s Political Culture -- 2. The State in the Political and Legal Culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania -- 3. The Grand Duchy’s Culture of Parliamentarism -- PART III. “We, the Nation of Lithuania”—Uncovering the Values of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s Political Culture -- Bibliography -- Index