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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795867203321

Titolo

Pagans in the early modern Baltic : sixteenth-century ethnographic accounts of Baltic paganism / / edited by Francis Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds, England : , : Arc Humanities Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-80270-021-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 181 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Foundations

Disciplina

292.009479

Soggetti

Paganism

Religion

Baltic States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Editor’s Note -- Translator’s Note -- TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS -- 1. Cosmographia Pii Papae in Asiae et Europae eleganti descriptione / 1. The Cosmography of Pope Pius II in an Elegant Description of Europe and Asia -- 2. Historiae Polonicae / 2. Polish Histories -- 3. Vita et mores Sbignei cardinalis / 3. The Life and Manners of Cardinal Zbigniew -- 4. Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis Asiana et Europeana et de contentis in eis / 4. Treatise on the Two Asian and European Sarmatias and on Those Things Contained in Them -- 5. De Borussiae antiquitatibus libri duo / 5. Two Books on the Antiquities of the Prussians (1518) -- 6. Catechismusa prasty szadei / 6. Simple Words of Catechism (1547) [Pastoral Preface] -- 7. De moribus Tartarorum, Lituanorum et Moschorum / 7. On the Customs of the Tatars, Lithuanians, and Muscovites -- 8. Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio / 8. A Description of Sarmatian Europe -- 9. Libellus de sacrificiis et idolatria veterum Borussorum, Livonum, aliarumque vicinarum gentium / 9. Little Book on the Sacrifices and Idolatry of the Old Prussians, Livonians, and Other Neighbouring Peoples -- 10. De diis Samagitarum caeterorumque Sarmatarum, et falsorum Christianorum / 10. On the Gods of the Samogitians, of the Other Sarmatians, and of the False Christians -- Bibliography -- Lithuanian



Summary / Santrauka -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sixteenth-century ethnographic accounts of Baltic paganism in English translation for the first time. With a critical introduction placing these texts in the contexts of early modern ethnography, Baltic history, and Reformation religious polemic.