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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823913403321
• Autore: Kiaupienė Jūratė
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2020; ©2020
• ISBN: 1-64469-365-8; 1-64469-147-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 pages)
• Collana: Lithuanian Studies without Borders
• Soggetti: Political culture - Lithuania - History; Lithuania History To 1500; Lithuania History 1569-1795; Lithuania Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.