Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic: Sixteenth-Century Ethnographic Accounts of Baltic Paganism

Francis Young

doi:10.1017/9781802700213

Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic

Sixteenth-Century Ethnographic Accounts of Baltic Paganism

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Edited and translated by Francis Young

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: May 2022
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781802700213
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781802700213

Subjects:: British History: General Interest, History
Series:: Foundations

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The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the last European polity to renounce paganism and accept the Christian faith, at the end of the fourteenth century. However, the conversion of the Baltic region continued into the early modern period and the ongoing pagan beliefs and practices of Lithuanians and Prussians excited the interest of early ethnographers. This volume brings together Jan Lasicki's On the Gods of the Samogitians, Jan Malecki’s Little Book on the Sacrifices and Idolatry of the Old Prussians, and other Latin texts on Baltic paganism, none of which have hitherto been translated into English. A critical introduction places these texts, which are of interest far beyond the field of Central European history, in the contexts of early modern ethnography, Baltic history, and Reformation religious polemic.

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Sixteenth-Century Ethnographic Accounts of Baltic Paganism

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Frontmatter
pp i-iii

Contents
pp iv-v

Miscellaneous Frontmatter
pp vi-vii

Preface and Acknowledgements
pp viii-viii

Maps
pp ix-ix

Introduction
pp 1-34

Editor’s Note
pp 35-36

Translator’s Note
pp 37-37

1 - The Cosmography of Pope Pius II in an Elegant Description of Europe and Asia
pp 38-43

2 - Polish Histories
pp 44-61

3 - The Life and Manners of Cardinal Zbigniew
pp 62-65

4 - Treatise on the Two Asian and European Sarmatias and on Those Things Contained in Them
pp 66-73

5 - Two Books on the Antiquities of the Prussians (1518)
pp 74-79

6 - Simple Words of Catechism (1547) [Pastoral Preface]
pp 80-85

7 - On the Customs of the Tatars, Lithuanians, and Muscovites
pp 86-99

8 - A Description of Sarmatian Europe
pp 100-113

9 - Little Book on the Sacrifices and Idolatry of the Old Prussians, Livonians, and Other Neighbouring Peoples
pp 114-129

10 - On the Gods of the Samogitians, of the Other Sarmatians, and of the False Christians
pp 130-164

Bibliography
pp 165-170

Lithuanian Summary / Santrauka
pp 171-172

Index
pp 173-181

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