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Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Galicia in Northeastern Europe, 1805-1905 [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
Background: Historical ethnobotanical data can provide valuable information about past human-nature relationships as well as serve as a basis for diachronic analysis.
Julia Prakofjewa +3 more
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The relationship between Salaca Livonian and Courland Livonian dialects [PDF]
The article examines the relationship between the two prominent forms of Livonian: Salaca Livonian, spoken on the territory of historical Livonia, and Courland Livonian.
Karl Pajusalu
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The Development of Peasants’ Reading Habits in Courland and Livonia in the 18th Century* [PDF]
The article explores the development of peasants’ reading habits over the 18th century in the Latvian-inhabited Lutheran regions of Russia’s Baltic provinces Courland/Kurzeme and Latvian Livonia/Vidzeme.
Pauls Daija
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There was no ideal or typical way of establishing the Reformation in Europe, while Church reform in East Central Europe cannot be attributed solely to the influence of the ideas from Wittenberg.
Ulrich Schoenborn
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Literature of Revolution in the Newspaper of the Duchy of Courland: Mitauische Zeitung (1789–1795) [PDF]
The break in intelligibility caused by exceptional events encourages interpretation, attempts at explanation, the search for causes, and the projection of consequences, thus creating relevant literature.
Simona Sofija Valke
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TRADITIONAL LATVIAN COUNTRY HOUSE. COURLAND REGION EXAMPLE [PDF]
The traditional way of life concerns not only treatment of things, but important is also the environment of traditional management. Development plans have to define the context of the cultural landscape protection and management of premises and areas around the old rural homesteads, having regard to land rights, and should be targeted for biodiversity ...
Balode, Linda
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Abstract Studies on the role of interest groups in the formation of public policy are generally focused on those in democratic countries. However, the emerging literature on interest groups in autocratic regimes suggests that business in such states is actively involved in policy formation. On the basis of the first dataset on the 1891 tariff reform in
Marina Chuchko
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Die Domkapitel von Kurland und Riga. Ein Beitrag zum Inkorporationsbegriff im Deutschen Orden
Research on the cathedral chapters of the ecclesiastical province of Riga shows that the Teu-tonic Order played a significant role in how they operated, since five of the eight cathedral chapters were regulated according to its rule.
Johannes Götz
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History in Public: Power and Process, Harm and Help
Abstract This introductory piece explains the choice of public history as a focus for this special issue of History, and its emphasis on the work of early‐career historians. ‘Public history’ is a notoriously nebulous concept. We outline some of the most common ways in which it is understood, and discuss why we believe that its methods and approaches ...
Christel Annemieke Romein +3 more
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The l-cases in Courland Livonian [PDF]
Courland Livonian is the only Finnic language where the habitive expressions of giving, taking, and having do not use the so-called l-cases, but instead the dative, the elative or a postposition.
Rogier Blokland, Nobufumi Inaba
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