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Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2016 The article explores the changes in the gathering, processing and use of amber on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea at the end of the Viking Age and in the 12th to 16th century. In the pagan sacral space, works in amber reflected mythological elements,
Sigita Bagužaitė-Talačkienė
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The South Estonian language islands in the context of the Central Baltic area
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021 This article offers a comparative analysis of several morphosyntactic and phonological features in the South Estonian language islands: Leivu, Lutsi, and Kraasna.
Miina Norvik +6 more
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Courland during the Reign of Peter von Biron (1769-1795)
Littera Scripta, 2015 This article deals with the period of Peter von Biron´s rule in the Duchy of Courland. It analyses the Duke´s relationship with Courland nobility, his foreign policy and the reasons for the ending of the independence of the Duchy.
Lenka Vašková Šínová
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Knygotyra, 2018 [full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] The article explores the introduction of the Rationalist hymnbooks in the Latvian literature during the first decade of the 19th century as an episode in the history of reading in Livonia and
Pauls Daija
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Change-of-state predicates and their use for expressing the future: the case of Livonian
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014 The present article considers change-of-state predicates in Livonian and their possible development into future copulas. The focus is on the verbs īedõ ‘remain, stay; become’, sǭdõ ‘get; become’, and līdõ (synchronically a future copula), but also the ...
Miina Norvik
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, 2022 Works on historical ethnobotany can help shed light on past plant uses and humankind’s relationships with the environment. We analyzed medicinal plant uses from the historical regions of Livonia and Courland in Northeast Europe based on three studies ...
Kalle, R. +14 more
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Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2021 The article, based on the unpublished documents from the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire, reveals for the first time details of a little-known episode in the history of the Russian diplomatic service – the mission of Empress ...
M. A. Petrova
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The Commerce of Comfort: Exploring Retail Trade and Consumer Patterns in Late 18th-Century Courland [PDF]
While several studies have shed light on the emergence of consumer society in Western Europe and the Atlantic world, our knowledge on the spread of new consumption patterns in regions beyond the core areas of European economic development is still ...
Kruk, Oliver, Baumgartl, Matthias
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Julijus Dioringas – XIX amžiaus Šiaurės Lietuvos tyrėjas
Archaeologia Lituana, 2013 JULIUS DÖRING. A 19TH-CENTURY NORTH LITHUANIA INVESTIGATOR Ernestas Vasiliauskas Summary An artist, a painting restorer, an art critic, an art pedagogue, a member of the intelligentsia, a historian, an archaeologist, a regional investigator, a ...
Ernestas Vasiliauskas
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Lexical Relations between Salaca Livonian and Estonian Dialects; pp. 283-298 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2009 The present study is based on the Salaca Livonian dictionary compiled by Eberhard Winkler and Karl Pajusalu (Winkler, Pajusalu 2009), which assembles the vocabulary of all the Salaca Livonian sources. The Salaca Livonian dialect, which is a major variety
Karl Pajusalu +2 more
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