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A missing chain? On the sociolinguistics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2017
A missing chain? On the sociolinguistics of the Grand Duchy of LithuaniaThe article critically assesses the theory of communicative networks and its applicability in the study of multilingualism as found in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL). The author analyzes foundations for postulating the existence of a speech community in the GDL and adduces ...
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Claiming the Isle? Islandness and Territorial Demands

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between insularity and territorial demands, focusing on whether island territories are more likely to support regionalist and secessionist parties. To address this question, we compare electoral support for such parties across island and mainland territories using a large‐N dataset.
Pau Torres, Marc Sanjaume‐Calvet
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Пра традыцыі Вялікага Княства Літоўскага і Рэчы Паспалітай, „Kresy Wschodnie” і ролю Польшчы і палякаў у гісторыі беларусаў і літоўцаў

Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2017
About the tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish‑Lithuanian Commonwealth, “Kresy Wschodnie” and the role of Poland and Poles in the history of Belarusians and Lithuanians Several prominent historians and researchers of historical memory ...
Аляксандр [Aliaksandr] Смалянчук [Smalianchuk]
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From the History of the 15th Century Ryazan-Lithuanian Borderland: In Concern with the Question of the Location of Gordeevsky

Историко-географический журнал, 2022
The Ryazan-Lithuanian treaty, composed approximately in 1427, mentioned a number of geographical objects belonging to the Ryazan Princeland which could be entered by The Grand Prince Lithuanian Vitovt: Tula, Berestey, Retan, Sparsh, Dorozhen, Zakoloten ...
A. V. Deduk
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The Appearance of the Hippocentaur in the Heraldry of the Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [PDF]

Lithuanian Historical Studies, 2012
The Centaur or Hippocentaur in the heraldry of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has been little investigated. This theme is a not yet fully exhausted granary of heraldic studies, which, due to the lack of primary sources, raises more questions than it has answers for scholars.
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Multiscripturality in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: New Research Approaches [PDF]

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 2019
The paper deals with the problem of using different languages of writing in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Among them there were: Latin, Polish, Ruthenian, Church Slavonic, Lithuanian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek, written in five alphabets: Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek.
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Dans le cercle du pouvoir : les favoris dans les systèmes politiques des cours de Paris-Versailles et du grand-duché de Lituanie au xviie siècle

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2021
During the seventeenth century, in both France and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the rulers formed their own parties to help them rule the state. The main purpose of the article is to present how rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and of France chose
Aleksandra Ziober
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On the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Lietuvos istorijos studijos, 1996
The article by the medievalist historian presents a critical review of the reports on the nature of civilization in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Polish, Russian, German, and Lithuanian historiography based on the definition of civilization by the Polish theorist of history, Feliks Koneczny ("Civilization is a method of arranging communal ...
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The General Confederation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1734–1736) [PDF]

Lithuanian Historical Studies, 2003
This article deals with the issue of the political alliance of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) – the activity of the General Confederation of the GDL between 1734 and 1736 focusing on issues which have not been researched properly up to now.
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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