Idololatria Vilnensis: The Confessional Debates of Jesuits and Protestants on Sacred Images in the 16th Century Lithuania [PDF]
Despite the abundance of theological treatises in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the late 16th century, only five of the eighty-six known titles deal with the use of sacred images and reveal the opposing sides of Catholics and Protestants in such ...
Tomas Riklius
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The paper investigates how Christians of different denominations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth described the Tatars and the Turks in the legends related to the miraculous image/icons of Virgin Mary.
Volha Barysenka
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Muzikos leidiniai – Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės magnatų tarptautinės reprezentacijos medija: Jonui Karoliui Chodkevičiui ir Aleksandrui Chodkevičiui dedikuoti leidiniai [PDF]
The article deals with the collections of printed music dedicated to the distinguished nobles, statesmen and military commanders of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, brothers Jan Karol and Aleksander Chodkiewicz.
Pister, Aleksandra
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The Image of an Architect and Masonic Symbols in Works by Milorad Pavić [PDF]
The paper analyzes works by the Serbian postmodernist writer Milorad Pavić. It attempts to prove that he possesses knowledge of royal art and uses masonic symbols in his writing related to geometry and architecture, including the radiant delta, compass ...
Huk, Zoriana
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Karaite Hebrew poetry and poetics in early modern Europe* [PDF]
Hebrew was the main language of the early modern Karaim culture. Nearly all Polish–Lithuanian Karaim scholars wrote poetry in Hebrew for various occasions celebrating the Karaim cycle of life: for Sabbaths and festivals, for weddings and circumcisions ...
Tuori, Riikka
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The Making of a Marian Geography of Grace for Greek Catholics in the Polish Crownlands of the 17th-18th Centuries [PDF]
This article explores the ways in which the newly founded and highly contested Christian confession of the Greek Catholics or Uniates employed strategies of mass mobilization to establish and maintain their position within a contested confessional ...
Stern, Dieter
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Moving Ahead into the Past: Historical Contexts in Recent Polish Cinema [PDF]
Moving Ahead into the Past: Historical Contexts in Recent Polish CinemaThe article looks at treatments of Poland’s 20th-century history in Polish films made over the last several years.
Anessi, Thomas
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The creation of an Ottoman Turkish Psalter : Ali Ufkî’s (Bobovius) "Mezmûriyye" (ca. 1665) and Maciej Rybiński’s "Psalmy Dawidowe" (1608) [PDF]
Wojciech Bobowski szerzej znany jest pod zlatynizowaną wersją swojego imienia: Albertus Bobovius oraz pod tureckim imieniem: Ali Ufki. Prawdopodobnie urodził się we Lwowie ok. 1610 r., a zmarł w Stambule ok. 1675 r. Pozostawił po sobie dzieła, które dziś
Pawlina, Agata
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Polityka rosyjskiej Cerkwi prawosławnej wobec cudownych obrazów katolickiej proweniencji na wschodnich terenach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej w XIX w. na kilku przykładach [PDF]
Due to the liquidation of the Union in 1839 and the transfer of Catholic churches to the Orthodox Church after the rebellions of 1830–1831 and 1863–1864 in the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which were incorporated into the ...
Barysenka, Volha
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Mental Maps of Eastern Europe: States, Mentalities, Modernisation [PDF]
Eastern Europe has been the object of orientalising discourses portraying it as a region defined by problematic statehood, underdevelopment, and nationalist-religious warmongering.
Varga, Mihai
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