Latinitas in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The volume contains articles concerning the influence of Latinitas in the territory now occupied by Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus’. The articles, all published in English, range from history to literature and to cultural history and the history of ideas. They analyze the issue of building an identity, either real or imagined, from different points of view. Among the most interesting topics are the classical origins of myths and ideas that have helped build the national identities of those that constituted the ethnic mosaic of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the role of Neo-Latin poetry, as a conveyor of Latinitas, in the development of national identities. Because of the significance of Latinitas for both common European cultural traditions and the national cultures, literatures and languages of Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine, it is to be hoped that the subject will continue to attract a good level of attention in the future.

THE CULTURAL-HISTORICAL MEMORY OF THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA AS AN EXPRESSION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AS A CULTURAL CAPITAL FACILITATING INTEGRATION INTO THE EUROPEAN UNION

Creativity Studies ◽

10.3846/2029-0187.2008.1.160-171 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 160-171

Author(s):

Antanas Andrijauskas

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Historical Memory ◽

Cultural Orientation ◽

First Century ◽

The European Union ◽

Latin West ◽

Border Culture ◽

History Of ◽

The object of the article is the duality of the cultural‐historical memory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania between the worlds of the Latin West and the Byzantine Slavic East, strongly affected the historical memory and mentality of the Lithuanian nation and shaped many of the forms of cultural and national self‐identification, forms which are historically changing and characteristic for a border culture. After concisely discussing various aspects of the cultural history of the GDL, that have strongly affected Lithuanian historical memory, it is possible to state that homogeneity was alien for Lithuanian culture, which had insinuated itself between the Latin West and the Byzantine East and which, from the first century of the appearance of the state, was distinguished by a heterogeneous cultural orientation with diverse directions.

Współistnienie języków na ziemiach byłego Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego w świetle prac Jana Karłowicza

Acta Baltico-Slavica ◽

10.11649/abs.2013.003 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 37 ◽

pp. 41-51

Author(s):

Elżbieta Koniusz

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Linguistic Interference ◽

History Of ◽

Polish Language ◽

Bilingualism And Multilingualism ◽

Co-existence of languages in the area of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the light of the works of Jan KarłowiczThe article discusses the issues of the co-existence of languages in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the consequences of the phenomenon as documented in the works of Jan Karłowicz – the outstanding scholar of the second half of the nineteenth century, an expert and researcher of the “Lithuanian” version of Polish language. The article emphasizes the fact that the research on languages in the area of The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and results of their co-existence goes back to the second half of the nineteenth century and Jan Karłowicz was the pioneer of this research. He was the first to observe the following phenomena of their co-existence: interference; bilingualism and multilingualism; prioritization of co-existing languages with the unique role of the Polish language in focusing various functions in the history of The Grand Duchy of Lithuania; the diversity of Polish with sociolinguistic classification of its provincialisms and their division in the view of their origin; and the dangers to the Polish language in the period of Russification. Karłowicz struggled with the lack of terminology to describe the linguistic phenomena characteristic for the area. The article focuses on the classification of provincial qualities of the “Lithuanian” Polish language executed by Karłowicz in the social and ethnolinguistic area; and on the presentation of the phenomenon of linguistic interference visible in the provincial vocabulary in The Grand Duchy of Lithuania collected in “Dictionary of Polish dialects” by Karłowicz. Сосуществование языков на территории бывшего Великого княжества Литовского в свете произведений Яна КарловичаЦель данной статьи – показать сосуществование языков на землях бывшего Великого княжества Литовского (ВКЛ) и последствий этого явления, засвидетельствованных в работах Яна Карловича, видного ученого второй половины девятнадцатого века, знатока и исследователя „литовского” польского языка. Автор статьи указывает на то, что изучение языков в Великом княжестве Литовском, последствиям их сосуществования относятся ко второй половине девятнадцатого века, а их первым исследователем был Карлович. Им впервые были отмечены такие проявления этого сосуществования, как языковая интерференция, билингвизм и многоязычие, иерархия сосуществующих языков и диалектов. Выделена особая роль польского языка, объединившего целый ряд функций в истории ВКЛ, дифференциация внутри польского языка, социолингвистическая классификация его диалектизмов и их деление по происхождению, угрозы для польского языка в период сильной русификации. Особое внимание автор статьи сосредоточил на классификации провинциальных особенностей „литовского” польского языка, осуществлённой Карловичем в социальном и этнолингвистическом плане, а также на проявлениях интерференции в провинциальной лексике, ведущей своё происхождение из Великого княжества Литовского, собранной в „Словаре польских диалектов” Карловича.

Пра традыцыі Вялікага Княства Літоўскага і Рэчы Паспалітай, „Kresy Wschodnie” і ролю Польшчы і палякаў у гісторыі беларусаў і літоўцаў

Acta Baltico-Slavica ◽

10.11649/abs.2017.006 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

pp. 302-330

Author(s):

Аляксандр [Aliaksandr] Смалянчук [Smalianchuk]

Keyword(s):

Historical Memory ◽

Historical Research ◽

Political Interest ◽

Common Heritage ◽

History Of ◽

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 LithuaniansSeveral prominent historians and researchers of historical memory from Poland, Lithuania and Belarus have focused on some questions concerning traditions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the role of the close neighbors in the history of Poles, Lithuanians, and Belarusians. This insight give us an idea about the main directions of historical research in these countries for which the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish‑Lithuanian Commonwealth is a common heritage. This also allows us to understand the level of public and political interest in this problem, and reveal important trends in the historical memory of these three countries. O tradycjach Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego i Rzeczypospolitej, „Kresach Wschodnich” oraz roli Polski i Polaków w historii Białorusinów i LitwinówZnani historycy i badacze problematyki pamięci z Polski, Litwy oraz Białorusi odpowiedzieli na pytania dotyczące tradycji Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego oraz Rzeczypospolitej, a także roli bliskich sąsiadów w historii Polaków, Litwinów i Białorusinów. Odpowiedzi pokazują, jakie są podstawowe kierunki badań historycznych w krajach, dla których historia Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego i Rzeczypospolitej stanowi wspólne dziedzictwo, pozwalają zrozumieć, jaki jest poziom społecznego oraz politycznego zainteresowania tą problematyką, oraz ujawniają ważne tendencje związane z pamięcią historyczną tych trzech państw.

Yevhen Malaniuk and Dariia Vikonska. Artistically Transformed History of Princely Family of Fedorovyches in Poem “Meeting”

Академічний журнал Слово і Час ◽

10.33608/0236-1477.2019.06.46-55 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 46-55

Author(s):

Ihor Nabytovych

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Armed Forces ◽

Literary Studies ◽

Human Soul ◽

National Cultures ◽

History Of ◽

Grand Duchy ◽

Critical Reviews

Karolina Ivanna Fedorovych-Malytska (1893–1945) came into Ukrainian writing and culture as Dariia Vikonska, the author of short prose, literary studies, critical reviews and art studies. She was close to the circle of ʻvisnykivtsiʼ (the ʻVisnyk-poetsʼ). The history of literary contacts between Yevhen Malaniuk and Dariia Vikonska remains fragmentary and little known. The paper focuses on the poem “Pobachennia” (“Meeting”) by Malaniuk that transforms the history of Fedorovyches family in an artistic way. Ukrainian princely family of Fedorovyches spread all over the Europe creating its history, culture and contributing to its economic development. The line in which Karolina Ivanna Fedorovych-Malytska was the last representative remained Ukrainian. Other lines dissolved in other national cultures (often Polish). Yevhen Malaniuk left a brief memoir about Dariia Vikonska within an episode of his visit to the estate of Malytskyis in Podillia region. Some fragments of conversations and reminiscences in the ﬁ rst part of the poem “Meeting” supplement the description of this visit. The poem was written in 1939–1941 and consists of three parts although its structure is somewhat obscure. The ﬁ rst part of the poem artistically describes the fate of the Ukrainian princely family of Fedorovyches in historiosophical perspective. This family is rooted in the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The second and third parts of the poem are oneiric visions of the lyrical character. The poet tells about the meeting with the general Vasyl Tiutiunnyk, the deceased chief of the Armed Forces Headquarters of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, and premonition of a mysterious meeting with already deceased parents and grandparents that should happen after the death of the character. The mystical third part of the poem describes the transition of the human soul to eternity in a lyrical literary way.

Slavic Antiquities and Forgeries as Means for the Shaping of Canons

Studia Slavica ◽

10.1556/060.2019.64105 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 64 (1) ◽

pp. 47-58

Author(s):

Róbert Kiss Szemán

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Visual Information ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Western Europe ◽

Chinese Translation ◽

National Cultures ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

The 19Th Century

The study deals with the role of Slavic antiquities in the age of national revivals and with the forging of such antiquities. It discusses the subject of Slavic antiquities and forgeries in Central Europe, bringing in the cultural context of Western Europe as well. ‘Antiquity’ is understood to mean a kind of medium that conveyed textual or visual information. The collecting of antiquities became fashionable during the first decades of the 19th century and led to the need for antiquities to be described and categorized. In turn, antiquities served as corpuses for the shaping of modern national cultural canons. It contends that these artefacts, authentic and forged alike, played an important role in moulding the cultural canons of the Slavic nations in Central Europe. An antiquity's canonical value stemmed from its age most of all and an antiquity needed to be linked as specifically as possible to the history and culture of a given nation. The worth of an antiquity was further boosted when it could be connected with historical personages of great significance. Finally, the more mysterious the history of an antiquity, the greater the degree of speculation permissible in regard to interpretations of it. A forged antiquity is basically an objectification informed by the forger's thinking and imagination. A forgery bears not just marks characteristic of past times but also marks of the forger and those of the time in which the forgery was made. It is something which calls an entire system into question, thereby causing bewilderment. From this perplexity, only one phenomenon can derive benefit, namely, the national culture. Important among the motives for the forging of Slavic antiquities was the circumstance that framers of canons felt that the structures of their national cultures were incomplete. Researching the reasons for the forging, the study points out structural gaps in the canons in Central Europe as well as traumas stemming from forgeries. Using four examples taken from Kollár's oeuvre (the Poison Tree of Java, the Slavic idols of Prillwitz, the Queen's Court and Green Mountain manuscripts and Derzhavin's poem God in Japanese and Chinese translation) it presents the most common motives behind Slavic forgeries along with the kinds of fake most frequently encountered; it also shows the processes by which forgeries were exposed for what they were. These examples show that when Kollár worked with antiquities and fake antiquities, playing the imposter and pecuniary advantage were very far from him. On the other hand, as a philologist he became a prisoner of contemporary national canonical and emblematic structures.

Известия Смоленского государственного университета ◽

Foreign Centres of Belarusian Studies.The Ostrogorski Centre in London

10.35785/2072-9464-2021-53-1-186-198 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 186-198

Author(s):

Ivan Rodionov

Keyword(s):

Second World War ◽

Soviet Period ◽

World War ◽

History Of ◽

The Uk ◽

Second World ◽

The article analyzes the activities of the Ostrogorski Centre as one of the most active Belarusian organizations in the UK nowadays. The research is based on the analysis of the publications taken from The Journal of Byelorus-sian Studies and the course «The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in European and Belarusian History» offered by Ostrogorski Academy. The history of the Journal of Byelorussian Studies dates back to the mid-1960s. The journal was initiated by the Anglo-Belarusian Society. The first issue of the Yearbook was published in 1965. The journal as a whole tended towards a philological (linguistic) orientation. The General theme of articles on histori-cal Belarusian topics in the journal was firstly of random, fragmentary charac-ter, without a common editorial purpose and the philosophy of the journal his-torical issues: for example, the description of individual issues of «Nasha Niva» newspaper is replaced by articles about the role of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the daily life of the nobles, presented in memoirs, the influence of Belarus-ian masters on Moscow architecture, etc. In the majority of the thematically «scattered» historical publications, one line clearly emerges –the national one. The journal was published again in 2013 due to the joint efforts of Os-trogorski Centre and the Anglo-Belarusian Society. It has acquired a more sci-entific structure. It publishes articles on Belarusian literature, linguistics, inter-national relations, civil society, history and art, as well as book reviews, which emphasizes its scientific component. The modern version of the journalcontains a larger number of articles on historical topics in comparison with the publica-tion of the second half of the 20th century. Publications of the modern journal deal with such topics as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the early Soviet period of the 1920–30s and belarusization, Western Belarus as a part of Poland, the period of the Second World War, Stalinism, personalities, etc.

“History Misappropriation or Compreension?” (Russian Lihuanian Studies in the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century)

Almanac “Essays on Conservatism” ◽

10.24030/24092517-2020-0-2-219-236 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 58 ◽

pp. 219-236

Author(s):

Andrey Yu. Dvornichenko

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Russian Empire ◽

Soviet Period ◽

Medieval History ◽

Scientific Paradigm ◽

Russian State ◽

History Of ◽

The abundant Russian historiography of the medieval history of Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lithuanian-Russian State) has become in the last decades the centre of the discussions and is often subject to groundless criticism. This historiography was not very lucky in the Soviet period of the 20th century either, as it was severely criticized from the Marxist-Leninist position. When discussing Russian historiography the author of this article is consciously committed to the Russian positions. There are no reasons to consider this historiography branch either Byelorussian or Ukrainian one, as that was really Russian historiography, - the phenomenon that formed under the favorable specific conditions of Russian Empire before the beginning of the 20th century. The said phenomenon can be studied in different ways: according to the existing then main trends and schools or according to their affiliation with specific universities of Russian Empire. But according to the author of this article the best way to study the issue is in accordance with the main concepts of history. And then the pre-revolutionary historiography appears as an integral scientific paradigm that turns out to be the most divaricate branch of the Lithuanian studies of the time. It created, in its turn, the most vivid and objective historical picture that can still serve as the basis for the studies of Lithuanian-Russian state.

Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780198815013.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ildar Garipzanov

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Late Antiquity ◽

Western Europe ◽

Dominant Role ◽

Ninth Century ◽

Sources Of Authority ◽

History Of ◽

Historical Periods

The concluding chapter highlights how the cultural history of graphic signs of authority in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages encapsulated the profound transformation of political culture in the Mediterranean and Europe from approximately the fourth to ninth centuries. It also reflects on the transcendent sources of authority in these historical periods, and the role of graphic signs in highlighting this connection. Finally, it warns that, despite the apparent dominant role of the sign of the cross and cruciform graphic devices in providing access to transcendent protection and support in ninth-century Western Europe, some people could still employ alternative graphic signs deriving from older occult traditions in their recourse to transcendent powers.

Exploring the boundaries of rhetoric

Journal of Organizational Change Management ◽

10.1108/jocm-09-2014-0175 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 27 (5) ◽

pp. 793-806 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Eduard Bonet

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Design Methodology ◽

The Self ◽

History Of Rhetoric ◽

Content Type ◽

History Of ◽

Practical Development ◽

The Subject

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the boundaries of rhetoric have excluded important theoretical and practical subjects and how these subjects are recuperated and extended since the twentieth century. Its purpose is to foster the awareness on emerging new trends of rhetoric. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is based on an interpretation of the history of rhetoric and on the construction of a conceptual framework of the rhetoric of judgment, which is introduced in this paper. Findings – On the subject of the extension of rhetoric from public speeches to any kinds of persuasive situations, the paper emphasizes some stimulating relationships between the theory of communication and rhetoric. On the exclusion and recuperation of the subject of rhetorical arguments, it presents the changing relationships between rhetoric and dialectics and emphasizes the role of rhetoric in scientific research. On the introduction of rhetoric of judgment and meanings it creates a conceptual framework based on a re-examination of the concept of judgment and the phenomenological foundations of the interpretative methods of social sciences by Alfred Schutz, relating them to symbolic interactionism and theories of the self. Originality/value – The study on the changing boundaries of rhetoric and the introduction of the rhetoric of judgment offers a new view on the present theoretical and practical development of rhetoric, which opens new subjects of research and new fields of applications.

Deveolpment of Constitutional Law on the Territory of Ukranie (IX-XIII Centuries)

Historia Constitucional ◽

10.17811/hc.v0i22.733 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1006-1014

Author(s):

Oksana Pylypchuk

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Constitutional Law ◽

Political Regime ◽

Democratic State ◽

History Of ◽

The Times ◽

History Of Formation ◽

Grand Duchy ◽

Submission Date

The article is devoted to the history of formation and development of Ukrainian constitutionalism. It is shown that during the times of Kievan Rus and the Galicia-Volyn principality monarchical states with elements of a democratic state and political regime were formed on Ukrainian lands. It is highlighted that the formation of the Ukrainian nation and its path to its own state was carried out under the conditions of aristocratic democracy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It is emphasized that the Ukrainian people in the XV century became part of a large European society, which became the basis for the emergence of constitutional ideas in the Ukrainian ethnic lands, the creation of the Cossacks and the revival of their own Ukrainian state in the former Kievan Rus. It is noted that the results of the development of Ukrainian constitutionalism in the eighteenth century was presented in the Constitution of Hetman P. Orlyk in 1710, which became one of the most democratic constitutions in Europe at that time. Fecha de envío / Submission date: 25/02/2021 Fecha de aceptación / Acceptance date: 19/04/2021