Author: Rowell, S.C.
Title: Lithuania ascending. A pagan empire within east-central Europe, 1295-1345. [First edition].
Description: [Cambridge & New York], Cambridge University Press, [1994]. XXI,375 pp. 5 b./w. figs, 6 b./w. maps & 4 tables. Orig. hardcover (blacl cloth, gilt lettering omn spine). 8vo. Good copy of the hardcover edition. - Text in English. - From 1250 to 1795 Lithuania covered a vast area of eastern and central Europe. Until 1387 the country was pagan. How this huge state came to expand, defend itself against western European crusaders and play a conspicuous part in European life are the main subjects of this book.The emergence of pagan Lithuania is presented against the background of the political and religious crises of fourteenth-century Byzantine and Catholic Christendom. An attempt is made to show how the Lithuanians manipulated their position on the commercial, denominational and colonial frontier to maintain an expanding dominion in the face of Polish, Teutonic and Rus'ian opposition.

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