Pagans in the early modern Baltic : sixteenth-century ethnographic accounts of Baltic paganism / edited and translated from Latin by Francis Young.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Young, Francis (Francis Kendrick), editor, translator.

Series:

• Foundations (ARC Humanities Press)
• Foundations

Language:

• English
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Paganism--Baltic States--History--16th century.
• Balts (Indo-European people)--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 181 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In Latin with parallel English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English; summary in Lithuanian.

Summary:

Sixteenth-century ethnographic accounts of Baltic paganism in English translation for the first time. With a critical introduction placing these texts in the contexts of early modern ethnography, Baltic history, and Reformation religious polemic.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Editor’s Note
• Translator’s Note
• TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
• 1. Cosmographia Pii Papae in Asiae et Europae eleganti descriptione / 1. The Cosmography of Pope Pius II in an Elegant Description of Europe and Asia
• 2. Historiae Polonicae / 2. Polish Histories
• 3. Vita et mores Sbignei cardinalis / 3. The Life and Manners of Cardinal Zbigniew
• 4. Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis Asiana et Europeana et de contentis in eis / 4. Treatise on the Two Asian and European Sarmatias and on Those Things Contained in Them
• 5. De Borussiae antiquitatibus libri duo / 5. Two Books on the Antiquities of the Prussians (1518)
• 6. Catechismusa prasty szadei / 6. Simple Words of Catechism (1547) [Pastoral Preface]
• 7. De moribus Tartarorum, Lituanorum et Moschorum / 7. On the Customs of the Tatars, Lithuanians, and Muscovites
• 8. Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio / 8. A Description of Sarmatian Europe
• 9. Libellus de sacrificiis et idolatria veterum Borussorum, Livonum, aliarumque vicinarum gentium / 9. Little Book on the Sacrifices and Idolatry of the Old Prussians, Livonians, and Other Neighbouring Peoples
• 10. De diis Samagitarum caeterorumque Sarmatarum, et falsorum Christianorum / 10. On the Gods of the Samogitians, of the Other Sarmatians, and of the False Christians
• Bibliography
• Lithuanian Summary / Santrauka
• Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80270-021-8

OCLC:

1308391592