The focus of this book is the unique socio-politicaland socio-cultural community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the late fifteenthto the early seventeenth century. This ethnically diverse, ...multilingual,multi-faith, multicultural national space has had a great impact on thesocio-political development of Central Europe.
The focus of this book is the unique socio-political and
socio-cultural community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the
golden age of the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century. This
study ...analyses the cultural and political impact of the values
disseminated in the newly created state, such as the concept of the
state itself, its governance, representation, laws, and other
elements of the socio-political system.
Through theoretical and factographic arguments, this book
demonstrates that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a social,
political, and cultural link between geopolitical and geo-cultural
spaces of the Roman West and the Byzantine East. Located at the
cultural crossroads of Europe, Lithuania was an ethnically diverse,
multilingual, multi-faith, multicultural national space. Nurtured
by international contacts, its political system developed rapidly,
influencing the formation of geopolitical and geo-cultural
mentality of the whole Central Eastern European region.
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