Papermaking in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Paper mills, their key characteristic being the use of water energy, were an important element of the...
The Commonwealth Educational Commission: a new approach to teachers and education
Pope Clement XVI’s decree pronouncing the closure of the Jesuit Order reached the Lithuanian and...
Written documents in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania oral culture
Pre-Christian Lithuania was a land of oral culture. Peter of Dusburg, the chronicler of the German...
Alfonso Salmerón, the First Jesuit in Vilnius
The Spaniard Alfonso Salmerón (1515–1585) was one of the closest companions of Ignatius Loyola, the...
The first bishops of medieval Lithuania
It is believed that already the second Bishop of Vilnius after Lithuania‘s conversion to...
Reformation in Renaissance Samogitia: the family of Skaczewski
The story of Stanislaw Skaczewski (Lith. Stanislav Skaševskis) (†1579), coming from the gentry and...
Cartography of a private domain: the 1645 map of the Duchy of Biržai
European cartography experienced a considerable rise in the 16th and the first half of the 17th...
Food in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
In the 13th and 14th centuries, both pagans and Christians suffered from starvation because the lack...
Pilėnai and Margiris
Pilėnai is a place that looms over the landscape of Lithuanian history. It is a place shrouded in...
The mythology of the Battle of Saulė
The raid of the Christian army against Lithuania in 1236 was dictated by the political circumstances...
How Lithuania helped shape Sweden’s elegance
Politics is the new black, regardless of which one you choose, fictional or real. Just as many...
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