Books in the Lithuanian Studies without Borders series

In a balanced way reflecting upon past and present, tradition and modernity, individual and collective, and employing modern research methodologies to dissect and analyze popular subjects and themes, the eight separate essays comprising the book present a condensed view of the popular Lithuanian culture and mentality.

Analyses the history of the Lithuanian Metrica from the mid-fifteenth century until now. The book reveals how the first Metrica books emerged in the second half of the fifteenth century, discussing the titles given to them in different periods in history, and explains why the Metrica should be considered the state archive of early Lithuania.

Explroes the complicated relationship between religion and national consciousness in the modern world, highlighting various cases in Central and Eastern Europe. Through those analyses, the authors show how religion, far from disappearing, strongly impacted the emerging national consciousness.

This volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multinational project, with national literatures acting not as copies of the Russian model, but as creators of a multidimensional literary space.

Focuses on 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 mpact of the values disseminated in the newly created state, such as the concept of the state itself, its governance, representation, and laws.

Deals with the spatial concepts of Lithuania and other geo-images that either "competed" in the nineteenth century with the term Lithuania or were of a different taxonomic level (Samogitia, Prussia's Lithuania, Lithuania Minor, Poland, etc.). The Russian, Lithuanian, Polish, Belarusian, Jewish, and German geo-images of this territory are analyzed in separate chapters of this volume.