The Reformation in Lithuania: origins and developments up to 1570

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Anglų kalba / English
Title:
The Reformation in Lithuania: origins and developments up to 1570
Authors:
Pociūtė, Dainora
Publication Data:
Leiden ; Brill, 2024.
Pages:
x, 116 p
Series:
  • Brill research perspectives in humanities and social sciences
  • Brill research perspectives in early modern cultures of the younger Europe
Contents:
Acknowledgments — Conventions — Timetable — Introduction: Bordering the Confines of Europe and the Lands of the Infidels — 1 The Historiography of the Reformation in Lithuania — 2 The First Evangelicals: an Exiled Generation: 2.1 Capite vobis vulpes parvulas, quae demoliuntur vineas: Preventing Lutheran Heresies; 2.2 Kulvietis: Challenging Epicureanism with Conscience; 2.3 Lithuanian Lutheran Church in Prussia: Stanislovas Rapolionis, Martynas Mažvydas, and the Beginnings of Lithuanian Printing — 3 Establishment of the Church of Christians: Instituting the Protestant Creed: 3.1 First Communities: toward the Evangelical Celebrations; 3.2 Vilnius Palatine Radvila the Black versus Papal Nuncio Luigi Lippomano (1556): a Clash of Truths; 3.3 Shaping the Doctrine and the Patterns of the Devotion — 4 Unearthing the Origins of Heterodoxy: a Journey into Fragmentation: 4.1 Antitrinitarianism and Anabaptism: the Venetian Beginnings Explored by Peter Gonesius; 4.2 Giorgio Biandrata and the Schism of the Church; 4.3 Symon Budny: Catalyst in the Emergence of Unitarianism; 4.4 Orthodoxa fidei confessio: the Path to Unity among Magisterial Reformers — 5 Epilogue: Tracing the Fruits of Protestant Piety — Bibliography — Index.
Subject Category:
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Bažnyčios istorija / Church history; Kultūros istorija / Cultural history; 13 amžius - 1569. Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė. LDK; 1569-1795. Lietuva ATR laikotarpiu.
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ENThe Reformation in Lithuania: Origins and Developments up to 1570 by Dainora Pociūtė explores the dynamics of the Reformation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, focusing on its early evolution and highlighting its autonomous character and the impact of Italian Protestantism. Abraomas Kulvietis, an alumnus of the university of Siena, was among the first to call for Church reforms in Vilnius. The tradition of Lithuanian printing, initiated by reformers who were forced to flee to Lutheran Prussia, was one of the early results of the movement. The progress of the Reformation accelerated rapidly in the 1550s when Mikalojus Radvila the Black, the most powerful magnate in Lithuania, announced his break with Rome and established an autonomous Evangelical Church in Lithuania. It matured by interweaving not only Lutheran and Swiss doctrines but also Antitrinitarianism and Anabaptism. This led to a gradual schism between radical communities and sympathizers of magisterial Protestantism during the 1560s.

DOI:
10.1163/9789004719965
ISBN:
9789004719965; 9789004718395
Subject:
Istorija / History
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2026-02-25 13:44:25
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