Latinitas in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: its impact on the development of identities
- Recenzija leidinyje Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal. 2015, 2, p. 167-169
- Recenzija leidinyje Journal of Jesuit studies. 2016, 3, 116-118
ENThe volume contains articles concerning the influence of Latinitas in the territory now occupied by Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus’. The articles, all published in English, range from history to literature and to cultural history and the history of ideas. They analyze the issue of building an identity, either real or imagined, from different points of view. Among the most interesting topics are the classical origins of myths and ideas that have helped build the national identities of those that constituted the ethnic mosaic of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the role of Neo-Latin poetry, as a conveyor of Latinitas, in the development of national identities. Because of the significance of Latinitas for both common European cultural traditions and the national cultures, literatures and languages of Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine, it is to be hoped that the subject will continue to attract a good level of attention in the future.
- P. 21-33. Latin epic poetry and its evolution as a factor of cultural identity in Central and Eastern Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- P. 35-48. How did Virgil help forge Lithuanian identity in the sixteenth century?
- P. 81-97. Cultural and national identity in Jesuit Neo-Latin poetry in Poland in the seventeenth century: the case of Sarbiewski
- P. 145-159. Latinitas in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Chronology, specifics and forms of reception
- P. 161-175. Abraomas Kulvietis: humanistic origins of the early Reformation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
