From imagination to political reality? The Grand Duchy of Lithuania as a successor of Rome in the early modern historiography (15th–18th centuries)
At the beginning of the Renaissance Lithuanians understood that to join the civilization of Western Europe, it was necessary to have an appropriate (it means: very long) tradition. Like other countries, they had to create their own myth of origin. The most prestigious tradition was Greek-Roman antiq...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Open Political Science |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/openps-2018-0015 |