Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345 AUTH-12717547 Published: 10/18/2002

Published: 10/18/2002

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Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345 AUTH-12717547 Published: 10/18/2002From 1250 to 1795 Lithuania covered a vast area of eastern and central Europe. Until 1387 the country was pagan. How this huge state came to expand, defend itself against western European crusaders and play a conspicuous part in European life are the main subjects of this book. Chapters are devoted to the types of sources used, to the religion of the ancient Balts (and the discovery of a pagan temple in Vilnius in the late 1980s), and to Lithuanian