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Kith, kin, and neighbors : communities and confessions in seventeenth-century Wilno /

In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, Calvinist, and Lutheran churches, one synagogue, and one mosque. Visitors reg...

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Main Author: Frick, David A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Vilnius (Lithuania) > History > 17th century.
Vilnius (Lithuania) > Social life and customs > 17th century.
Vilnius (Lithuania) > Religion > 17th century.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780801467530
0801467535
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Over the quartermaster's shoulder
  • The neighbors
  • One roof, four walls
  • The bells of Wilno
  • Speaking, writing, stereotyping
  • Birth, baptism, godparenting
  • Education and apprenticeship
  • Courtship and marriage
  • Marital discontents
  • Guild house, workshop, guild altar
  • Going to law : the language of litigation
  • War, occupation, exile, liberation (1655-1661)
  • Old age and poor relief
  • Death in Wilno
  • Epilogue : conflict and coexistence.

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