Senoji Lietuvos literatūra
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description: Early Lithuanian Literature (Senoji Lietuvos literatūra) is a biannual peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. This academic periodical has been edited by the Department of Early Literature of the Institute since 1992.
publisher: The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore / Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas
language: en
publication name: Senoji Lietuvos literatūra
issn: 1822-3656
items: Chronicle
items: Anotations
items: Каталог молдавских и валашских церковнославянских рукописей в собрании Овчинникова
items: Pre-Mongol Exegetical Hymnography. Part 2: Two Canons for Christmas (Publication of a Source)
items: Lithuanian Editions of Daniel Gottlieb Settegast’s Books on Bees as a Case of Cultural Transfer
items: The Palemon Myth in Samogitia: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century
items: Piarists in Lithuania. An Endeavour to Capture the Essence
items: The Lithuanian Language and Political Self-Awareness of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Texts
items: On the Romanisation of the Vilniusites, or What Cicero Is Doing in the Municipal Statutes of 1620
items: Vilnius and Kraków in Early Latin Poetry of Lithuania and in the History of St Casimir’s Cult: Parallels and Contrasts
items: Foreword
items: Editorial Board and Table of Contents
items: Studies into the Literary Canon Prompted by a Zeal for Unmasking
items: Pre-Mongol Exegetical Hymnography. Part 1: The Canon for the Feast of the Cross (Publication of a Source)
items: The Querelle des Femmes in Sixteenth-Seventeenth-Century Philosophy: Ideas of Platonism and Aristotelianism in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Europe
items: Jean de La Gessée’s Henrias: Literary Features and Sources of Imitation
items: The Relationship of Slavisms and Hybrids in Konstantinas Sirvydas’s Dictionarium trium linguarum (1642) and Promptuarium dictionum Polonicarum, Latinarum et Lituanicarum (1620)
items: The Book Market in the Light of Paratexts of Printed Books in the Kyiv Metropolitanate: Selected Issues
items: https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/sll/en/article/view/45003
items: Annotations
items: Donelaitis’s Translator Was a Poet!
items: Miks Stolperjons, a Satirical Poem from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
items: Miks Stolperjons, a Satire in Verse (the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century): The Manuscript and Two Publications in the Lithuanian Press
items: I Wrote to the Quandt Family and Their Descendants in 1756. Genealogy of the Family Published in the Obituary for Quandt (1772)
items: Genealogy of the Prussian Line of the Quandt Family Written by Johann Jacob Quandt, the Last Bearer of the Surname
items: Recommendation of Heinrich Tilesius, the Rector of the Tilsit Provincial School, to His Pupil Johann Schultz

Chronicle
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description: -
subject: Chronicle
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Viltė Stukaitė
creator: Ona Aleknavičienė
creator: Rimantė Jagelavičiūtė
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 303
ending page: 325

Anotations
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description: Liucija Citavičiūtė, Pirmoji lietuvių kalba parašyta istorijos knyga: Kristupas Danielius Hasenšteinas Nusidavimai švento kariavimo. Studija, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 107 p., iliustr. ISBN 978-609-425-401-7 Kotryna Rekašiūtė, Masonai kultūriniame Prūsijos Lietuvos ir Klaipėdos krašto gyvenime (XVIII a. – XX a. pirma pusė), Vilnius: Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių biblioteka Axel Ernst Walter, Prūsijos Orfėjas. Poeto Simono Dacho savivoka ir kultūrinė recepcija, iš vokiečių kalbos vertė Kristina Sprindžiūnaitė, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2025, 395 p. ISBN 978-609-481-260-6 Prūsijos atmintis ir kultūros paveldas: Mokslo straipsnių rinkinys. Skiriamas Prūsijos kunigaikštystės 500 metų sukakčiai, sudarė Domas Kaunas ir Silva Pocytė, parengė Ona Aleknavičienė, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2025, 160 p. ISBN 978-609-481-264-4 Ona Aleknavičienė, Vilma Zubaitienė (par.), Pilypo Ruigio žodynas Littauisch–Deutsches und Deutsch–Littauisches Lexicon, 1747, t. 1: Faksimilė, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2024, 660 p. ISBN 978-609-07-1133-0 (1 tomas), ISBN 978-609-07-1132-3 (bendras) Vilma Zubaitienė, Pilypo Ruigio žodynas Littauisch–Deutsches und Deutsch– Littauisches Lexicon, 1747, t. 1: Mokslo studija ir kritinis žodyno leidimas, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2024, 1200 p. ISBN 978-609-07-1136-1 (2 tomas), ISBN 978-609-07-1132-3 (bendras) Ona Aleknavičienė, Pilypo Ruigio žodynas Littauisch–Deutsches und Deutsch– Littauisches Lexicon, 1747, t. 3: Mokslo studija ir morfologiškai anotuotas lietuviškų žodžių indeksas, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2024, 960 p. ISBN 978-609-07-1138-5 (3 tomas), ISBN 978-609-07-1132-3 (bendras) Jokūbas Benetas, Andriejus Grinkevičius, Viešpaties dešinės galybė, (Collectanea litterarum Lituaniae, t. 3), iš lotynų kalbos vertė Sigitas Narbutas, [Vilnius]: Lietuvos mokslų akademijos Vrublevskių biblioteka, [2024], 94 p., iliustr., faks., portr. ISBN…
subject: Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Simona Mocejūnaitė - Vaitkienė
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Mindaugas Šinkūnas
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 289
ending page: 302

Каталог молдавских и валашских церковнославянских рукописей в собрании Овчинникова
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description: <p lang="lt-LT" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Александр Дмитриевич Паскаль, Каталог славянских рукописных книг молдавского и валашского происхождения в фондах отдела рукописей РГБ, вып. 1: Собрание П. А. Овчинникова, Москва: Пашков дом, 2024 = Aleksandr Dmitrievich Pascal, Catalogue of Slavic manuscripts of Moldavian and Wallachian origin in the collections of Manuscript Department of the RSL, issue 1: Collection of P. A. Ovchinnikov, Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2024, 359 p.
subject: Reviews
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subject: -
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creator: Sergejus Temčinas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 283
ending page: 288
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.60.09

Pre-Mongol Exegetical Hymnography. Part 2: Two Canons for Christmas (Publication of a Source)
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This is a publication of two exegetical canons for Christmas from a pre-Mongol set of original (untranslated) exegetical canons (dated approximately 1170–1180) for ten ecclesiastic feast days of the Menaion and Triodion cycles. This set originated in Kievan Rus’ and was widely distributed in East Slavonic manuscript tradition. It was also known in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where an exegetical canon for Easter was even translated into the Ruthenian language (I published it in Slavistica Vilnensis, vol. 65(1)). Based on a combination of linguistic, content-related, and intertextual features, this anonymous set of exegetical canons has been attributed to the Jerusalem monk Afanasii (who did indeed live in the Holy Land for some time), known as the author of his ‘Epistle to Panko about the Wood of the Holy Cross’ and the commentator on the ‘Epistle by Kliment Smoliatich [Metropolitan of Kiev from 1147 to 1155 – S. T.] to the Smolensk presbyter Foma’. Despite its widespread use in the manuscript tradition, the set has not been studied and remains virtually unknown to scholars. This publication is based on one of the very few manuscript copies containing the maximum number of texts from this cycle (ten out of twelve): Exegetical Psalter with additions from the early seventeenth century (Novosibirsk, State Public Scientific and Technical Library of Russia, collection of Mikhail Nikolaevich Tikhomirov, No. 41, f. 67–186v).
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Kievan Rus’
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subject: exegetical literature
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subject: hymnography
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subject: Cyrillic manuscripts
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subject: Church Slavonic literature
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creator: Sergejus Temčinas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 265
ending page: 279
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.60.08

Lithuanian Editions of Daniel Gottlieb Settegast’s Books on Bees as a Case of Cultural Transfer
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description: Daniel Gottlieb Settegast (1741–1813), a graduate of the University of Königsberg who came from the territory that is now Poland, worked as a teacher at the school in Prökuls (Lith. Priekulė) from 1763 until his death. At the end of the eighteenth century, he compiled and published three versions of a beekeeping textbook: two in German and one in Lithuanian. These were books intended for popular education. In the mid-nineteenth century, Simonas Daukantas adapted Settegast’s textbook for the residents of Lithuania Major, also for the purpose of public education. Applying the methodology of cultural transfer, this article examines these two Lithuanian editions of Settegast’s book on bees as examples of the adaptation of the ideas of popular enlightenment (German: Volksaufklärung) to different cultural contexts. Settegast was involved in the popular enlightenment movement that gained popularity in Prussia in the second half of the eighteenth century: while working as a teacher in Prökuls, he joined the East Prussian Society for Physics and Economics, which was dedicated to promoting public education. With its support, he wrote and published Bienencatechismus (The Bee Catechism, Königsberg, 1795), a highly popular book about bees in German. Three years later, a slightly revised second German edition of Settegast’s book was published under the title Das Wahre und Nützliche in der Bienen-Zucht (Reliable and Useful Beekeeping Tips, Königsberg, 1798). Another three years later, a Lithuanian version of the book on bees, prepared by Settegast himself – Naudingos Bicʒû Knygeles (Useful Books on Bees, Königsberg, 1801) – was published. It was based on the first German edition of 1795. Having prepared the Lithuanian version of his book, Settegast acted as an agent for conveying the ideas of popular enlightenment to the community of Lithuanian peasants in Prussia. The content of the presentation and the format of the material were tailored to the standards set by the educational …
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: literature of Prussian Lithuania
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subject: popular enlightenment
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subject: book on bees
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subject: Simonas Daukantas
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subject: Romanticism
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subject: cultural transfer
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creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-05-23
publication date: 2026-05-23
starting page: 239
ending page: 261
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.60.07

The Palemon Myth in Samogitia: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">According to the myth of the Roman origin of the Lithuanians recorded in sixteenth-century Lithuanian chronicles, it was Samogitia where Palemon arrived first, and ‘Lithuania started to expand from the Samogitians’. The myth was further developed and originally interpreted by Maciej Stryjkowski (Kronika Polska, Litewska, Żmodźka y wszystkiey Rusi, 1582) and Wojciech Wijuk-Kojałowicz (Historia Litvana, 1650). The reprint of Stryjkowski’s Kronika (1766), the appearance of Franciszek Paprocki’s compendium (first edition in 1760, later editions in 1763, 1771, and 1775), and the former Jesuit Mikołaj Wieliczko, who was the parish priest of Seredžius from 1774 to 1779, should possibly be linked to the emergence of the toponym ‘Palemono kalnas’ (Palemon Hill) in Seredžius (first mentioned in 1779, in the inventory of the Seredžius church). During the first half of the nineteenth century, we see a veritable renaissance of the Palemon myth in Samogitia: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">(1) the proponents of the myth were the ‘literati’ Dionizy Paszkiewicz (Dionizas Poška), Ludwik Jucewicz, Syl…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Palemon
  topic: keywords
subject: myth
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subject: Samogitia
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subject: reception
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subject: topography
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creator: Kęstutis Gudmantas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 183
ending page: 238
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.60.06

Piarists in Lithuania. An Endeavour to Capture the Essence
type: item
description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">As an independent administrative unit, the Piarist Province of Lithuania operated from 1736. Despite the formal division into separate provinces, the Piarists of Lithuania and Poland maintained good mutual relations. In the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Order of the Pious Schools was financially and materially supported by the families of the nobility, the gentry, townspeople, and the secular clergy. Educational and religious endowments and individual bequests enhanced the prestige of each patron, donor, and their families, while the Piarists ensured the proper use of the funds entrusted to them and increased the endowment’s assets. This consideration ensured that the colleges were equipped with libraries and teaching materials. In Lithuania, the Piarists used their own set of regulations (Methodus docendi, 1762), which governed the organisation of schools and the curriculum. They also followed the general principles of the Calasanzian Constitutions, which guaranteed autonomy to each province in choosing its educational model. Piarist schools in Lithuania put into practice a vision of Christian education, which they enriched with civic ideals. At the same time, they aimed at ensuring that education was modern, so considerable attention was paid to the natural and experimental sciences and practical skills. The superiors made sure that the young members of the order were properly prepared for their future educational and teaching responsibilities: the Piarists studied at their own colleges (professoria) and al…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: endowments
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subject: colleges
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subject: printing house
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subject: theatre
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subject: outstanding Piarists
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subject: religious, scientific, public activities
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subject: Piarist ratio studiorum
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subject: educational activities
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subject: Collegium Nobilium
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creator: Magdalena Ślusarska
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 121
ending page: 182
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.60.05

The Lithuanian Language and Political Self-Awareness of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Texts
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The article examines texts in Lithuanian published in the eighteenth-century Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the perspective of political consciousness, taking into account their political and cultural contexts. At the same time, the study considers Jurgis Lebedys’s hypothesis that throughout the eighteenth century, the tradition of caring for the Lithuanian language remained alive in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and that there is a connection between the programme for the Lithuanisation of the state of Lithuania proposed by Mikalojus Daukša in the sixteenth century and the Samogitian and Lithuanian national movements that emerged in the early nineteenth century. <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">In the eighteenth century, the culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was influenced by the historical narrative of Maciej Stryjkowski and Albertas Kojalavičius, which depicted Lithuania as a Lithuanian-speaking Republic of Lithuania founded by the Lithuanian people, ruled by sovereigns of Lithuanian descent, and belonging to the Lithuanian nobility. Throughout the eighteenth century, popular …
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Lithuanian language
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subject: Lithuanian nation
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subject: political consciousness
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subject: political vocabulary
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subject: religious texts
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subject: Age of Enlightenment
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subject: uprising of 1794
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creator: Darius Kuolys
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 84
ending page: 120
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.60.04

On the Romanisation of the Vilniusites, or What Cicero Is Doing in the Municipal Statutes of 1620
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The article seeks to answer the question of why two maxims by Cicero were included at the beginning of the municipal statutes of Vilnius of 1620 and what they meant for the self-image of the Vilniusites. It is proposed that these quotations are not merely an aesthetic embellishment but also a manifestation of humanistic and civic values. Their emergence is linked to the figure of Augustinus Rotundus, the vogt of Vilnius. It is likely that Rotundus, who was a prominent Lithuanian humanist, an expert in Roman law, and an admirer of Cicero’s works, was also the author of the first edition (1551) of the municipal statutes. This article examines the reception of Cicero in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rotundus’s studies at European universities, his literary and legal activities, and his contribution to the formation of the Lithuanians’ Roman political and cultural identity. It is shown that Rotundus’s Ciceronian humanism manifested itself through his advocacy of freedom, the rule of law, civic responsibility, the significance of history, and the importance of education. Emphasis is also placed on the role of the vogt of Vilnius in establishing the Jesuit College of Vilnius, which became the most important centre for the dissemination of Latin culture and Cicero’s literary legacy in Lithuania. The article concludes that Cicero’s maxims in the municipal statutes attest to the Romanisation of the urban elite of Vilnius, their desire to identify with the humanistic values of the republic, and, possibly, their wish to…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Augustinus Rotundus
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subject: Cicero
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subject: Vilnius Jesuit College
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subject: municipal statutes of Vilnius
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creator: Antoni K. Urmański
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 59
ending page: 83
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.60.03

Vilnius and Kraków in Early Latin Poetry of Lithuania and in the History of St Casimir’s Cult: Parallels and Contrasts
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This article aims to draw attention to early literary (poetic) texts dedicated to St Casimir, which were written both before the official approval of his cult in 1602 and immediately after. Most of them were composed and printed in Vilnius. In some of these texts, certain parallels between Vilnius and Kraków are highlighted, while at times, the contrast between the two cities is emphasised. In the article, this motif is discussed and interpreted within the broader context of the historical ties between Vilnius and Kraków, the history of Casimir’s canonisation, and of humanistic literature in general. <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The article is structured in three parts. The first, introductory, section discusses the historical connection between the two capitals, Vilnius and Kraków, which sooner or later was bound to emerge as a poetic theme. This happened even before the Union of Lublin, and perhaps the earliest example of this is a 1514 poem by Jacobus Piso. The fascinating intertwining of sixteenth-century interests of Kraków and Vilnius in the history of St Casimir’s canonisat…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: St Casimir
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subject: canonisation
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subject: St Hyacinth
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subject: Vilnius
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subject: Kraków
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subject: second half of the sixteenth century
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subject: 1604
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subject: Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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subject: neo-Latin poetry
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subject: certamen urbium
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creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 15
ending page: 58
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.60.02

Foreword
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 9
ending page: 12
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.60.01

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
type: item
description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-23
publication date: 2025-07-23
starting page: 1
ending page: 7

Chronicle
type: item
description: -
subject: Chronicle
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Lukas Bieliauskas
creator: Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 193
ending page: 195

Studies into the Literary Canon Prompted by a Zeal for Unmasking
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Viktorija Šeina, Aistė Kučinskienė, <em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Mokyklinis lietuvių literatūros kanonas. Šimtmečio raidos rekonstrukcija<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">: Monografija, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 614 p., ISBN 978-609-425-399-7
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Darius Kuolys
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 159
ending page: 192
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.08

Pre-Mongol Exegetical Hymnography. Part 1: The Canon for the Feast of the Cross (Publication of a Source)
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">This is a publication of an exegetical canon for the Feast of the Cross from a pre-Mongol set of original (untranslated) exegetical canons (dated approximately 1170–1180) for ten ecclesiastic feast days of the Menaion and Triodion cycles. This set originated in Kievan Rus’ and was widely distributed in East Slavonic manuscript tradition. It was also known in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where the exegetical canon for Easter was even translated into the Ruthenian language (the author of this article published it in 2020). Based on a combination of linguistic, content-related, and intertextual features, this anonymous set of exegetical canons has been attributed to the Jerusalem monk Afanasii (who did indeed live in the Holy Land for some time), known as the author of his ‘Epistle to Panko about the Wood of the Holy Cross’ and the commentator on the ‘Epistle by Kliment Smoliatich [Metropolitan of Kiev from 1147 to 1155 – S. T.] to the Smolensk Presbyter Foma’. Despite its widespread use in the manuscript tradition, the set has not been studied and remains virtually unknown to scholars. This publication is based on one of the very few manuscript copies containing the maximum number of texts from this cycle (ten out of twelve): Exegetical Psalter with additions from the early seventeenth century (Novosibirsk, State Public Scientific and Technical Library of Russia, collection of Mikhail Nikolaevich Tikhomirov, No. 41, f. 67–186v.).
subject: Publications
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subject: Kievan Rus’
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subject: exegetical literature
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subject: hymnography
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subject: Cyrillic manuscripts
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subject: Church Slavonic literature
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creator: Sergejus Temčinas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2026-02-17
publication date: 2026-02-17
starting page: 141
ending page: 155
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.07

The Querelle des Femmes in Sixteenth-Seventeenth-Century Philosophy: Ideas of Platonism and Aristotelianism in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Europe
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The article examines the reception of Plato and Aristotle’s philosophy in shaping attitudes towards women in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Europe in the sixteenth–seventeenth centuries. It examines how various philosophical treatises, dialogues, and Aristotle’s commentaries influenced intellectual discourse beyond their cultural origins, thus creating a basis for a philosophical understanding of the role of women in the family and society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The article juxtaposes the views of Platonists and Aristotelians on women. Platonism, especially in Renaissance court culture, offered a more progressive perspective. Through such works as Baldassare Castiglione’s Il cortegiano (1528) and Łukasz Górnicki’s Dworzanin polski (1566; The Polish Courtier), the article highlights the differences between Western European and Polish-Lithuanian court societies. Although constrained by certain patriarchal norms, Castiglione’s lady-in-waiting actively participated in public life by engaging in refined conversation, musical activities, and danc…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Women of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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subject: Plato
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subject: Aristotle
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subject: Bartholomäus Keckermann
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subject: Aaron Alexander Olizarowski
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subject: Olizarovius
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subject: Michał Mniszek
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creator: Dovilė Čitavičiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 112
ending page: 138
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.06

Jean de La Gessée’s Henrias: Literary Features and Sources of Imitation
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The second part of a two-article series continues with the analysis of Henrias, a collection of Latin occasional poems written by a poet of the Valois court who wrote under the pseudonym of Jean de La Gessée, during the election of Henry Valois in 1573. The collection is analysed in terms of literary form, theme, and ideas. The article describes the main motifs and images used to convey the political narrative and propaganda message and to create an ‘epic’ image of Henry Valois, the future ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and reveals the sources of literary influence and imitation. The connections between this collection and La Gessée’s other works are indicated, including those that were likely written by the same author under other pseudonyms. One such work is the epic poem Élection du sérénissime duc d’Anjou, roy de Poulongne [...] published by Paul de Vollant in 1573. The similarities between the text of this poem and Henrias, the circumstances of its publication, and other aspects would allow this poem to be attributed to La Gessée (i.e., the court poet Louis d’Amboise, who used both these pseudonyms; we have examined this identification of the author in previous articles, and it remains the subject of further and more detailed research). <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px…
subject: Articles
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subject: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth century
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subject: Henry Valois
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subject: Neo-Latin literature in the sixteenth century
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subject: Henrias
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subject: Jean de La Gessée
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subject: Louis d’Amboise
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creator: Rasa Marija Šileikienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 68
ending page: 111
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.05

The Relationship of Slavisms and Hybrids in Konstantinas Sirvydas’s Dictionarium trium linguarum (1642) and Promptuarium dictionum Polonicarum, Latinarum et Lituanicarum (1620)
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description: <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The article examines the borrowed lexical elements in Konstantinas Sirvydas’s Promptuarium dictionum Polonicarum, Latinarum et Lituanicarum of 1620 (hereinafter SPr) and the dictionary Dictionarium trium linguarum of 1642 (hereinafter SD). A total of 955 unique Slavisms and hybrids with Slavic roots were selected from SPr and SD, of which 571 words were recorded in SPr and 703 in SD. Among the 703 words attested in SD, 185 Slavisms and hybrids are not only absent from SPr but also lack any common root words in it. These particular loanwords are the focus of this study. The aim was to determine their relationship with SPr and to explore possible reasons why certain Slavisms and hybrids were not used in the earlier dictionary but were recorded in the later one. <p lang="en-GB" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Among the common Slavisms and hybrids used in SD but not found in the SPr, there is a group of words that are not found in SPr due to the fact that the only surviving copy of the Promptuarium is defective, i.e., some pages are missing; today, it is not possible to check the translation of some of …
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Konstantinas Sirvydas
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subject: dictionaries of the seventeenth century
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subject: Slavisms
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subject: hybrids
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subject: native words
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creator: Anželika Smetonienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 52
ending page: 67
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.04

The Book Market in the Light of Paratexts of Printed Books in the Kyiv Metropolitanate: Selected Issues
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description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The article deals with selected issues concerning the functioning of the publishing market in the Kyiv metropolitanate in the first decades after the first Ruthenian typographers became active (up to the mid-seventeenth century). The source base is the paratexts (the preface, the dedicatory letter, the afterword) of books of mainly liturgical and more broadly Orthodox use dominating the books on offer, whose authors were mostly publishers, printers, and editors, acting independently or as members of teams developing the publishing process. In the paratexts, they attempted to explain the reasons for their publishing activity or justify the choice of a particular book. Among the most frequent reasons, they would point out errors occurring in manuscript books, the scarcity or unavailability of particular books caused by various factors, the existence of printed versions but not corrected within the scope of issues concerning liturgical and sacramental-ceremonial practice. In addition, the paratexts contain interesting data on the competition between various printing centres, indicating the difficulties in coordinating and controlling the publishing market by the Metropolitan of Kyiv. The paratextual material also brings interesting evidence on the existence of an in-depth reflection on the role of printing, the importance of books in religious life and in the process of expanding knowledge in the Ruthenian environment in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: book
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subject: paratext
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subject: print
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subject: publishing
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subject: Kyiv metropolitanate
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creator: Alicja Zofia Nowak
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 31
ending page: 51
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.03

https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/sll/en/article/view/45003
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title: The Sermon Against Drunkenness Attributed to St Job of Pochaev as a Manifestation of Serbian and Ukrainian Literary Ties in the Sixteenth–Seventeenth centuries (The Fourteenth-Century Translation of George Hamartolus’s Chronicle)
description: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The article is devoted to a short anonymous sermon against drunkenness in a now lost manuscript that once belonged to the Pochaev Monastery and is believed to have been written by St Job of Pochaev (<em style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">c<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">. 1551–1651) in his own hand. Nikolai Petrov, who studied the codex, named it ‘Pchela Pochaevskaya’ (Pochaev’s Melissa) and published this sermon as one of St Job’s works. The attribution of the manuscript and several anonymous sermons contained therein to Job of Pochaev was met with reasoned criticism but is nevertheless recognised by contemporary scholars. The article…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: church Slavonic homiletic
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subject: early Ukrainian literature
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subject: George Hamartolus’s chronicle
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subject: Job of Pochaev
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subject: Serbian and Ukrainian literary ties
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creator: Sergejus Temčinas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 19
ending page: 30
doi: 10.51554/SLL.25.59.02

Foreword
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Asta Vaškelienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 9
ending page: 16

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-01
publication date: 2025-12-01
starting page: 1
ending page: 7

Chronicle
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description: -
subject: Chronicle
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Ona Aleknavičienė
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Kęstutis Gudmantas
creator: Raimonda Meyer-Ravaitytė
creator: Simona Mocejūnaitė- Vaitkienė
creator: Jūratė Pajėdienė
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Tadas Šaulys
creator: Eleonora Terleckienė
creator: Viktorija Vaitkevičiūtė Verbickienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 235
ending page: 264

Annotations
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description: Axel E. Walter, Orpheus Prutenus. Selbstkonzept und Rezeption des Dichters Simon Dach, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2020, 415 p. ISBN 978-609-481-083-1 Deutsche Gelehrte und die baltischen Sprachen, hrsg. von Harald Bichlmeier, Christiane Schiller und Silke Brohm, (Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Baltische Studien 5), Hamburg: baar, 2024, 194 p. ISBN 978-3-935536-50-9 Kęstutis Daugirdas, Andrius Volanas ir reformacija Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje, monografija, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 445 p. ISBN 978-609-425-385-0 Alkiškių, Šiaulių, Žeimelio evangelikų liuteronų parapijos ir jų archyvai, sudarė Ernestas Vasiliauskas, Klaipėdos universiteto Baltijos regiono istorijos ir archeologijos institutas, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2024, 239 p. ISBN 978-609-481-187-6
subject: Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-27
publication date: 2025-01-27
starting page: 227
ending page: 233

Donelaitis’s Translator Was a Poet!
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description: -
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Alina Kuzborska
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 218
ending page: 225
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.11

Miks Stolperjons, a Satirical Poem from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
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description: -
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 196
ending page: 217
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.10

Miks Stolperjons, a Satire in Verse (the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century): The Manuscript and Two Publications in the Lithuanian Press
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description: Miks Stolperjons is a 192-line satirical poem written in Lithuanian in the second half of the nineteenth century (before 1879). The plot of the poem consists of a series of comic situations in which the protagonist, Mikas, keeps falling into due to his clumsiness and lack of good manners. The semi-German personal name Stolperjons (Ger. stolpern ‘to stumble’) in the title indicates that this is probably a translation. Two original quatrains are inserted into the text of the satire that mock the uncultured behaviour typical of Prussian Lithuanians. In its language and artistic expression, Miks Stolperjons is consistent with the general level of Prussian Lithuanian poetry of the time. Today, three versions of the text are known: the manuscript and two publications in the press. The manuscript copy of Miks Stolperjons is part of a notebook of poems in the Manuscript Department of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (shelf mark: F163–1086, fol. 13r–17v). The manuscript contains later corrections and additions in darker black ink in a different hand, which are not reflected in the publications. The first publication of the satirical poem appeared in Gothic type in the Prussian Lithuanian newspaper Lietuviška ceitunga of 23 September 1879. The text published here is almost identical to the manuscript text. The publication in Latin characters in the American Lithuanian newspaper Vienybė lietuvninkų of 8 July 1896 was slightly edited: the spelling and language were modernised. In the manuscript, the authorship of the Lithuanian text of the poem, with a question mark, is attributed to Mikelis Šapalas (1827–1887), a Prussian Lithuanian public figure, teacher, poet, translator, and an active contributor to the Lietuviška ceitunga. In the Lietuviška ceitunga, the poem is signed with X., a very popular pseudonym used by many authors at the time. In Vienybė lietuvninkų, the pen-name Lietuvaitė M. S. appears under the poem. It was used by Joana Tamošauskait…
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Literature of Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
subject: satirical poem
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subject: manuscript
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subject: publication
  topic: keywords
subject: author
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creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 186
ending page: 195
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.09

I Wrote to the Quandt Family and Their Descendants in 1756. Genealogy of the Family Published in the Obituary for Quandt (1772)
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description: -
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Mindaugas Strockis
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 152
ending page: 185
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.08

Genealogy of the Prussian Line of the Quandt Family Written by Johann Jacob Quandt, the Last Bearer of the Surname
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description: Johann Jacob Quandt (1686–1772), the general superintendent of Prussia, is well-known in the history of Lithuanian literature and culture as a promoter of Lithuanian writing in eighteenth-century Prussian Lithuania. About a dozen Lithuanian books were produced under his care. He involved students and graduates of the University of Königsberg in the writing process. It is not known what prompted Quandt to write the genealogy of his family and when he started this work, but it is known that he finished it in 1756 and left the manuscript to his nephew, Johann Christoph Bohlius (1703–1785). After his death, Quandt’s personal archive was reviewed and some of the documents were included in the obituary ‘To the Man While He Lived […] Magnificent [...] Johann Jacob Quandt’ (Viro, dum viveret, magnifico [...] Johanni Jacobo Quandt [...], Königsberg, 1772). This obituary was the first publication of the genealogy of eight generations of the Quandt family. The Quandts established themselves in Königsberg in the sixteenth century; the Teutonic Knights or their descendants may have been the founders of this branch of the family. The obituary with the genealogy of the Quandts is kept at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw (Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie, sign. SD XVIII.4.1170 adl.). Quandt’s manuscript has not survived or has not been found. Many of the men of the Quandt family had been educated at the University of Königsberg, served in government posts, were priests, and one was a merchant engaged in commerce. The men of the family usually chose the daughters of priests as their wives, making it an elite family. Of the Quandt family, three of its representatives are better known today: Jacobus, the great-grandfather of Johann Jacob Quandt, his father Johann, and our Johann Jacob Quandt, the general superintendent of Prussia, the preacher of the royal court, and first professor of theology. The appended source was translated from the Latin by Dr Mindaugas Strockis.
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Jonas Jokūbas Kvantas
  topic: keywords
subject: Johann Jacob Quandt
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subject: Karaliaučius
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subject: Königsberg
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subject: genealogy of the Quandts
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subject: literary texts of Quandt’s funeral
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creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 137
ending page: 151
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.07

Recommendation of Heinrich Tilesius, the Rector of the Tilsit Provincial School, to His Pupil Johann Schultz
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description: The article discusses and presents, along with its translation into Lithuanian and commentaries, a document kept at the Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Ger. Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz) in Berlin (shelf mark: GStA PK: I. HA GR, Rep. 7 Preußen, No. 191 [1685–1703]). It is a copy of the recommendation written on 30 April 1695 by Heinrich Tilesius (1666–1732), the rector of the Tilsit provincial school, to the pupil Johann Schultz (Jonas Šulcas, ~1678–1709), a future theology student at the University of Königsberg, a priest in Prussian Lithuania, and the translator of the first Lithuanian book of literary fiction, Die Fabeln Aesopi (Aesop’s Fables, Königsberg, 1706). Tilesius’s recommendation is important for several reasons. This archival source provides information about the Tilsit provincial school: the name of Johann Schultz extends the list of the school’s well-known pupils, evidences the most important subjects included in the curriculum of the time, and reveals some of the competences of the schoolmaster. Tilesius’s Latin text is an example of a recommendation written in a high or almost Ciceronian style of eloquence; it is a distinctive rhetorical piece demonstrating the excellent classical education of the rector of the provincial school of Tilsit. The recommendation also adds new details to the biographical information on Johann Schultz, the pupil of this school, a future creator of Lithuanian literature, or, more precisely, provides some facts about his education prior to his studies at the University of Königsberg: not only did he go to the provincial school in Tilsit, but he also attended the Latin school in Insterburg, where, besides learning Latin, he also studied Greek and acquired knowledge of poetry, philosophy, and, in particular, rhetoric. Schultz’s teachers included not only Heinrich Tilesius, but also Johann Picker (~1640–1693), a well-known pedagogue of the time, a follower of Philipp Jacob Spener …
subject: Publications
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subject: Prussian Lithuania
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subject: Tilsit provincial school
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subject: Heinrich Tilesius
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subject: Johann Schultz (Jonas Šulcas)
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creator: Birutė Triškaitė
creator: Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 107
ending page: 135
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.06