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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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=671426 |
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.