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David A. Frick - Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno - 9780801451287 - V9780801451287
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Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno

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Description for Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno Hardback. Num Pages: 512 pages, 25, 7 black & white halftones, 13 maps, 4 black & white line drawings, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUF; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 168 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1028.

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 regularly commented on the relatively peaceful coexistence of this bewildering array of peoples, languages, and faiths. In Kith, Kin, and Neighbors, David Frick shows how Wilno’s inhabitants navigated and negotiated these differences in their public and private lives.

This remarkable book opens with a walk through the streets of Wilno, offering a look over the royal quartermaster’s shoulder as he ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801451287
SKU
V9780801451287
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About David A. Frick
David Frick is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Polish Sacred Philology in the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation: Chapters in the History of the Controversies (1551–1632) and Meletij Smotryc’kyj.

Reviews for Kith, Kin, and Neighbors: Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno
Frick's work is an inspiration and a treasury of information to any scholar dealing with almost any aspect of early-modern European history. It is exuberant in detail, yet not overburdened; such a book could have been written very differently. Frick leads the reader by the hand through the streets of a city throbbing with life, echoing to the sounds of ... Read more

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