Pilėnai is a place that looms over the landscape of Lithuanian history. It is a place shrouded in legend and…
Baltic Paganism, surviving in Europe up until the very late Medieval times, gave rise not only to hostility among the…
Lithuanian and Polish ethnic territories did not have a common border in the Middle Ages because they were separated by…
Life in the Baltic lands in the middle ages was full of dangers. In the 13th century, the old rivalries…
The romantic attitude towards the pagan Lithuania, shaped in the 19th century, remains tenacious up to these days. Romantic authors,…
Alcohol, produced by fermenting liquids, has been known in many continents and cultures from as far back as the stone…
Human sacrifice is attributable to the most forbidding customs of ancient tribes. Among Asian and European cultures, it permeated unevenly.…
Issues related to the history of slavery in Lithuania have neither been properly studied nor have they drawn a greater…
It is believed that already the second Bishop of Vilnius after Lithuania‘s conversion to Christianity could have spoken the Lithuanian…
In terms of civilization, Byzantium represents the Christianized East, however if we travelled almost completely straight in a southwest direction,…
