by Artūras Dubonis|Darius Antanavičius|Raimonda Ragauskienė|Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė
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The book presents an analysis of the history of the Lithuanian Metrica—the chancellery books of the Lithuanian grand duke—from its formation in the mid-fifteenth century until today. A great deal of new factographic material is revealed, offering new answers to traditional questions on the history of the Lithuanian Metrica and formulating new objectives for future researchers.
This volume analyzes the history of the Lithuanian Metrica—the chancellery books of the Lithuanian grand duke—from the formation of its books in the mid-fifteenth century until now. It reveals how the first Metrica books emerged in the second half of the fifteenth century, discussing the titles given to them in different periods in history, and explains why the Lithuanian Metrica should be considered the state archive of early Lithuania. Material hitherto unknown in academic literature about the fate of the Lithuanian Metrica at the end of the eighteenth century, in the last years of the existence of the joint Polish-Lithuanian state, is also revealed in this account. The book dedicates a great deal of attention to the history of the publication and research of the documents and books of the Lithuanian Metrica, which are now kept in Moscow, Russia, as a historical source.
Artūras Dubonis is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. His research interests are Lithuanian society and sources about its history from the thirteenth to the first half of the seventeenth centuries, and the Lithuanian Metrica. He has published several books of the Lithuanian Metrica and three monographs.
Darius Antanavičius is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. The focus of his research lies in editing Neo-Latin authors dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries concerning the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. He is the author of numerous publications and discoveries in this field.
Raimonda Ragauskienė is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. Her research interests are the social, political and local history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries, especially the history of the Biržai-Dubingiai line of the noble Radziwiłł family and the Lithuanian Metrica. She has published nine monographs and several books of the Lithuanian Metrica.
Ramunė Šmigelskytė-Stukienė is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. The focus of her research is the early modern history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, especially the late eighteenth-century political history and development of political institutions of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. She is an author and editor of several scholarly books.
