This book is a study of the relatively unknown field of Baltic linguistic historiography associated with the 16th century. This has been the "saeculum mirabile" of Baltic philology, not only on account of the first books having appeared during that period, but also due to the diverse linguistic ideas about the Baltic languages which were circulating during Renaissance Palaeocomparativism: the Slavic and the closely connected Illyrian theory, the Latin theory (with its variants: the semi-Latin, the neo-Latin, and the Wallachian), also the Quadripartite theory. Minor but significant linguistic...
This book is a study of the relatively unknown field of Baltic linguistic historiography associated with the 16th century. This has been the "saeculum...
No text was as widely disseminated in early Baltic literature as Martin Luther s Small Catechism. In fact, it marked the dawn of the literature of all three Baltic languages. This comparative study of the Old Prussian, Old Lithuanian, and Latvian versions of Small Catechism gives insight about the idiosyncrasies of the Old Prussian version and the work of its translator.
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No text was as widely disseminated in early Baltic literature as Martin Luther s Small Catechism. In fact, it marked the dawn of the literature of ...
