Journal:Lietuvos istorijos metraštis
Volume 2024, Issue 1 (2024): Lietuvos istorijos metraštis 2024 metai 1, pp. 65–80
Abstract
The article deals with the activities of the Vilnius Magistrate’s Court between 1795 and 1813. It discusses the personal composition of the court, the working environment of the judges, and judicial and administrative practices that are relevant and offer an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the economic, financial, social, and familial problems of the urban residents and their relations with other estates and strata of the urban population.
Journal:Lietuvos istorijos metraštis
Volume 2024, Issue 1 (2024): Lietuvos istorijos metraštis 2024 metai 1, pp. 33–64
Abstract
Based on genealogical data, the article investigates the marriage policy of the Gorski family (Nałęcz coat of arms) from its establishment in Samogitia in the second half of the sixteenth century to its rise in the first half of the eighteenth century. First, a general portrait of the
spouses is analysed (the social status, economic capacity, offices held, geographical origin), and then the ‘marriage market’ of this family and the factors that had shaped it are examined in greater detail (kinship ties, land tenure, confession).
Journal:Lietuvos istorijos metraštis
Volume 2024, Issue 1 (2024): Lietuvos istorijos metraštis 2024 metai 1, pp. 5–32
Abstract
The article deals with our research on the Ruthenian documents of Alexander Jagiellon and Sigismund the Old, the grand dukes of Lithuania, which cover the whole period of the reign of these rulers (1492–1544) and are kept in Vilnius. In the course of empirical research, we registered 142 such documents; the main data about them are represented in the annex to the article. Meanwhile, in the main part of the article we try to identify the scribes who were responsible for the preparation of the documents, to identify the documents that were written by the scribes who signed them, and to discuss the palaeographic features of all the documents.
Journal:Lietuvos istorijos metraštis
Volume 2023, Issue 2 (2023): Lietuvos istorijos metraštis 2023 metai 2, pp. 149–162
Abstract
The article focuses on the activities of the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners of the Anti-Nazi Resistance in Germany and the USA, an organisation that has not been studied in the historiography so far. It was founded in 1946 to care for the repressed participants of the
anti-Nazi resistance and their families but it went beyond the narrow boundaries of humanitarian aid to its members and became involved in the anti-Soviet struggle of the Lithuanian diaspora. In 1948 and 1952, the word ‘anti-Nazi’ was dropped from its name. The organisation united the Lithuanians repressed by the Nazi and Soviet regimes. The article analyses the circumstances of the founding of the union, its aspirations and achievements, and the reasons for its changing identity.
Journal:Lietuvos istorijos metraštis
Volume 2023, Issue 2 (2023): Lietuvos istorijos metraštis 2023 metai 2, pp. 121–147
Abstract
The article presents the political decisions affecting associations and the ideological attitudes underlying them in Lithuania during the 1930s. The 1936 Law on Associations narrowed the autonomy of voluntary associations creating a need for the government to argue for intervention in the affairs of associations. The leaders of the authoritarian regime relied on the idea of organised society based on close cooperation between associations and the state. The article explores the concept of organised society and its links with corporatism, and looks at the plans of the authorities to reform associations. The aim is to assess the extent to which political decisions affecting associations, the idea of organised society, and corporatism were against or in line with the ideals of civil society.