Between Rome and Byzantium

Jūratė Kiaupienė was educated at the University of Vilnius, and was a senior research officer of the Institute for Lithuanian History in Vilnius and a professor of Vytautas the Great University (Kaunas). The focus of her research is the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Her publications include: “Mes Lietuva”. Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės bajorija XVI a. (viešasis ir privatus gyvenimas) (2003); The History of Lithuania before 1795 (edited, 2000); and Lietuvos istorija, vol. 4 and 5 (2009, 2013).

• PrefaceIntroductionPart 1. The Landscape of the Grand Duchy of Lithuaniaʼs Political CultureThe Geopolitical and Geocultural Space of the Grand Duchy of LithuaniaA Sociopolitical and Sociocultural Portrait of the Grand Duchy of LithuaniaThe Mythological Space of the Political Culture of the Grand Duchy of LithuaniaPart 2. The Makeup and Manifestation of the Political Culture of The Grand Duchy of LithuaniaUnion—The Idea and Reality of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's Political CultureThe State in the Political and Legal Culture of the Grand Duchy of LithuaniaThe Grand Duchy's Culture of ParliamentarismPart 3. "We, the Nation of Lithuania"—Uncovering the Values of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's Political CultureBibliography

“Jūratė Kiaupienė, a historian known for [her] scholarship on the Baltic region and east-central Europe, has written a comprehensive and detailed history of the political development of Lithuania from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries. [Her] description and persuasive analysis are based on a wide range of primary sources and expert use of the existing literature. … The principal contribution of this learned, richly detailed treatise lies largely in its ability to show how, over the course of two centuries, disparate political elites with diverse interests, religions, and cultures built a state. … The book should stand for some time as the most thorough account of the emergence of early modern Lithuania.”—Martin O. Heisler, University of Maryland, Hiperboreea