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Foreword to the English Edition | ix | |
Abbreviations | xi | |
List of Maps and Figures | xiii | |
Part 1 | Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 | The Concept of Baltic Studies | 3 |
Chapter 2 | The Origins and Meaning of the Term 'Baltic' | 6 |
Chapter 3 | Environment | 14 |
Chapter 4 | Amber and the Amber Route | 23 |
Part 2 | The Baltic Tribes and Peoples | 37 |
Chapter 1 | The Indo-European Urheimat and Proto-Language | 39 |
1.1. | Difficulties in writing about prehistory | 39 |
1.1.1. | Archaeology | 41 |
1.1.2. | Physical anthropology | 43 |
1.1.3. | Language history | 47 |
1.2. | The Kurgan theory (M. Gimbutas) | 57 |
1.3. | The Asiatic Urheimat hypotheses | 63 |
1.4. | Language tree and diffusionism | 66 |
Chapter 2 | The Baltic Urheimat and Proto-Language | 70 |
2.1. | The question of Balto-Slavic unity | 70 |
2.2. | The Baltic proto-language | 74 |
2.3. | The archaic nature of the Baltic languages | 77 |
2.4. | The Baltic Urheimat | 80 |
Chapter 3 | The Venet(d) Question | 85 |
Chapter 4 | The First References to the Balts | 98 |
4.1. | The Budini | 101 |
4.2. | The Neuri | 102 |
4.3. | The Aestii or Aisti | 104 |
4.4. | The Velts | 107 |
4.5. | The Stavanoi | 107 |
4.6. | The Sudini | 108 |
4.7. | The Galindians and the Golyad's | 108 |
4.8. | The Boruski or Borusi | 111 |
Chapter 5 | The Baltic Tribes | 113 |
5.1. | Power relations in the Baltic region: The Viking period | 113 |
5.2. | The Couronians | 116 |
5.3. | Power relations in the Baltic region: the Slavic, Lithuanian, and German periods | 118 |
5.4. | The conquest of Livonia | 122 |
5.5. | Drang nach Osten | 126 |
5.6. | The East Balts | 128 |
5.6.1. | The Latvians | 128 |
5.6.2. | The Leitis | 132 |
5.6.3. | The Lithuanians (Zemaitians and Aukstaitians) | 138 |
5.6.4. | The Zemgalians | 142 |
5.6.5. | The Selonians | 145 |
5.7. | The West Balts | 147 |
5.7.1. | The Prussians | 147 |
5.7.2. | The Jatvingians | 158 |
Chapter 6 | The Baltic Peoples | 164 |
6.1. | The Prussians | 164 |
6.2. | The Latvians | 167 |
6.2.1. | Kurzeme | 170 |
6.2.2. | The Duchy beyond the Daugava | 170 |
6.2.3. | Latgale | 172 |
6.3. | The Lithuanians | 176 |
6.3.1. | Lithuania Minor | 192 |
Part 3 | Baltic Languages and Dialects | 205 |
Chapter 1 | Common Baltic | 207 |
Chapter 2 | West Baltic Languages | 209 |
2.1. | The Prussian language | 209 |
2.2. | The Jatvingian language | 216 |
Chapter 3 | The Couronian Language | 217 |
Chapter 4 | East Baltic Languages | 219 |
4.1. | The Latvian language | 219 |
4.2. | The Latgalian language | 224 |
4.3. | The Lithuanian language | 225 |
Part 4 | Baltic Mythology | 231 |
Chapter 1 | Prehistory, Folklore, Mythology | 233 |
Chapter 2 | How Far Back Does Baltic Antiquity Reach? | 253 |
Chapter 3 | Myths and Systems of Myths | 267 |
Chapter 4 | The Theory of Social Formation | 271 |
Chapter 5 | Polydoxy, Prototheism, Polytheism | 275 |
Chapter 6 | Shamanism | 276 |
Chapter 7 | Baltic Mythological Systems | 278 |
7.1. | Baltic prototheism | 278 |
7.1.1. | Deivas | 279 |
7.1.2. | Perkunas (Perkons) | 282 |
7.2. | Baltic polydoxy | 289 |
7.2.1. | Interpretatio christiana | 296 |
7.2.2. | Interpretatio classica (Romana, Graeca) | 304 |
7.3. | Baltic 'polytheism' | 307 |
7.3.1. | The Prussian 'gods' of reliable sources | 308 |
7.3.2. | The Lithuanian 'gods' of reliable sources | 309 |
7.3.3. | The Prussian 'Pantheon' | 312 |
7.3.4. | The Lithuanian 'pantheon' | 316 |
Chapter 8 | Baltic Cults | 318 |
8.1. | Idols | 318 |
8.2. | Sanctuaries | 319 |
8.2.1. | Romova | 320 |
8.2.2. | The sanctuary of Vilnius (The legends of Sventaragis and Gediminas) | 321 |
8.3. | Priests | 326 |
8.3.1. | Sicco | 326 |
8.3.2. | The tuliss and the ligash | 327 |
8.3.3. | The sovij (an addition to the Malalas Chronicle) | 330 |
8.3.4. | Krive | 337 |
8.3.5. | Kunigas | 339 |
8.3.6. | Zynys, waidelott, Wisten, macitajs | 340 |
Part 5 | Conclusion Own and Alien in History | 343 |
Bibliography | 357 | |
Index | 405 |
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