English translations of 15th and 16th-century Latin sources on Baltic religion and mythology : recenzija

ENFrancis Young is a UK-based historian and folklorist focusing on Church history, popular religion, and folklore. He is the author and editor or co-author of over 20 books on the history of Early Modern English Catholicism, monasticism, the cult of St Edmund, the history of exorcism, witchcraft, magic, and British folklore. He has a PhD in history from Cambridge University. He is a professional indexer of academic books, and a translator specialising in Medieval and Early Modern Latin. He is also a reader and lay canon in the Church of England. "Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic. Sixteenth-Century Ethnographic Accounts of Baltic Paganism" is a collection of translations into English of ten historic sources on Baltic paganism in Latin. Although the book’s subtitle states that it covers the 16th century, in fact the timeframe is broader by almost half a century, and covers the period from 1458 to 1582, and is called by the author ‘the “long” sixteenth century. [Extract, p. 177]