Tarp Romos ir Bizantijos: Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės politinės kultūros aukso amžius : XV a. antroji pusė - XVII a. pirmoji pusė

LTMonografijoje nagrinėjama Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės XV amžiaus antrosios-XVII amžiaus pirmosios pusės politinė kultūra, pristatoma šią kultūrą kūrusi ir puoselėjusi politinė tauta, aptariamas šios kultūros savitumas ir jį lėmusios priežastys. Epiloge svarstoma, ar esama saitų, siejančių šiuolaikinės, XXI amžiaus, Lietuvos Respublikos visuomenę su Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės ankstyvųjų Naujųjų laikų politine kultūra. [Anotacija knygoje]

EN[...] The purpose of this research was to test and to substantiate a scientific theory that in late 15th through early 17th century socio-political and socio-cultural community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has created and fostered a peculiar political culture, which in Europe could have been described as phenomenal. This study analyses political stance of the fully privileged estate of nobility and moral values conveyed variously within and without the created state through description of the state, its governance, representation, legal system and other elements of socio-political system. It also evaluates results of the practical incarnation of these values. The research looks for theoretical and factographic arguments to demonstrate that political culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania performed as a socio-political and socio-cultural link, a conduit between geopolitical and geo-cultural spaces of the Roman West and the Byzantine East, forming ethnically diverse, multilingual, multi-faith, multicultural national space, which in the early modern period has become an integral part of the political system of the West. [...] The key component, describing the space in which took place the socio-political and socio-cultural events in question, is understood to be the fact of being in a junction between the western Roman and eastern Byzantine civilizations. To describe this geopolitical and geo-cultural space we a use a metaphor of between Rome and the Byzantine Empire. [...] The research has appropriated concepts of political nation and political culture, which were created and peer-reviewed by the researchers of socio-political and socio-cultural processes as suitable for understanding and describing such processes. Understanding and application of these concepts by historians is still causing significant discussions. [...].To describe the subject of our research, i.e. the fully entitled, multinational, multilingual, multi-faith and multicultural society of nobles that came to life in the space of junction between western (Roman) and eastern (Byzantine) civilizations, the concept of political nation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has been selected. [...] The concept of political culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is understood in a wider sense, i.e. as an aggregate of theoretical political and legal propositions shaped by the socio-political and socio-cultural society (political nation) of the early modern period Grand Duchy of Lithuania, expressing moral orientation and practical actions of creators of this political culture. [...] First part of the book "The landscape of political culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania" is divided into 3 chapters: 1. Geopolitical and geo-cultural space of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; 2. Socio-political and socio-cultural portrait of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; 3. Mythological space of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. [...] The core of the discourse part of this research is the second part of the book - "The content and expression of political culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania". These texts explain how politically active "new type" individuals appeared in society of the early modern period Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and how did their relationship with political community, state, government, law and institutions change. [...] First chapter "The Union: idea and reality of political culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania" discusses well researched by the historians, and seemingly unrelated to political culture, problem of the union with the Kingdom of Poland. [...] In the second chapter "State in political and legal culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania", using various perspectives the idea of sovereign Lithuanian state and efforts to implement it through legal, political and ideological.Chapter "Parliamentary culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania" presents institutions that were promoting this culture: the Sejm (Polish Parliament) and county dietines. It discusses their formation, moral values and ways how those values were implemen-tedas well as achieved results and experienced failures. [...] The third part of the book "Exposures of political culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania" attempts to demonstrate which political values were cherished and promoted by the members of political culture in the early modern Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and how they understood such concepts as state, Homeland, love of Homeland, freedom, public spirit and self-government. [...] The idea to write epilogue titled "Life after life of political culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania" came to life when thinking about current and future Lithuania, its society and political culture. This text is a reaction of an early modern period historian to the problem raised by two contemporary Lithuanian politologists Alvydas Jokūbaitis and Raimundas Lopata in their book Lietuva kaip problema. Filosofiniai istoriniai politikos tyrinėjimai (Vilnius, 2014) (Lithuania as a problem. Philosophical and historical explorations of politics). [...] While discussing some arguments by these politologists in the epilogue we wanted to say that historians have no doubt that political nation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its culture belong to the past. There is not and there cannot be any direct continuity of this early modern period of political life and culture with the 21st century society of the Lithuanian Republic. On the other hand, understanding of political culture helps to notice mental links that connect contemporary societies with the world of previously maintained values and to clarify the use of concepts of political nation and political culture in contemporary Lithuanian political language. [...]. [From the publication]