Description:
The book presents an analysis of the history of the Lithuanian Metrica--the chancellery books of the Lithuanian grand duke--from its formation in the mid-fifteenth century until today. A great deal of new factographic material is revealed, offering new answers to traditional questions on the history of the Lithuanian Metrica and formulating new objectives for future researchers.
Brief description: Artūras Dubonis is a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian Institute of History. His research interests are Lithuanian society and sources about its history from the thirteenth to the first half of the seventeenth centuries, and the Lithuanian Metrica. He has published several books of the Lithuanian Metrica and three monographs.