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Author: Marius Ščavinskas

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Apie Kryžiaus žygius ir Lindanisės mūšį (Rec. kn.: JENSEN, Carsten Selch. Holy War in the Baltic and the Battle of Lyndanise 1219. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press 2024)

Marius Ščavinskas

https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v46i0.2787

Pub. online: 15 Dec 2025 Type: Book Review

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Journal: Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis Volume 46 (2025): Nexuses of Interaction in the Borderland between Lithuania and Prussia in the Pre-Industrial Period = Sąveikos mazgai Lietuvos ir Prūsijos pasienyje ikiindustrinėje epochoje, pp. 191–197

…dem velde breit zû Dorben – Eiliuotosios Livonijos kronikos 5650, 5707, 5740 ir 5741 eilučių vertimo klausimu | … dem velde breit zû Dorben. On the Translation of Lines 5650, 5707, 5740 and 5741 of the Livonian Rhymed Chronicle

Marius Ščavinskas

https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v46i0.2785

Pub. online: 15 Dec 2025 Type: Research Note

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The research note briefly presents the context of the description of the Battle of Durbe in 1260 in sources, focusing on the Livonian and Prussian traditions in representing the battle. The author specifically compares the description in the late 13th-century Livonian Rhymed Chronicle with the description by Peter of Dusburg, which shaped the Prussian tradition in the first half of the 14th century.

Marius ŠČAVINSKAS – Tęsiami senosios Prūsijos žemių tyrimai (Rec. kn.: SZCZEPAŃSKI, Seweryn. Pomezania. Na styku świata pogańskiego i chrześcijańskiego (studia z dziejów). Olsztyn, 2019. – 267 s. ISBN 978-83-955525-5-7)

Marius Ščavinskas

https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v44i0.2578

Pub. online: 7 Dec 2023 Type: Book Review

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Journal: Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis Volume 44 (2023): Christianisation in the East Baltic: (Re)interpretations of Artefacts, Views and Accounts = Christianizacija rytiniame Baltijos regione: artefaktų, pažiūrų ir pasakojimų (re)interpretacijos, pp. 185–194

Angels Raising Souls to Heaven: Images of Entering Life after Death during the Christianisation of Livonia and Prussia

Marius Ščavinskas

https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v44i0.2572

Pub. online: 7 Dec 2023 Type: Article

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With the Christianisation of the Lithuanians in the Middle Ages, fundamental changes brought new Christian images of the Otherworld and entry to it. The image of souls being raised to heaven by angels is one of the images that emerged in the wake of changes in burial rituals. Based on Medieval historical sources, the article examines the image of the angel ascending to heaven that emerged in Balt and Finno-Ugric countries during their Christianisation. It explains how it is related to the Christian image of the Otherworld, and how it changed the pre-Christian Balt and Finno-Ugric mythical perception of the world beyond. It also explores the question of whether, in the Balt and Finno-Ugric mythical world-view, there may have been companions that conducted the soul in the Otherworld (psychopomps), which are seen as angels in Christianity. The research shows that in the earliest written sources describing ancient Balt and Finno-Ugric burials, there is no mention of spirits or deities acting as psychopomps, or of deities in charge of the deceased. The article argues that converts may have learned about angels raising souls to heaven because burial rituals and the concept of life after death changed in the course of Christianisation in Livonia and Prussia.

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Marius Ščavinskas

https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v44i0.2570

Pub. online: 7 Dec 2023 Type: Introduction

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Introduction

Marius Ščavinskas

https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v44i0.2569

Pub. online: 7 Dec 2023 Type: Introduction

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Įvadas

Marius Ščavinskas Jolanta Skurdauskienė

https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v41i0.2211

Pub. online: 18 Dec 2020 Type: Introduction

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Journal: Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis Volume 41 (2020): Aspects of Southeast Baltic Social History: The 14th to the 18th Centuries = Baltijos pietrytinės pakrantės socialinės istorijos aspektai XIV–XVIII amžiais, pp. 15–21

Introduction

Marius Ščavinskas Jolanta Skurdauskienė

https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v41i0.2210

Pub. online: 18 Dec 2020 Type: Introduction

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Ką 1219 m. įvykiai Mežuotnėje bylojo apie žemgalių visuomenės sanklodą? | What do the Events of 1219 in Mežotne Say about Žemgalian Society?

Marius Ščavinskas

https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v39i0.2116

Pub. online: 18 Dec 2019 Type: Article

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Journal: Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis Volume 39 (2019): The Unknown Land of Žemaitija: The 13th to the 18th Centuries = Žemaitija – nežinoma žemė: XIII–XVIII amžiai, pp. 49–69

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The account of the 1219 treaty between the Lithuanian dukes and Galicia-Volhynia provided by the chronicler of the Ruthenian principality lists briefly several dukes from different areas of what is treated by contemporary historians as the Lithuanian confederation. They include the dukes of Lithuania, Deltuva, Nalšia and Žemaitija, but do not mention representatives of the Curonians, Žemgalians (Semigallians) or Yotvingians. Our knowledge of one of the omitted areas, Žemgala (Semigallia, today southern Latvia and northern Lithuania), is still based on the presumption that its society should have developed according to a more or less similar path as other Baltic societies of that period. The article invites us to reconsider this presumption, focusing on one episode mentioned by Henry of Livonia in his chronicle from the early 13th century. Henry describes how, in 1219, the Žemgalians of the Mežotne (Mesoten) area approached the Bishop of Riga seeking military assistance to defend themselves against the Lithuanians, and, as it became evident during the negotiations, against other Žemgalians. In dealing with this episode, the author attempts to characterise the society of Žemgala, mainly its upper social layer, which could be described considering scarce sources. This leads him to the broader question of whether the development of Žemgalian society was similar to other non-Christian (firstly, Baltic) societies.

Įvadas

Jolanta Skurdauskienė Marius Ščavinskas

https://doi.org/10.15181/ahuk.v39i0.2114

Pub. online: 18 Dec 2019 Type: Introduction

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