Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Editor’s Note

Translator’s Note

1. The Cosmography of Pope Pius II in an Elegant Description of Europe and Asia [Cosmographia Pii Papae in Asiae et Europae eleganti descriptione] (1458) by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) (extract)

2. Polish Histories [Historiae Polonicae] (1455–80) by Jan Długosz (extracts)

3. The Life and Manners of Cardinal Zbigniew [Vita et mores Sbignei cardinalis] (1480) by Filippo Buonaccorsi (extract)

4. Treatise on the Two Asian and European Sarmatias and on Those Things Contained in Them [Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis Asiana et Europeana et de contentis in eis] (1517) by Maciej z Miechowa (extracts)

5. Two Books on the Antiquities of the Prussians [De Borussiae antiquitatibus libri duo] (1518) by Johannes Stüler (Erasmus Stella) (extracts)

6. Pastoral Preface from Simple Words of Catechism [Catechismusa prasty szadei] (1547) by Martynas Mažvydas

7. On the Customs of the Tatars, Lithuanians, and Muscovites [De moribus Tartarorum, Lituanorum et Moschorum] (ca. 1550) by Michalo the Lithuanian (extracts)

8. A Description of Sarmatian Europe [Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio] (1581) by Alessandro Guagnini (extracts)

9. Little Book on the Sacrifices and Idolatry of the Old Prussians, Livonians, and Other Neighbouring Peoples [Libellus de sacrificiis et idolatria veterum Borussorum, Livonum, aliarumque vicinarum gentium] (1553/1561) by Jan Malecki and Hieronim Malecki

10. On the Gods of the Samogitians, of the Other Sarmatians, and of the False Christians [De diis Samagitarum caeterorumque Sarmatarum, et falsorum Christianorum] (1582) by Jan Łasicki

Bibliography

Index