Chronicle of Bychowiec

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The Chronicle of Bychowiec ( also called Letopis of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania ) is a chronicle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from an anonymous author . Although it is one of the most unreliable sources of the period, it is considered to be the most complete edition of the Lithuanian chronicles. Its name comes from the discoverer of the manuscript , the Polish historian Aleksander Bychowiec , who lived in the 19th century. The chronicle was discovered in 1830 and made known by Theodor Narbutt , who published it in full in 1846. It is a defense document of various magnate families of the Grand Duchy and was probably written under the supervision of the Grand Chancellor of Lithuania , Albertas Goštautas , between 1519 and 1542, with some parts being added until 1574.

The chronicle describes the events in the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 13th to the early 16th centuries. It can be divided into the description of the wars between Lithuania and Poland , the wars between Lithuania and Ruthenia and the wars against the East Slavic principalities in what is now Belarus , Russia and the Ukraine . She also deals with the fighting against the Mongol invasion and the Teutonic Order .

The chronicle was published in 1907 in the Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (in Volume 17, Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei ), in which the 25 most important East Slavic manuscripts are compiled.

Although it is one of the most unreliable Slavic chronicles, the Bychowiec Chronicle is generally believed to use many medieval documents as its sources. In a comparative text analysis, however, an attempt was made to prove that the final source of the Bychowiec Chronicle was in fact only the Galician-Volhyn Chronicle , presumably in a copy or in excerpts, which differ only slightly from the versions known today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jarosław Nikodem (2002). Przyczyny zamordowania Zygmunta Kiejstutowicza. ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Беларускі Гістарычны Зборнік - Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne 17 (Polish). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kamunikat.fontel.net
  2. ^ Rowell, SC (1994). Sources. In: Rosamond McKitterick : Lithuania Ascending A Pagan Empire Within East-Central Europe. 1295-1345. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press . Page 43. ISBN 0-521-45011-X .
  3. ↑ George A. Perfecky: The Galician-Volynian Chronicle as a source of the Bykovets' Chronicle. Studia Ucrainica. 2 (1984). Pages 111-118.

literature

  • George A. Perfecky and other authors. "Galician-Volynian Chronicle". Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature. Academic International Press (1987). Pages 97-100. Biblio.
  • Nadežda Morozova (2002). "LDK metrašciu kalbos ir tekstologijos problemos: Bychovco kronika" . Lithuanian Historical Studies 7 (Lithuanian).

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