1st Edition

Foreword to The Past A Cultural History of the Baltic People

By Endre Bojtar Copyright 2000
440 Pages
by Central European University Press

Over time at least four meanings have been attributed to the term 'Baltic' - drawing on thirty years of extensive research, Foreword to the Past is the first modern introduction to the enigma of the Baltic origins and the self-identification of the Baltic people. The book is divided into three distinctive parts: the first part recounts the history of the Baltic peoples relying on archaeological... Read more
Foreword, Part 1: Introduction, Part 2: The Baltic tribes and peoples, Part 3: Baltic languages and dialects, Part 4: Baltic mythology, Part 5: Conclusion

Biography

Endre Bojtár is Senior Research Associate of the Institute of Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.