title: Such different Latysh: The variability of the meaning of the ethnonym in Russian documents of the 16th–17th centuries
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metadata.value: Verkhovtsev, Dmitriy Vladimirovich
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-11T14:04:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-09-11T14:04:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Verkhovtsev D. V. Such different Latysh: The variability of the meaning of the ethnonym in Russian documents of the 16th–17th centuries. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2020, vol. 1 (27), pp. 161–178.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2020.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19442
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Russian documents of the 16
  th–18th centuries contain a large number of references to Latysh. They
  are not always associated with the area of the Baltic speaking population, more recently known under this
  name. Until now, these cases have been considered by historians only locally, on the materials of a particular
  source. So the phenomena as a whole wasn’t explained, and the full history of «other» Latysh remained
  undescribed. The author traces the history of the onym Latysh, that covers various regions of Eastern Europe
  in the historical period from the beginning of the Livonian War to the end of the 17th century. The study is
  based on the documents of the Livonian War, scribal books, correspondence relating to the Swedish-Russian
  borderland that emerged after the Stolbov Peace. The outbreak of the Livonian War and the encounter of
  Moscow campaigners with the non-Orthodox foreign-speaking population of the Livonian Order caused
  a significant number of references to Latysh in Russian-language sources. In the early sources there is a
  broad meaning of the term, extended to all non-orthodox peasants, regardless of their language affiliation.
  But there is also a narrow meaning (in the texts of international treaties), which refers only to the Balticspeaking peasants of Livonia. Later, the term is widespread to various regions of the Moscow State through
  the withdrawal of captives from Livonia, who retained the external name «Latysh», as well as through the dissemination throughout the Moscow state territory of campaigners, who had service experience in Livonia.
  Campaigners continued to call people belonging to the western branch of Christianity (for example, the
  peasants of Finland and Ingermanland) «Latysh». This situation led to the appearance of a super-wide meaning
  of the term «Latysh», that meant foreigners in general, and this meaning was preserved at a later time in some
  regional dialects. Thus, the term had several narrow and broad meanings that were applied in various regional
  and all-Russian contexts and in most cases was not an ethnonym in the literal sense.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 1 (27)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnonyms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latvians
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Livonian War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Karelia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ingermanland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnic categorization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ingermanland Finns
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Estonians
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnic categories
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnicity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Such different Latysh: The variability of the meaning of the ethnonym in Russian documents of the 16th–17th centuries
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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