| Is Part of |
Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis: Dvarų kultūra: erdvės, istorija, architektūros paveldas = Manor culture: spaces, history, architectural heritage.. Vilnius : Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla. 2020, Nr. 97, p. 254-301.. ISSN 1392-0316. eISSN 2783-6843 |
| Abstract [eng] |
The development of housing and, alongside, the appearance and development of manors at the border of Livonia and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania have so far not received enough research attention. After the Battles of Grunewald in 1410 and Wilkomierz in 1435, which marked the end of intense fighting in these lands, the Bauska Castle was built in the middle of the 15th century, and the processes of colonisation started. The Votic people of Finnish origin (German Kreewing, Latvian krieviņi) were settled in the sparsely inhabited territory of Eastern Semigallia. The intensifying deforestation and the densifying network of settlements brought about a need for border regulations (1426, 1473, 1529, 1541, 1545, 1582, 1583–1586, 1587). At the same time, in the 15th century, the Livonian Order started to distribute manor properties in Semigallia to its vassals. The earliest recorded Finno-Ugric form of the name of the Lieporai Manor – Żybort muÿża/moÿża (1539, 1586) (Lithuanian ‘manor’ – muyza, moyze, dialectal muižė, Livonian moize, mois, Estonian mõis, Votic moise, mõiza) is most likely related to these colonisation processes. [...]. |
