Jogailos ir Vytauto laikai ; Times of Jogaila and Vytautas : collection of articles for the 600-year anniversary of Grunwald battle

This book focuses not on the Battle of Grunwald and the military affairs of this epoch, but on the political, social and cultural processes, which took place in Lithuania and Poland during the governance of Jogaila and Vytautas the Great, the epoch of the Great War between the allies Lithuania and Poland and the Teutonic Order, in other words, political, social and cultural context of the War. The most important events and the processes and events that came out from them in both countries during the governance of Jogaila and Vytautas the Great are long-lasting partnership between Lithuania and Poland by the conditions of the personal / dynastic union together with The Lithuanian Grand Duke Jogaila coronation to the King of Poland in 1386, as well as the Christianization of Lithuania in 1387, its Christianization together with integration into the cultural space of the Western Europe, the governance of Vytautas the Great in Lithuania, full of innovation and public and cultural life (from 1362 until 1430), the victory in the Battle of Grunwald, which removed the threat of the Teutonic Order in 1410, the exceptional situation of both lords in the Central Eastern Europe region. The book discusses the political history of Lithuania, Poland and the Central Western Europe from the end of the fourteenth century to the beginning of the fifteenth century. But the intention is that the political history does not overshadow the culture of these countries, public arrangements and history of social thought. Majority of book items are about these things. The authors of this book are Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian historians.