The smallest Slavonic nation: the Sorbs of Lusatia.
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780485111293
Subjects: Sorbs; Lusatia (Germany) -- History
Description: xiv, 201, [8] p. illus., facsim., maps, ports. 23 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [186]-190.
Table of contents: class: section
title: Contents … ix; class: section
title: List of Illustrations … xi; class: section
title: Abbreviations. Note on Proper Names … xiii; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: INTRODUCTION; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Location and distribution … 1; class: section
title: Sorb, Wend, or Lusatian … 3; class: section
title: National status … 5; class: section
title: Sorbian studies … 6; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 1. HISTORY; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Prehistory and the earliest sources … 8; class: section
title: Slavonic migrations … 8; class: section
title: German expansion … 9; class: section
title: Unity with Poland … 11; class: section
title: Christianization … 11; class: section
title: United under the Czech Crown … 12; class: section
title: Limited use of Sorbian by the Church … 13; class: section
title: The Thirty Years War … 14; class: section
title: Sorbian students … 15; class: section
title: The Congress of Vienna … 16; class: section
title: Economic changes … 17; class: section
title: Social changes … 18; class: section
title: The intelligentsia … 19; class: section
title: National consciousness and Panslavism … 21; class: section
title: The events of 1848 … 23; class: section
title: The students' societies … 26; class: section
title: The Maćica Serbska … 28; class: section
title: Construction of the ‘Sorbian House’ … 29; class: section
title: The unification of Germany 1871 … 30; class: section
title: The World War 1914-18 and claims for independence … 31; class: section
title: Under the Weimar Republic … 32; class: section
title: The Nazi period 1933-45 … 35; class: section
title: The Liberation … 36; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 2. LITERATURE; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Early Sorbian literature … 41; class: section
title: The beginnings of journalism … 45; class: section
title: Poetry before Handrij Zejler … 48; class: section
title: Rudolf Mjeń … 51; class: section
title: Handrij Zejler … 51; class: section
title: After Zejler … 60; class: section
title: Jan Radyserb-Wjela … 61; class: section
title: Jan Mučink … 64; class: section
title: The literary journals … 67; class: section
title: Lower Sorbian writers … 69; class: section
title: Jakub Bart-Ćišinski … 72; class: section
title: Into the twentieth century … 77; class: section
title: The revival … 79; class: section
title: Developments since 1945 … 85; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 3. LANGUAGE; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Relation to the other Slavonic languages … 90; class: section
title: Position within the West Slavonic group … 92; class: section
title: Exclusively Sorbian features … 97; class: section
title: Two languages or one? … 99; class: section
title: The dialects: features distinguishing Upper from Lower Sorbian … 110; class: section
title: Transitional dialects … 113; class: section
title: Upper Sorbian dialects … 113; class: section
title: Lower Sorbian dialects … 114; class: section
title: Early history … 115; class: section
title: Development of the standard languages … 117; class: section
title: Secularization and purism … 118; class: section
title: Europeanisms and Czech loans … 118; class: section
title: Standardization of Lower Sorbian … 119; class: section
title: Unification of Protestant and Catholic variants … 120; class: section
title: Plans for unification of Upper and Lower Sorbian … 121; class: section
title: Increased Catholic influence … 122; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 4. FOLKWAYS AND FOLKLORE; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Traditions … 123; class: section
title: National costumes … 123; class: section
title: Easter customs … 126; class: section
title: The Spinning Evenings … 129; class: section
title: Other customs … 130; class: section
title: Folk-literature … 132; class: section
title: Local legends … 136; class: section
title: Folktales … 137; class: section
title: Folk-art … 139; class: section
title: Folklore and nationality … 142; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 5. MUSIC; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Folk-music … 143; class: section
title: The collection of folk-songs and folk-music … 147; class: section
title: Smoler’s classification … 150; class: section
title: Characteristics of the Sorbian folk-song … 151; class: section
title: External influences … 154; class: section
title: Musical composition … 155; class: section
title: Korla Awgust Kocor … 156; class: section
title: The Sorbian choral movement … 157; class: section
title: Other composers … 158; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: 6. THE POSITION TODAY; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Political … 161; class: section
title: Education … 163; class: section
title: Higher education and teacher supply … 167; class: section
title: The language … 168; class: section
title: Publishing … 172; class: section
title: Newspapers and periodicals … 175; class: section
title: Radio and television … 177; class: section
title: The theatre … 179; class: section
title: The Domowina … 180; class: section
title: Survival of traditions and folklore … 182; class: section
title: Sorbian studies and research … 183; class: section
title: Prospects for the future … 184; class: section
title: ◦; class: section
title: Select Bibliography … 186; class: section
title: Index … 191