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