Uladzimir Kananovich

former visiting scholar at Trinity College

In this paper, I contribute to three main themes of the seminar: 1.) Media of eschatology, 2.) Apocalyptic expectations as an expression of social and political tensions, and 3.) Eschatology and the Reformation. I deal with the eschatological thinking in the time of Reformation by focusing on a single case. More precisely, the paper seeks to explai...

Most of knowledge about the past we possess is based mainly on the memories of humans who once reported what they saw or heard. It was their memories that eventually found expression in various sources, both written and pictorial, which now serve as a basis for historians, in their attempts to reconstruct a vanished past. So, it appears that the sc...

The paper examines the process of forging a new historical memory in a particular area of the late medieval and early modern Eastern Europe. Because of contemporary intellectual controversy in present-day Lithuania and Belarus over its role in the early Grand Duchy of Lithuania, I have chosen for the study the historical land of Navahrudak. In orde...