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The smallest Slavonic nation: the Sorbs of Lusatia.

xiv, 201, [8] p. illus., facsim., maps, ports. 23 cm.

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Publisher
Athlone Press
Language
English
Pages
201

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The smallest Slavonic nation: the Sorbs of Lusatia.
1972, Athlone Press
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Table of Contents

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

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [186]-190.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
914.3/15
Library of Congress
DD491.L348 S86 1972

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiv, 201, [8] p.
Number of pages
201
Dimensions
23 cm

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5328342M
ISBN 10
0485111292
ISBN 13
9780485111293
LCCN
72181314
OCLC/WorldCat
1164782, 263655053, 250340341
Goodreads
4274435

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