Common Roots of the Latvian and Estonian Literary Languages

Contents: Kristiina Ross/P teris Vanags: Common roots of the Latvian and Estonian literary languages - Preface - Toomas Paul: Map of Livonia: Beschryvinghe van Lyflandt, ca 1630. Cultural context of the formation of written (literary) Estonian - Janis Kr sli s: Early modern textuality: A Baltic perspective - Aivar Põldvee: Peasant schools in Estland and Livland during the last quarter of the 17th century - Mara Grudule: Latvian poetry in Livland and Courland in the 17th century and beginning of the 18th - Kristi Viiding: The literary background of early Estonian secular writing: the current situation and future perspectives in research - Liina Lukas: Baltic-German literature and Estonian literary studies - P teris Vanags: Latvian texts in the 16th and 17th centuries: beginnings and development - Heli Laanekask/ Kristiina Ross: The language of Tartu and Tallinn in 17th-century Livonia - Lidija Leikuma: The beginnings of written Latgalian - Kristiina Ross: Estonian Bible translations - Everita Andronova: Research on the earliest (16th-17th c.) Latvian texts: the past twenty years (1985-2005) - Külli Habicht: Estonian studies of old literary Estonian.

The Editors: Kristiina Ross, born 1955, is researcher at the Institute of the Estonian Language in Tallinn. Her main field of research is the early history of literary Estonian, especially the history of Estonian Bible translations.
P teris Vanags, born 1962, is professor of the Baltic languages at the University of Latvia in Riga and at Stockholm University. His main fields of research are connected with the history of the Baltic languages, especially the early written period (16th-18th century) of Latvian.