TY - JOUR AU - Baranauskas, Tomas PY - 2020/04/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Te Peace Treaty of 1219 Between Lithuanian and Volhynian Dukes: Te Problems of Interpretation of the Text JF - Istorija / History JA - istorijoszurnalas VL - 115 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.15823/istorija.2019.115.1 UR - https://ejournals.vdu.lt/index.php/istorijoszurnalas/article/view/1244 SP - 4-27 AB - <p><span class="fontstyle0">Abstract</span><span class="fontstyle1">. Te article discusses the peace treaty of 1219 between the Lithuanian and the Volhynian dukes retold in the Chronicle of Galicia-Volhynia, and reviews the historiography of this treaty. Te retold treaty is compared with contemporary and later treaties, proving that the treaty of 1219 must have been in a written form; the article also discusses its structure. Special attention is paid to the group of the Lithuanian frst fve dukes: based on the grammatical analysis of the formulas of the 13</span><span class="fontstyle1">th</span><span class="fontstyle1">–14</span><span class="fontstyle1">th </span><span class="fontstyle1">century treaties, the article concludes that the word </span><span class="fontstyle0">старѣшеи, </span><span class="fontstyle1">written in its forefront, applies only to Živinbutas, listed as the frst among the fve.</span></p> ER -