The Research of the History of the Book in Lithuania: Historical Evolution and Contemporary Status

Abstract

The article presents systematically summarized findings on the origin and development of research on the history of the book in Lithuania by defining the most important stages and by identifying significant authors and their works, and disclosing how they perceived the content of the history of the book. Specific cases from Lithuania are used to illustrate some peculiarities that characterize the development of the history of the book in Eastern Europe during the last two hundred years.