Vilniaus burmistro Luko Markovičiaus „Mundijaus“ kalbos, laiškai ir kiti raštai (1551-1584) ; The speeches, letters and other writings of the burgomaster of Vilnius Lucas Markowicz 'Mundius' (in the years 1551-1584)

The documents disclosing the dispute that occurred in the years 1551-1584 among the Vilnius town ruling elite, i.e. between the burgomaster Lucas Markowicz, nicknamed "Mundius", and the town government, are published with the aim to contribute to a comparatively modest number of the available sources on the 16th century town history. L. Markowicz "Mundius" is one of the most frequently mentioned Vilniu's townsmen of the 16th century in the European historiography, who made his way into it because of his active participation in the process on a European scale, i.e. in radical reformation. In this regard another participant of the universal European movement - Renaissance cultural movement - the voight of Vilnius, humanist Augustinus Rotundus Mieleski cannot match him. Therefore, everything connected with this uncommon controversial figure is worth a special attention. It can be stated on the basis of the remaining documents that his legal dispute with the town government, lasting more than thirty years, was also unique. Currently we know of no other similar case from the 16th century Vilnius. It is questionable whether there could be more of such cases (A. Ragauskas, Tarėjo arijono Luko Markovičiaus (m. po 1583) ir miesto valdžios konfliktas XVI a. vidurio Vilniuje [The Dispute Between the Counsellor Lukas Markovičius (died after 1583) and the Town Government in the Middle of the 16th Century Vilnius], Lituanistica, 2004, t. 60, Nr. 4, p. 1-23). Not all of the sources published here have yet been used in the researches, and some of them, apparently because of paleographic problems, have not always been read and interpreted accurately ; Vilniaus pedagoginis universitetas ; Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas ; Švietimo akademija