The genesis of modern Baltic nations and the nobility in the end of XVIII - first half of XIX c. (A comparative historical analysis) by Saulius Pivoras

“…It seems that the major factor in determining the different roles of Lithuanian and Baltic German nobility in ethnonational processes was the ethnogenetical memory.   …”
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Celestial feasts and dances of Mechtild of Hackeborn: The rules of festive etiquette in the Book of Special Grace by M. R. Nenarokova

“…The article examines the relationship between the pictures of the spiritual world in the book by Mechtild of Hackeborn, The Book of Special Grace, and the customs and festive etiquette adopted among the high-born German nobility. The research focuses on visions reminiscent of court festivities, in particular, images of feasts and dances and their symbolic meaning. …”
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Lexis of Latvian-speaking Communities at the Baltic Sea Coast in Latvia and Lithuania: Denominations of the Object kitchen by Ilze Rudzāte

“…The emergence of Germanisms in the Latvian vocabulary related to the kitchen is directly related to the material cultural peculiarities, which were encouraged to Latvian peasants in Kurzeme by the German nobility, and to the Baltic German everyday speech. …”
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« L’ossuaire des Slaves » ? by Roland MARTI

“…Due to German political domination, German nobility and internal colonisation almost the whole area succumbed to Germanisation by the 20th century and thus became an “ossuary of the Slavs” (J. …”
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