The formation of religious identity in the court of the Dukes of Courland (on manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library)
The present article surveys the formation of confessional identity in the Duchy of Courland in the XVI century at the example of religious education Wilhelm, son of Gotthard Kettler. The article based on the exercise book of Duke Wilhelm (BAN. O 118). A treatise on the education of the Calvinist theologian Kiesewetter (BAN. Q 163), dedicated to the family of Wilhelm’s son, Duke Jacob, indicates a change in a religious policy at a Courland court in the second half of the XVII century.