Preface
Note on Geographic Names
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Karin Friedrich
PART I. INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION: CITIZENSHIP IN THE
POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH
1. Monarch versus Citizens, and the Law under Stefan Batory: the
Legal Reform of 1578, Felicia Roşu
2. Citizenship in the Periphery: Royal Prussia and the Union of
Lublin 1569, Karin Friedrich
3. The Practice of Citizenship among the Lithuanian Nobility during
the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century, Artūras
Vasiliauskas
4. Civic Resistance and Cohesion in the Towns of the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania during the Polish-Muscovite War of 1654-1667, Barbara M.
Pendzich
PART II. THE COMMONWEALTH OF MANY NATIONS AND FAITHS
5. Identity Formation in the Early Modern Polish Commonwealth,
Gershon Hundert
6. Political and Religious Tensions in the Late Eighteenth-Century
Ruthenian-Russian Borderlands, Barbara Skinner
7. Commonwealth of All Faiths: Republican Myth and the Italian
Diaspora in Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania, Joanna Kostyło
PART III. NOTIONS OF CITIZENSHIP: THE EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE
DIMENSION
8. ‘County Republicans’ and the Concept of Active Citizenship in
Sixteenth-Century Poland and France, James B. Collins
9. Comparative Commonwealths: Poland and Scotland in the
Seventeenth Century, Allan Macinnes
10. Freedom, State and ‘National Unity’ in Lord Acton's Thought,
Krzysztof Łazarski
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Karin Friedrich, Ph.D. (Georgetown University, 1995), Senior
Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. Author of The
Other Prussia. Poland, Prussia and Liberty 1569-1772 (CUP
2000).
Barbara Pendzich, Ph.D. (Georgetown University,1998), doctorate on
the reaction of various social groups in the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania to the Polish-Muscovite war of 1654.
"The value and importance of this volume are evident. The authors
convincingly challenge pessimistic views about Polish-Lithuanian
history. Indeed, ideas and practices prevalent in the sixteenth
century were in many instances more advanced than those in other
European countries. But then came the devastating wars, which
filled most of the seventeenth century, brought periods of foreign
occupation, and resulted in a general decline in all spheres of
life. Polish parliamentarism and republicanism became perverted;
invasions by Orthodox and Protestant powers bred intolerance. The
Golden Age of the Res Publica was over. Does that mean that the
germs of decay were inherent in it? Most countries experience
greatness and decline, so why single out the Commonwealth and dwell
mainly on the latter? Many such questions come to one’s mind when
reading this thought-provoking book." – Piotr S. Wandycz, in:
Slavic Review, 69/3 (Fall 2010)
"The volume lives up to its self-declared historiographical aims.
Its purpose was not to offer a new interpretation of the Polish
monarchy, but rather to investigate the relationship between power
and the practical role of citizens. Here it discloses interesting
and valuable information. Additionally, an index, a glossary, and
an extensive bibliography, listing printed sources and secondary
works, make this volume useful and accessible." – Christian
Preusse, Oriel College, University of Oxford, in: H-Net Reviews
(January 2010)
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