The Nobility of the Kaunas district in the local Sejmiks of 1615 and 1632

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Straipsnis / Article
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
The Nobility of the Kaunas district in the local Sejmiks of 1615 and 1632
In the Journal:
Rocznik Lituanistyczny, 2023, 9, p. 73-95
Summary / Abstract:

ENBased on the instructions of the Kaunas sejmiks of 1615 and 1632, the article’s author analyses the questions resolved by the nobility of the Kaunas district and the reality of the life of the district and the Commonwealth at that period. A particular focus is given to how diff erent state processes and events were reflected in the sejmiks of the Kaunas district. The analysis of the instructions of the Kaunas sejmik revealed that the main topics discussed by the local nobility were political and state management issues, legal and economic questions, regional defence problems, delimitation issues of the GDL and the Kingdom of Poland, problems of religious communities, and personal requests of individual nobles. The instructions of Kaunas sejmiks of the seventeenth century are a significant source that provides knowledge about the political activities of the local nobility. Keywords: Kaunas district, nobility of Kaunas district, sejmik, instructions, Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

DOI:
10.12775/RL.2023.9.05
ISSN:
2450-8446; 2450-8454
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2025-07-29 19:18:42
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