History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: state, society, culture
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Anglų kalba / English
Title:
History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: state, society, culture
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Publication Data:
Frankfurt am Main [etc.] : Peter Lang, 2015.
Pages:
573 p
Series:
Polish studies – transdisciplinary perspectives; vol. 13
Notes:
Kitas leidimas: Historia Polski, 1572-1795. Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2008.
Contents:
Editors’ preface — Introduction — History of a society, not of a nation — The question of nations in the early modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth — Structure and periodization — The state of research and literature on the subject — Physiognomy of the Commonwealth — Names, emblems, capitals — Geographical position and natural conditions — Federative Commonwealth — Territory — Mastery of space — Borders — Territorial and border changes to the end of the 18th century — Political system and form of government — Political terminology — Legal political orders of mixed government — Institutions of central government — Central offices of the Commonwealth — Local administration — Parliamentary system — Confederation and Rokosz (rebellion) — General Sejmiks and convocations in Lithuania — Sejmiks — Towards a constitutional monarchy — Political system of the 1794 insurrection — Ideas of political system after the loss of independence — Three pillars of power: judiciary, finances, and army — Heritage of the estate monarchy — Codifications and sources of law — The judiciary — Fiscal and financial matters — Military system — The state and the churches — Relations between the state and churches in the early modern Commonwealth — Christian churches in the Commonwealth of the 16th-18th centuries — Evolution of the state policy towards religion, the 16th-18th centuries — Economy — The place of the Commonwealth within European economy — The crisis of the 17th century — Commerce — Transportation — Agriculture — Horticulture and fruit farming — Animal husbandry — Forestry — Fishing industry — Crafts — Industry — Economic changes in the 18th century — Society — Population changes since the end of the 16th century towards the end of the 18th century — Estates of the realm — The nobility — The clergy: estate or estates? — The Burgher estate? — The peasant estate? — Ethnic-legal groups — Groups outside the law —Ethnic and confessional divisions — Multiethnicity and multiculturalism in the cities — Changes in the social structure during the Enlightenment — Peasant reforms in the 18th century — The Enlightenment civic nation — Social bonds and conditions of life — Family and marriage — Social environment — Social bonds in the confessional institutions — Social care — Hygiene and health — Life standard — Housing — Clothes and hairstyle — Culture and ideology — Models of culture — Noble culture and Sarmatism — Urban culture in the Commonwealth of the 16th and the 17th centuries — Popular culture – folk culture — Folklore — Religiousness — The Enlightenment – an ideological and cultural breakthrough — The romantic rehabilitation of Sarmatism — Social communication – education – alphabetization — The system of social communication in the 16th-18th centuries — Languages of communication — Literacy and alphabetization — Education — Catholic education — Protestant education — Orthodox education — Education of the ethnic-legal groups — Studies abroad — Military education. Projects of the school of chivalry in the Commonwealth of the 16th-17th centuries — The reform of education in the 18th century — Art – science – literature — Terminology and -periodization — Mannerism — Baroque — Mature Baroque (1630-1670) — Late Baroque and Rococo (1670-1770) — The era of king Stanislaw August Poniatowski — Conclusions — Glossary of Polish and Latin terms — List of Polish monarchs — Main historical events of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1573-1795 — Bibliography — Studies — Sources — Maps and diagrams — List of Polish geographical names and their English or naturalized counterparts — Index of people — Index of geographical names.
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Recenzija leidinyje
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. 2017, vol. 65, no. 4, p. 661-663
Summary / Abstract:
ENThe book presents an outline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 16th to the 18th century and offers a view of the realities of political life, organization of the judiciary, the economy, coexistence of different ethnic groups and religions, high and popular culture and achievements of art. While the federal character of the state and multicultural society is often overlooked in the synthesis of this period, the creation of civil society in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the cultural heritage was the joint achievement of its residents, regardless of their state and ethnic divisions.
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-05491-0
ISBN:
9783631629772; 9783653054910 (elektroninis)
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