Rozmowa Polaka z Litwinem, 1564
Author: Augustinus Rotundus
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 108
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Author: Augustinus Rotundus
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 108
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 102
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Published: 1891
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 91
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert I. Frost
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-07-16
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13: 0192568140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. For 300 years the greatest power in Eastern Europe was the union between the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of Lithuania, one of the longest-lasting political unions in European history. Yet because it ended in the late-eighteenth century in what are misleadingly termed the Partitions of Poland, it barely features in standard accounts of European history. The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 1385-1569 tells the story of the formation of a consensual, decentralised, multinational, and religiously plural state built from below as much as above, that was founded by peaceful negotiation, not war and conquest. From its inception in 1385-6, a vision of political union was developed that proved attractive to Poles, Lithuanians, Ruthenians, and Germans, a union which was extended to include Prussia in the 1450s and Livonia in the 1560s. Despite the often bitter disagreements over the nature of the union, these were nevertheless overcome by a republican vision of a union of peoples in one political community of citizens under an elected monarch. Robert Frost challenges interpretations of the union informed by the idea that the emergence of the sovereign nation state represents the essence of political modernity, and presents the Polish-Lithuanian union as a case study of a composite state. The modern history of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus cannot be understood without an understanding of the legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian union. This volume is the first detailed study of the making of that union ever published in English.
Author: Giedr? Mick?nait?
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9789637326585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does a ruler become "the Great"? Is greatness a part of authority exercised or a part of an image created? These and other questions are addressed in this volume on the life and memory of Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania (r.1392-1430). The study raises a hypothesis that Vytautas was the main engineer of his image as the great ruler while his contemporaries and later generations developed this image and adapted it to their needs and understandings. Investigating the propaganda surrounding the grand duke, this study reveals that, in fact, there were two opposite images: that of a good ruler and that of a tyrant. The paradox is that frequently these opposites were based on the same features of the grand duke's character or episodes from his biography. The research is based on a wide array of written and visual sources as well as on records of oral tradition. Rich and diverse primary materials are analysed from the perspectives of political and social history, memorial culture, as well as iconography and rhetoric.
Author: Jūratė Kiaupienė
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1644693658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe focus of this book is the unique socio-political and socio-cultural community of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the golden age of the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century. This study analyses the cultural and political impact of the values disseminated in the newly created state, such as the concept of the state itself, its governance, representation, laws, and other elements of the socio-political system. Through theoretical and factographic arguments, this book demonstrates that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a social, political, and cultural link between geopolitical and geo-cultural spaces of the Roman West and the Byzantine East. Located at the cultural crossroads of Europe, Lithuania was an ethnically diverse, multilingual, multi-faith, multicultural national space. Nurtured by international contacts, its political system developed rapidly, influencing the formation of geopolitical and geo-cultural mentality of the whole Central Eastern European region.
Author: S. C. Rowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-06
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1107658764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1994, studies the rise of a pagan state in late medieval Christendom against a background of crises in Europe.
Author: British Library
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 888
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 892
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