Britain and Poland-Lithuania : contact and comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795 / edited by Richard Unger, with the assistance of Jakub Basista.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Unger, Richard W.

Basista, Jakub

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Series:

Northern world 1569-1462 ; v. 37.

The Northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Poland.

Great Britain.

Poland--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Poland.

Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.

History.

Great Britain--History--1485-.

Poland--History--To 1795.

Scotland--History.

Scotland.

Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

xliii, 486 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Summary:

In twenty-four papers scholars from Europe and North America examine various aspects of the economies, politics and culture of Britain and Poland-Lithuania from the Middle Ages down to the Third Partition. The similarities between the two seemingly different regions are as surprising as the long-standing connections between the British Isles and East Central Europe. Commercial ties were complemented by migration and by cultural exchange with writers, philosophers and artists in both regions taking an interest in the other. In sections devoted to religion and toleration, trade, diasporas, political theory, and stereotypes among others the authors present a new and unexpected history of the relationship between two states which politically up to 1795 went in opposite directions.

Contents:

A Note on Proper Names xiii

Taking Stock-Looking Forward / Richard Butterwick xxix

Part I The Middle Ages

Contacts

Early Commercial Contacts between England, Prussia and Poland / Nils Hybel 3

England's Contacts with Poland-Lithuania in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries / Wendy R. Childs 19

Polish Ships in English Waters in the Later Middle Ages / Maryanne Kowaleski 39

Comparisons: Religion, Society, and Culture

Preaching on Martyr-Bishops in the Later Middle Ages: Saint Stanislaus of Krakow and Saint Thomas Becket / Stanislava Kuzmova 67

The Papacy and the Nations of Scotland and Poland, c. 1250-1334 / Sarah Layfield 87

Holy Frontiersmen? Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-century Monastic Colonisation and Socio-Economic Change in Poland and Scotland / Richard D. Oram 103

Border Communities between Violence and Opportunities: Scotland and Pomerania Compared / Emilia Jamroziak 123

Polish and English Peasants in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: a Comparative View / Piotr Guzowski 137

England and Poland: Medieval Metropolises Compared / Derek Keene 147

Part II The Early Modern Period

Polity, Diplomacy and War

The Commonwealth and Monarchia Mixta in Polish and English Political Thought in the Later Sixteenth Century / Tomasz Gromelski 167

Poland and Britain against the Ottoman Turks: Jerzy Ossolinski's Embassy to King James I in 1621 / Pawel Rutkowski 183

Liberty, Virtue and the Chosen People: British and Polish Republicanism in the Early Eighteenth Century / Benedict Wagner-Rundell 197

Religion and Toleration

Corollaries of Commerce between England and Gdansk (Danzig) in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Romance, Heresy, Employment, and Epidemic / John Fudge 217

Witch-hunting in Poland and England: Similarities and Differences / Brian P. Levack 233

Polish Religious Persecution as a Topic in British Writing in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century / Beata Cieszynska 243

Diasporas

Krakow Citizenship and the Local Scots, 1509-1655 / Waldemar Kowalski 263

The Nation Epidemical: Scoto-Britannus to Scoto-Polonus / Arthur H. Williamson 287

Britain and Gdansk (Danzig) in the Eighteenth Century as a Case Study for Cultural Transfer-the interdependence of the 'bourgeois public' and the social activities of British residents in Gdansk in a period of enlightened 'Anglophilia' / Almut Hillebrand 305

Impressions and Stereotypes

Scotsmen and the Polish Nobility from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century / Peter Paul Bajer 329

The View from the Margins: Ireland and Poland-Lithuania, 1698-1798 / Roisin Healy 355

The Picture of England and Englishmen in Polish Memoirs during the Reign of Stanislaus Augustus (1764-1795) / Dariusz Rolnik 375

Ideas and Art

Polish-English (British) Philosophical Contacts and Comparisons from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century / Jan Wolenski 391

Echoes of the East: Glimpses of the 'Orient' in British and Polish-Lithuanian Portraiture of the Eighteenth Century / Aleksandra Koutny-Jones 401.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-468) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9789004166233

9004166238

OCLC:

191727957