Citizenship and identity in a multinational commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania in context, 1550-1772 / edited by Karin Friedrich and Barbara M. Pendzich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Friedrich, Karin.

Pendzich, Barbara M.

Series:

Studies in Central European histories ; v. 46.

Studies in Central European histories, 1547-1217 ; v. 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Poland--History.

Citizenship.

Group identity--Poland--History.

Group identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume seeks to address the doubts harboured by the West about the ability of East Central European states to build modern democracies and tolerant societies after the expansion of the European Union eastwards. The tradition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is thereby often overlooked in favour of the nationalist romanticism and xenophobia of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, which arose from the specific context of the partitions of 1772-95. Yet citizenship in a multinational context was a central theme of the political debate in early modern Poland-Lithuania. For many contemporary religious and national conflicts, this Commonwealth cannot be a direct model for imitation, but may serve as a source of inspiration due to the creative solutions and compromises it negotiated while integrating many faiths and ethnicities. Contributors are James B. Collins, Karin Friedrich, Gershon David Hundert, Joanna Kostyło, Krzysztof Łazarski, Allan I. Macinnes, Barbara M. Pendzich, Felicia Roşu, Barbara Skinner, and Artūras Vasiliauskas.

Contents:

Monarch, citizens, and the law under Stefan Batory : the legal reform of 1578 / Felicia Roșu

Citizenship in the periphery : royal Prussia and the Union of Lublin 1569 / Karin Friedrich

The practice of citizenship among the Lithuanian nobility, ca. 1580-1630 / Artūras Vasiliauskas

Civic resilience and cohesion in the face of Muscovite occupation / Barbara M. Pendzich

Identity formation in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth / Gershon David Hundert

Khmelnytsky's shadow : the confessional legacy / Barbara Skinner

Commonwealth of all faiths : republican myth and the Italian diaspora in sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania / Joanna Kostylo

'County republicans' and the concept of active citizenship in sixteenth-century Poland and France / James B. Collins

The hidden commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania and Scottish political discourse in the seventeenth century / Allan Macinnes

Freedom, state and "national unity" in Lord Acton's thought / Krzysztof ¡azarski.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-299) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39966-7

9786612399664

90-474-4233-4

OCLC:

567681403

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004169838.i-311 DOI