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Challenging Nobility and Protestants in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth : Jan Chądzyński (c.1602–1660) and the Jesuit Political and Social Thought / Michał Nowakowski.
Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nowakowski, Michał, author.
- Series:
- Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.
- Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Jan Chądzyński (c.1602–1660) and the Jesuit Political and Social Thought
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines how Jesuit political, social, and polemical ideas functioned in seventeenth-century Poland–Lithuania through the case of Jan Chądzyński (c.1602–1660). It reconstructs his biography, establishes his dispersed and often misattributed writings, and analyzes his political and social treatises and anti-Protestant satires. Drawing on Jesuit archival records and textual analysis, the study situates Chądzyński’s views on royal authority, noble liberty, social injustice, and Protestantism within the political debates of the Commonwealth and the wider framework of early modern Jesuit thought in Europe, while showing how local controversies in Vilnius shaped the form and aims of his writing.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Who Was Jan Chądzyński and What Did He Write?
- 1Biography
- 2The Scope of Chądzyński’s Literary Legacy in Light of His Biography
- 2 Chądzyński’s Political Thought and the Jesuits’ Alleged Political Reorientation after the Zebrzydowski Rokosz
- 1Starting Point
- 2The State and iustitia legalis
- 3The Common Good
- 4Political Structure: Preliminary Assumptions
- 5Political Structure: Standard Jesuit Arguments
- 6Political Structure: Chądzyński’s Position and the Historical Context
- 7The King: Role, Prerogatives, Duties
- 8Iustitia distributiva and vindicativa
- 9Law in the Political System
- 10Corrupted System, Corrupted Citizens
- 11Virtue
- 12So What?
- 3 Chądzyński’s Social Thought: on the Rights of Peasants and Slaves
- 1Ius
- 2Dominium
- 3Contractus
- 4Iustitia commutativa
- 5Iniustitia and restitutio
- 6Defense of the Peasants: Their Status
- 7Defense of the Peasants: Abuses
- 8Not Only Peasants
- 9Chądzyński: Defender of Justice?
- 10Slaves
- 11Assembling the Puzzle
- 4 Chądzyński’s Satires and the Vilnius Polemic against Protestants
- 1Preliminary Assumptions and State of the Art
- 2Origins of Polemical Theology at the Vilnius Academy
- 3Vilnius Jesuits against Wolan
- 4Andrzej Jurgiewicz: a Product of the Vilnius Counter-Reformation
- 5Retreat from Theology and the First Vilnius Satires
- 6Crisis and Revival of Polemical Theology in Vilnius
- 7The Final Phase of the Vilnius Polemic
- 8Strategies of Demonization
- 9Protestant Religiosity in the Mirror of Satire
- 10Ancient and Catholic Lutherans
- 11Quarreling Protestants
- 12Ridiculous Martyrdom
- 13Promiscuous Saxon Ladies
- 14Innocent Tumults and Just Punishment
- 15Reassessing Vilnius Polemics and Chądzyński’s Role
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-76363-5
- OCLC:
- 1591748970
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004763630 DOI
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