Search Results - "Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth"

Calvinism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 548-1648 : the churches and the faithful / by Bem, Kazimierz

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Name & Place Conventions -- Timeline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- List of maps -- PART I: The Commonwealth in the Age of Reformation -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Land of Many Sects -- PART II: The Reformed Churches -- Chapter 3: Church polity -- Chapter 4: The liturgy -- Chapter 5: Church discipline -- Chapter 6: The ministry -- Chapter 7: Patterns of piety -- PART III: The Reformed Faithful -- Chapter 8: The nobles convert -- Chapter 9: Few sheep are better than a herd of pigs -- Chapter 10: Calvinists in royal towns -- Chapter 11: Calvinist fishing in Lutheran waters -- Chapter 12: Women & Calvinism -- Chapter 13: The ambiguity of numbers -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.…”
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Disorderly liberty : the political culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eighteenth century / by Lukowski, Jerzy

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Roma-Gypsy presence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (15th-18th centuries) / by Mróz, Lech

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The arrival of the Gypsies to Poland -- Documents -- Gypsies in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th century -- Documents -- Piotr Rotemberg : a Philistine from Egypt minor, with his company -- Documents -- "That there should be no Gypsies in the crown" : times of repressions -- Documents -- Cultural adaptation of Gypsies in the 17th century -- Documents -- Gypsy kings and elders -- Documents -- Gypsies as a criminal element in the 18th century -- Documents -- Gypsies at the landed properties of the Sanguszko and Radziwill families -- Documents -- Conclusions -- Source materials -- List of tables -- List of Gypsy overlords.…”
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Unintended Affinities : Nineteenth-Century German and Polish Historians on the Holy Roman Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. by Kozuchowski, Adam

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Queen Liberty : the concept of freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth / by Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Anna

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Where East meets West : portrait of personages of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1576-1763 : exhibition catalogue / by Malinowski, Jerzy

The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews : contexts, sources and perspectives

Table of Contents: “…The Catholic Church and Jewish books in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the sixteenth to eighteenth century /…”
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Holy dissent : Jewish and Christian mystics in Eastern Europe

Table of Contents: “…"You Will Find It in the Pharmacy" : Practical Kabbalah and the Natural Medicine in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1690-1750 /…”
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The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806 : a European perspective

Table of Contents: “…The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Electoral Saxony in the Early Eighteenth Century: Crisis and Cooperation /…”
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A companion to global queenship

Table of Contents: “…Anna Jagiellon: A Female Political Figure in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, p.67 /…”
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A companion to the Reformation in Central Europe

Table of Contents: “…The lands of the Bohemian crown: conflict, coexistence, and the quest for the true church / Phillip Haberkern -- The Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth / Maciej Ptaszyński -- The Austrian lands / Astrid von Schlachta -- The kingdom of Hungary and principality of Transylvania / Márta Fata -- Reform before reform?…”
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From citizens to subjects : city, state, & the enlightenment in Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus by Murphy, Curtis G.

Table of Contents: “…Enlightened centralism versus civic republicanism in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- We built this city on Magdeburg Law : cities and citizens in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before the first partition -- If only our commission had more power : enlightened centralism and the royal cities after the first partition -- Weaponizing good order : urban politics and civic republicanism in the era of constitutional reform and partition, 1788-1809 -- Enlightened profit-seeking : the private towns of the Zamoyski and Radziwiłł estates in the eighteenth century -- The apogee of enlightened centralism : town and state in the Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic period -- The persistence of the old Commonwealth : cities, nobles, and the state in the western provinces of the Russian Empire -- Conclusion : emancipating citizens into subjects.…”
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The long life and swift death of Jewish Rechitsa : a community in Belarus, 1625-2000 by Kaganovich, Albert

Table of Contents: “…Rechitsa and the Jews under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Under Russian rule, 1793-1917 -- The economy of the town in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Demography of the social-economic landscape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Prerevolutionary Jewish social life and education -- Between revolution and war, 1917-1941 -- Under German occupation, 1941-1943 -- From liberation to the collapse of the USSR, 1943-1991.…”
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Romanesque renaissance : Carolingian, Byzantine and Romanesque buildings (800-1200) as a source for new all'antica architecture in early modern Europe (1400-1700)

Table of Contents: “…Il ruolo della memoria normanna nella cultura architettonica siciliana della prima età moderna / Stefano Piazza -- Polish architecture 'more vetusto . murata' : references to Romanesque buildings in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before 1600 / Barbara Arciszewska -- Byzantine cupolas and the myth of the 'ancient origins' of Venice / Hubertus Günther -- Text and form : the beginnings of architectural history and architectural aesthetics in the far north / Kristoffer Neville.…”
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Money, power, and influence in eighteenth-century Lithuania : the Jews on the Radziwill estates by Teller, Adam

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Citizenship and identity in a multinational commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania in context, 1550-1772

Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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Knowledge Transfer and the Early Modern University by Lepri, Valentina

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Knowledge Transfer and the Early Modern University: Statecraft and Philosophy at the Akademia Zamojska (1595-1627); Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 The Akademia Zamojska: Shaping a Renaissance University; 1 Universities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; 2 The Polish Political System; 3 The School and the City; 4 Organisation of the Academy and Its Models; 5 Study Programmes and Regulations; 6 Doctoral Studies; 2 Migration and Knowledge; 1 Part 1; 1.1 Recruitment of the First Teachers; 1.2 A Varied and Cosmopolitan Teaching Body…”
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Power and the nation in European history

Table of Contents: “…/ Len Scales -- The state and Russian national identity / Geoffrey Hosking -- Ordering the kaleidoscope: the construction of identities in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth since 1569 / Robert Frost -- Nationhood at the margin: identity, regionality and the English crown in the seventeenth century / Tim Thorton -- The nation in the age of revolution / Ian McBride -- Enemies of the nation? …”
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Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century by Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…II: Enduring the crisis : The 'great enterprise' in China, 1618-84 ; 'The great shaking' : Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, 1618-86 ; The 'Ottoman tragedy', 1618-83 ; The 'lamentations of Germany' and its neighbours, 1618-88 ; The agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618-89 ; France in crisis, 1618-88 ; The Stuart monarchy : the path to Civil War, 1603-42 ; Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642-89 -- pt. …”
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Kith, kin, and neighbors : communities and confessions in seventeenth-century Wilno by Frick, David A.

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