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Auteur(s) : Frost, Robert I.
Titre(s) : The making of the Polish-Lithuanian union, 1385-1569 [Texte imprimé] / Robert Frost
Titre d'ensemble : The Oxford history of Poland-Lithuania ; vol. 1
Lien au titre d'ensemble : Appartient à : The Oxford history of Poland-Lithuania
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Oxford University Press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-564 p.) : ill., cartes, tables généal. ; 24 cm
Collection : Oxford history of early modern Europe
Lien à la collection : Oxford history of early modern Europe
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 495-523. Notes bibliogr. Glossaire. Index
The 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.
This book 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
Sujet(s) : Pologne -- 1386-1572 (Jagellons)
Lituanie -- 1386-1569
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198208693 (rel). - ISBN 0198208693 (rel)
EAN 9780198208693
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44365814w
Notice n° :
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