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Polonia Reformata

Essays on the Polish Reformation(s)

By: Piotr Wilczek

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Polonia Reformata

Essays on the Polish Reformation(s)

By: Piotr Wilczek

In his fascinating new book, Polonia Reformata. Essays on the Polish Reformation(s), Professor Piotr Wilczek of the University of Warsaw discusses selected aspects of Polish early modern religious history and literature, introducing them from a new perspective and emphasizing the great role of Poland's radical Reformation in European intellectual life. At the same time, the author presents the varieties of religious experience and expression to be found in the Polish-Lituanian Commonwealth, and questions certain myths about Poland's Reformation and Counter-Reformation history and culture, which have featured in European historiography at least since the publication in 1685 of Stanislas Lubieniecki's Historia reformationis Polonicae. The book's general introduction about Polish "religion on the periphery" is followed by essays on the reception of John Calvin's works, the role of Socinianism, religious polemics and the major religious poets of the early modern period, including Jan Kochanowski, probably a Lutheran in his youth and an Erasmian Catholic later in life, and Erazm Otwinowski, the finest Polish-language poet in the community of the Polish Brethren (Socinians). In this engaging study, Professor Wilczek also looks at the broader European contexts that played an important role in the development of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Central and Eastern Europe. This meticulously researched book will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in early modern religion, culture, literature and history.

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Polonice et latine

By: Piotr Wilczek

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Polonice et latine

By: Piotr Wilczek

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Uniwersytet Slaski

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Polonia Reformata

Essays on the Polish Reformation(s)

By: Piotr Wilczek

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Friars on the Frontier

Catholic Renewal and the Dominican Order in Southeastern Poland, 1594–1648

By: Piotr Stolarski

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Friars on the Frontier

Catholic Renewal and the Dominican Order in Southeastern Poland, 1594–1648

By: Piotr Stolarski

Focusing on the Dominican Order's activities in southeastern Poland from the canonisation of the Polish Dominican St Hyacinth (1594) to the outbreak of Bogdan Chmielnicki's Cossack revolt (1648-54) this book reveals the renovation and popularity of the pre-existing Mendicant culture of piety in the period following the Council of Trent (1545-64). In so doing, it questions both western and Polish scholarship regarding the role of the Society of Jesus, and the changes within Catholicism associated with it across Europe in the early modern period. By grounding the rivalry between Dominicans and Jesuits in patronage, politics, preaching, and the practices of piety, the study provides a holistic explanation of the reasons for Dominican expansion, the ways in which Catholicisation proceeded in a consensual political system, and suggests a corrective to the long-standing Jesuit-centred model of religious renewal. Whilst engaging with existing research regarding the post-Reformation formation of religious denominations, the book significantly expands the debate by stressing the friars' continuity with the medieval past, and demonstrating their importance in the articulation of Catholic-noble identity. Consequently, the monograph opens up new vistas on the history of the Counter-Reformation, Polish-Lithuanian noble identity, and the nature of religious renewal in a multi-ethnic and multi-denominational state.

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282

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Routledge

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1317132645

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Poland From Partitions to EU Accession

A Modern Economic History, 1772–2004

By: Piotr Koryś

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Poland From Partitions to EU Accession

A Modern Economic History, 1772–2004

By: Piotr Koryś

This book surveys Poland’s move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of ‘second serfdom’; late industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the ‘Solidarność’ movement to accession into the European Union. Could Poland really be considered an ‘underdeveloped’ nation throughout the last 200 years? What factors contributed to its ‘backwardness’? Has Poland yet managed to catch up with the West? This book, the first overview of the modern economic history of Poland to be published in English, addresses these and many other questions crucial for developing our understanding of the economic history of modern Central-Eastern Europe. The economic development of Poland is analyzed through data and statistics, as well as through analysis of the ideas that paved the way for the politics of economic and social modernization.

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Springer

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3319971263

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Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996

By: Piotr Wróbel

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Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996

By: Piotr Wróbel

Located between the former Soviet Union and eastern Germany, Poland has the potential to become a political and economic bridge between the East and West. It is crucial to European security and stabilization; yet the list of reference books on recent Polish history is very short. This book fills that gap, providing information on Polish political, economic, and cultural history since 1945.

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Routledge

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1135926948

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Polonice et latine

By: Piotr Wilczek

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Polonice et latine

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Uniwersytet Slaski

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Calvinus Pastor Ecclesiae

Papers of the Eleventh International Congress on Calvin Research

By: Herman J. Selderhuis,Arnold Huijgen

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Calvinus Pastor Ecclesiae

Papers of the Eleventh International Congress on Calvin Research

By: Herman J. Selderhuis,Arnold Huijgen

This volume contains the collection of papers presented at the 11th International Congress on Calvin Research that took place in Zurich in 2014. While many colleagues of Calvin addressed him in their letters as 'Pastor Ecclesiae' (Pastor of the Church), this is also the position he held when he passed away, 450 years before the congress in Zurich took place. The first part of the book consists of the plenary papers. In the second part, the seminars held at the Congress are published, and the third part consists of a selection of short papers.

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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364755202X

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Polonia Reformata

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Historical Dictionary of Poland 1945-1996

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