Abstract
The chapter analysis through primary sources from political treatises, parliamentary speeches and protocols, correspondence and diaries, the theoretical definition and practical approach to citizenship in the noble-dominated Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A special emphasis is being put here on non-noble citizens claiming membership in the civic society of the Commonwealth (burghers, Cossacks, Jews), and the differences in these approaches and civic political behaviour in the various territorial parts of the Commonwealth, often deeply influenced by different religions (Orthodox Ruthenia, Protestants and Catholic in Lithuania and Royal Prussia, Catholic domination in the core territories of the Crown of Poland, etc.). The book itself endeavours to put the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth into a wider European perspective.
The book was double-peer-reviewed by Professors Bogdan Szlachta and Andrzej Zakrzewski.
The book was double-peer-reviewed by Professors Bogdan Szlachta and Andrzej Zakrzewski.
Translated title of the contribution | Citizens and Citizenship in a multi-national Commonwealth |
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Original language | Other |
Title of host publication | Wartości polityczne Rzeczypospoltej Obojga narodów |
Subtitle of host publication | Struktury aksjologiczne i granice cywilizacyjne |
Editors | Alina Nowicka-Jeżowa, Jerzy Axer, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz |
Place of Publication | Warsaw |
Publisher | Wydawnicto Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego |
Pages | 119-150 |
Number of pages | 31 |
Volume | one |
Edition | first |
ISBN (Electronic) | 8788323527893 |
ISBN (Print) | 9788323527817, 9788323521471 |
Publication status | Published - May 2017 |
Publication series
Name | Kultura Pierwszej Rzeczypospolitej w dialogu z Europą. Hermeneutyka wartości |
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Publisher | University of Warsaw |
Volume | 3 |
Keywords
- The history of political ideas
- Poland-Lithuania
- Citizenship
- Early Modern
- Nobility
- Political nation
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Karin Friedrich
- School of Divinity, History & Philosophy, History - Professor in Early Modern History
- Centre for Early Modern Studies
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