The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is often considered an "aberration" where monarchy was reduced by the nobility to impotence. This collection assesses the institution and idea of monarchy within the Commonwealth's mixed form of government, with emphasis on the perspectives from the Lithuanian and Prussian components of the Commonwealth, and on international comparisons.
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"...accessible to the general reader...a rich and readable volume of scholarship..." --International History Review
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Richard Butterwick is Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen's University, Belfast.
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The title of this book, 'the Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy', suggests a typical early modern composite polity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first interregnum, magnate factions, jagiellon dynasty, royal elections, distributive powers, entire nobility, mixed monarchy, partitioning powers, crown estates, noble nation, grand duchy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stanislaw August, Royal Prussia, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Sigismund Augustus, Augustus Ill, Great Northern War, Middle Ages, Charles Ferdinand, Elector of Saxony, Great Poland, Kingdom of Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Permanent Council, Sigismund Ill, Commonwealth of the Two Nations, Karin Friedrich, Ducal Prussia, Duchy of Prussia, Frederick Augustus, Ignacy Potocki, Marble Room, Maria Theresa, Prus Królewskich, Teutonic Knights New!
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The title of this book, 'the Polish-Lithuanian Monarchy', suggests a typical early modern composite polity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first interregnum, magnate factions, jagiellon dynasty, royal elections, distributive powers, entire nobility, mixed monarchy, partitioning powers, crown estates, noble nation, grand duchy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stanislaw August, Royal Prussia, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Sigismund Augustus, Augustus Ill, Great Northern War, Middle Ages, Charles Ferdinand, Elector of Saxony, Great Poland, Kingdom of Poland, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Permanent Council, Sigismund Ill, Commonwealth of the Two Nations, Karin Friedrich, Ducal Prussia, Duchy of Prussia, Frederick Augustus, Ignacy Potocki, Marble Room, Maria Theresa, Prus Królewskich, Teutonic Knights New!
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- The Other Prussia: Royal Prussia, Poland and Liberty, 1569-1772 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) by Karin Friedrich in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The First Partition of Poland by Herbert H. Kaplan in Back Matter
- States and Rulers in Later Mediaeval Europe by Bernard Guenee on page 52
- Rethinking Ukrainian History by Ivan L. Rudnytsky in Front Matter
- Last King of Poland Pb by Adam Zamoyski in Back Matter
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