God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
90 ANJOU particular the autonomy of the provinces, Louis limited all forms of noble service and obligation to just three heads. ...
THE HUNGARIAN CONNECTION 91 the invitation was sent and accepted. Throughout 1384, the disappointed can- didates battled each ot ...
92 ANJOU in communist Eastern Europe, two fraternal parties show rare signs of genuine fraternity. To this day, almost anyone in ...
5 JOGALIA: The Lithuanian Union (1386-1572) The Lithuanians prided themselves on being the last pagan people in Europe. In the t ...
94 JOGALIA were servants of 'the German God'. Right until his elevation to the Polish throne, his raiding parties and rustlers r ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 95 man to whom she had been betrothed since infancy and to wed a pagan bache- lor more than three times her ...
96 JOGALIA future of his two realms was to be determined by common assent. The second stage was affected in an agreement signed ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 97 Habsburgs, and of the Ottomans at the end of the fifteenth century, Central Europe lived in constant com ...
(^98) JOGALIA in huge six-horse wagons, which could keep on the move over vast distances or which could be chained together and ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 99 What actually happened is hard to say. Polish history books attribute the victory to the Polish royal gu ...
(^100) JOGALIA name. Pagan practices were Christianized. Polish worship of the Madonna became the Lithuanian festival of St. Mar ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 101 Legatus Natus 'Hereditary Legate' and promptly used it to reject the Vatican's pro-Habsburg plans for a ...
102 JOGALIA those numerous noble families, whose names first appear in the documents and land grants of the late fourteenth and ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 103 the 1490s, Jan Turzon of Cracow started a company for exploiting the silver mines of the Tatras; in 152 ...
104 JOGALIA was equivalent to one red zloty, or to eight 'silver zloties', and was divided into 5 orti. On this scale, one dolla ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 105 16,598 Jews pay the poll-tax, whilst two hundred thousand of them apparently live underground?' Social ...
(^106) JOGALIA wording of the coronation service, numerous attempts to follow this precedent were blocked by the nobility. Sigis ...
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