God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
110 JOGALIA he had no chance to wrest control of Polish affairs from his father's favourite Bishop. The first years of his reign ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 111 Dunajow near Lwow attracted one of the leading humanist circles of Europe, Dlugosz belonged to a galaxy ...
Map 9. The Jagiellonian Realm (c. 1500) ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 113 and accepted the demands of the Lower House. The Statute of Nihil Novi estab- lished the principle that ...
114 JOGALIA motto was 'U nas mnogo ludei' (We have a lot of people). Glinski took Smolensk by treachery, and held on to it. The ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 115 after more than a century as vassals of the Polish King, the Hospodars of Moldavia transferred their al ...
(^116) JOGALIA Yet Sigismund gained little understanding from the Sejm. He was a born parlia- mentarian, and bore much offence p ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 117 with Archbishop Wilhelm and representatives of all the estates of Livonia assembled in Wilno to pay hom ...
118 JOGALIA the last two Jagiellons one can talk of Poland's Zloty Wiek, her 'Golden Age', with no hint of hyperbole. The flower ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 119 Modrzewski, Ilowski, Goslicki, Rej, Orzechowski, Zaborowski, Wapowski, Gornicki, Copernicus, Kochanowsk ...
120 JOGALIA each complementing the others. Its intellecual life centred on the famous Academy, or Hippeum, which briefly constit ...
THE LITHUANIAN UNION 121 eastern provinces; the inadequacy of existing military, financial, and adminis- trative practices - all ...
122 JOGAL1A natories. Then, he led the entire assembly to the Church of St. Stanislaw, kneel- ing before the altar and singing t ...
Part Two THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN REPUBLIC, 1569-1795 ...
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6 ANTEMURALE: The Bulwark of Christendom At any point between AD 1000 and 1939, quotations can be found to illustrate the convic ...
126 ANTEMURALE as the 'Haven of Toleration'. In this way, Roman apologists have created the impression that Poland was able to h ...
Diagram G. The Religious Communities of Poland-Lithuania a) in 1660 b) in 1772 ...
128 ANTEMURALE Knights, paid court to the crusading tradition. Some historians, such as Lelewel, have chosen to liken Poland's m ...
THE BULWARK OF CHRISTENDOM 129 ordered the King's severed head to be impaled on a stake, to terrify the infidels. .. Later, pres ...
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