Britain and Poland-Lithuania

Titel: Britain and Poland-Lithuania : contact and comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795 / ed. by Richard Unger ...
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Veröffentlicht: Leiden ˜[u.a.]œ : Brill, 2008
Umfang: XLIII, 486 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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mehrbändiges Werk:
The Northern world ; 37
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ISBN: 9789004166233
Lokale Klassifikation: 32 7 R ; 32 7 B ; 32 7 E ; 32 7 Rd ; 32 11 A ; 32 13 D ; 32 15 L
  • List of Figures
  • p. ix
  • List of Maps
  • p. xi
  • A Note on Proper Names
  • p. xiii
  • Preface
  • p. xv
  • List of Abbreviations
  • p. xxiii
  • List of Contributors
  • p. xxvii
  • Foreword
  • Taking Stock-Looking Forward
  • p. xxix
  • Part I
  • The Middle Ages
  • Contacts
  • Early Commercial Contacts between England, Prussia and Poland
  • p. 3
  • England's Contacts with Poland-Lithuania in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
  • p. 19
  • Polish Ships in English Waters in the Later Middle Ages
  • p. 39
  • Comparisons: Religion, Society, and Culture
  • Preaching on Martyr-Bishops in the Later Middle Ages: Saint Stanislaus of Krakow and Saint Thomas Becket
  • p. 67
  • The Papacy and the Nations of Scotland and Poland, c. 1250-1334
  • p. 87
  • Holy Frontiersmen? Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-century Monastic Colonisation and Socio-Economic Change in Poland and Scotland
  • p. 103
  • Border Communities between Violence and Opportunities: Scotland and Pomerania Compared
  • p. 123
  • Polish and English Peasants in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: a Comparative View
  • p. 137
  • England and Poland: Medieval Metropolises Compared
  • p. 147
  • Part II
  • The Early Modern Period
  • Polity, Diplomacy and War
  • The Commonwealth and Monarchia Mixta in Polish and English Political Thought in the Later Sixteenth Century
  • p. 167
  • Poland and Britain against the Ottoman Turks: Jerzy Ossolinski's Embassy to King James I in 1621
  • p. 183
  • Liberty, Virtue and the Chosen People: British and Polish Republicanism in the Early Eighteenth Century
  • p. 197
  • Religion and Toleration
  • Corollaries of Commerce between England and Gdansk (Danzig) in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Romance, Heresy, Employment, and Epidemic
  • p. 217
  • Witch-hunting in Poland and England: Similarities and Differences
  • p. 233
  • Polish Religious Persecution as a Topic in British Writing in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century
  • p. 243
  • Diasporas
  • Krakow Citizenship and the Local Scots, 1509-1655
  • p. 263
  • The Nation Epidemical: Scoto-Britannus to Scoto-Polonus
  • p. 287
  • Britain and Gdansk (Danzig) in the Eighteenth Century as a Case Study for Cultural Transfer-the interdependence of the 'bourgeois public' and the social activities of British residents in Gdansk in a period of enlightened 'Anglophilia'
  • p. 305
  • Impressions and Stereotypes
  • Scotsmen and the Polish Nobility from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
  • p. 329
  • The View from the Margins: Ireland and Poland-Lithuania, 1698-1798
  • p. 355
  • The Picture of England and Englishmen in Polish Memoirs during the Reign of Stanislaus Augustus (1764-1795)
  • p. 375
  • Ideas and Art
  • Polish-English (British) Philosophical Contacts and Comparisons from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century
  • p. 391
  • Echoes of the East: Glimpses of the 'Orient' in British and Polish-Lithuanian Portraiture of the Eighteenth Century
  • p. 401
  • Bibliography
  • p. 421
  • Index
  • p. 469