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Law and Christianity in Poland
This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience. It examines the lives of twenty-one central figures in Polish law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their country and the region. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise, from private law and codification, through national public law and constitutional law, to international developments that left their mark on Poland and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical, intellectual, and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians looking at the jurists’ particular merits, contributions to law in general, religious perspective, and period under consideration. The collection will appeal to scholars, lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between law and religion. Political, social, legal, and religious historians, among other readers, will find, for the first time in English, authoritative treatments of essential Polish legal thinkers and authors.
Men of Silk
Hasidism, a kabbalah-inspired movement founded by Israel Ba'al Shem Tov (c1700-1760), transformed Jewish communities across Eastern and East Central Europe. In Men of Silk, Glenn Dynner draws upon newly discovered Polish archival material and neglected Hebrew testimonies to illuminate Hasidism's dramatic ascendancy in the region of Central Poland during the early nineteenth century. Dynner presents Hasidism as a socioreligious phenomenon that was shaped in crucial ways by its Polish context. His social historical analysis dispels prevailing romantic notions about Hasidism. Despite their folksy image, the movement's charismatic leaders are revealed as astute populists who proved remarkably adept at securing elite patronage, neutralizing powerful opponents, and methodically co-opting Jewish institutions. The book also reveals the full spectrum of Hasidic devotees, from humble shtetl dwellers to influential Warsaw entrepreneurs.
Poland's Last King and English Culture
In Poland's Last King, Richard Butterwick reassesses the achievement of Poland's most controversial king. He shows how Stanislaw August's radical plans for constitutional reform and the renewal of Polish culture were profoundly influenced by his admiration of England, and examines the successes and limitations of the Polish Enlightenment.
The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792
The Polish Revolution cast off the Russian hegemony that had kept the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth impotent for most of the eighteenth century. Before being overthrown by the armies of Catherine the Great, the Four Years' Parliament of 1788-92 passed wide-ranging reforms, culminating in Europe's first written constitution on 3 May 1791. In some respects its policies towards the Catholic Church of both rites (Latin and Ruthenian) were more radical than those of Joseph II, and comparable to some of those adopted in the early stages of the French Revolution. Policies included taxation of the Catholic clergy at more than double the rate of the lay nobility, the confiscation of episcopal estate...
Comparative Criticism: Volume 24, Fantastic Currencies in Comparative Literature: Gothic to Postmodern
This new volume looks at Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media.
Historia państwa i prawa polskiego (966-1795)
Opracowanie ukazuje ewolucję ustrojową państwa polskiego oraz następujące kolejno przekształcenia jego instytucji politycznych i prawnych. hr Polska jako państwo powstała w X wieku. Pod koniec wieku XVIII – w wyniku rozbiorów dokonanych przez Austrię, Prusy i Rosję – utraciła niepodległość, aby w 1918 roku odrodzić się jako wolna Rzeczpospolita. W tym czasie zmieniały się jej terytorium, struktury społeczne, formy rządu, instytucje władzy i prawo. Zmiany te były wymuszane okolicznościami obiektywnymi, a zarazem wpływ na nie mieli konkretni ludzie odgrywający rolę liderów, w szczególności panujący książęta i królowie oraz osoby przynależące do elity sp...
