Britain and Poland-Lithuania: Contact and Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795 Contributor(s): Unger (Editor), Basista (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004166238 ISBN-13: 9789004166233 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $205.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2008 Annotation: Twenty-four papers deal with various aspects of the economies, politics, religion, art, and culture of Britain and Poland-Lithuania from the Middle Ages down to the Third Partition, illustrating unexpected similarities and long-standing ties between the two regions. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland - History | Eastern Europe - General - History | Europe - Baltic States |
Dewey: 941 |
LCCN: 2008006761 |
Series: Northern World |
Physical Information: 1.29" H x 6.6" W x 9.61" (2.19 lbs) 486 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Baltic - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
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Publisher Description: In twenty-four papers scholars from Europe and North America examine various aspects of the economies, politics and culture of Britain and Poland-Lithuania from the Middle Ages down to the Third Partition. The similarities between the two seemingly different regions are as surprising as the long-standing connections between the British Isles and East Central Europe. Commercial ties were complemented by migration and by cultural exchange with writers, philosophers and artists in both regions taking an interest in the other. In sections devoted to religion and toleration, trade, diasporas, political theory, and stereotypes among others the authors present a new and unexpected history of the relationship between two states which politically up to 1795 went in opposite directions. Contributors are: Richard Butterwick, Nils Hybel, Wendy Childs, Maryanne Kowaleski, Stanka Kuzmova, Sarah Layfield, Richard D Oram, Emilia Jamroziak, Piotr Guzowski, Derek Keene, Tomasz Gromelski, Pawel Rutkowski, Benedict Wagner-Rundell, John Fudge, Brian Levack, Beata Cieszynska, Waldemar Kowalski, Arthur H. Williamson, M.St. Almut Hillebrand, Peter Paul Bajer, R is n Healy, Dariusz Rolnik, Jan Wolenski, Aleksandra Koutny-Jones. |