The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is often considered an 'aberration' where monarchy was reduced by the nobility to impotence, and which was consequently partitioned. However, historians' reappraisal of monarchy in early modern Europe calls for a reconsideration of the extent of Polish-Lithuanian 'divergence'. The essays of this collection assess the institution and idea of monarchy in one of Europe's largest and most neglected states. It will appeal to all those interested in early modern history.

ALMUT BUES Deputy Director, German Historical Institute, Warsaw ROBERT J.W. EVANS Regius Professor, Modern History, University of Oxford and Fellow of Oriel College JURATAe KIAUPIENAe Senior Research Officer, Institute of Lithuanian History in Vilnius and Senior Lecturer (Dozent), Lithuanian and European History, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas JERZY LUKOWSKI Senior Lecturer, Modern History, University of Birmingham MARIUSZ MARKIEWICZ Associate Professor, Modern European History, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

About the Author
ALMUT BUES Deputy Director, German Historical Institute, Warsaw, ROBERT J.W. EVANS Regius Professor, Modern History, University of Oxford and Fellow of Oriel College, JURATE KIAUPIENE Senior Research Officer, Institute of Lithuanian History in Vilnius and Senior Lecturer (Dozent), Lithuanian and European History, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, JERZY LUKOWSKI Senior Lecturer, Modern History, University of Birmingham, MARIUSZ MARKIEWICZ Associate Professor, Modern European History, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

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'...accessible to the general reader...a rich and readable volume of scholarship...' - Robert E. Jones, International History Review

Book Information
ISBN 9780333773826
Author R. Butterwick
Format Hardback
Page Count 249
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan