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Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe launches an eye-opening journey into emerging cultures and civilizations of the Younger Europe Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories from the fall of Constantinople (1453) to the dawn of the Industrial Age.
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe gathers studies that shed new light on the rich tapestry of early modern Younger Europe Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories. It unearths the multi-dimensional aspects of the period, revealing the formation and transformation of nations that shared common threads, the establishment of political systems, and the enduring legacies of religious movements. Immersive, enlightening, and thought-provoking, the book promises to be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the complexities of early modern Europe. This collection does not just retell history; it provokes readers to rethink it.
Contributors include: Giovanna Brogi, Piotr Chmiel,Karin Friedrich, Anna Grzekowiak-Krwawicz, Mirosawa Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Robert Aleksander Maryks, Tadhg Ó hAnnrachįin, Maciej Ptaszyski, Paul Shore, and Frank E. Sysyn.
Contents
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Introduction
Mirosawa Hanusiewicz-Lavallee and Robert A. Maryks
The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth and the Birth of Modern Ukraine: a
Reappraisal of the Khmelnytsky Revolution
Frank E. Sysyn
Abstract
Keywords
1National Traditions
2Periodization
3The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and Early Modern Revolts
4The Religious Factor
5New Research Agendas
6Conclusion
The Younger Europeor the Older? Visions of Politics in the Early Modern
PolishLithuanian Commonwealth
Anna Grzekowiak-Krwawicz
Abstract
Keywords
1On the Main Route: the Republican Tradition
2The Side Path: Disregard of New Concepts
3New Propositions: New Roads
The Common Good and Urban Crisis Management in Early Modern East-Central
Europe: the Examples of Danzig and Slutsk
Karin Friedrich
Abstract
Keywords
1Self-Interest versus Common Good in the Younger Europe
2The Common Good, Natural Law, and Hugo Grotius
3Danzigs Conflict with Stefan Bįthory
4The Well-Ordered Government of the City of Slutsk
5Conclusion
Good Editions of Unpublished Texts: the Case of Stefan Iavorskii
Giovanna Brogi
Abstract
Keywords
1Historical and Cultural Context
2Stefan Iavorskiis Heretige
3Documentary and Cultural Significance
4Stefan Iavorskii and Lazar Baranovych
5Conclusion
Words Spoken and Unspoken: Preachers and the Baltic Reformation in the
Younger Europe
Maciej Ptaszyski
Abstract
Keywords
1Introduction
2Early Reformation in the North
3Stralsund on the Eve of Iconoclasm
4Conclusion
The Younger Europe from a Papal Perspective, 15801640
Tadhg Ó hAnnrachįin
Abstract
Keywords
1Introduction: Catholic Geography of Europe
2Perceptions of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth
3Conclusion
The Battle of Mohįcs, Re-remembered History, and Hungarys Christian
Identity
Paul Shore
Abstract
Keywords
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Younger, but How? Heterochrony of Premodern European Divisions in the
Discourse on Central/East-Central Europe
Piotr Chmiel
Abstract
Keywords
1Introduction
2EastWest Divide
3From Spatial to Temporal Divisions
4Views on Europe: Time and Space
5Reflections on Early Modern Times
6Toward a Conclusion: Heterochrony, History, and the EastWest Divide
Bibliography
Index
Mirosawa Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Ph.D. (1992, Catholic University of Lublin) Poland, is a professor of early modern Polish literature at the same university. She has published extensively on baroque poetry, religious literary culture, and the comparative context of Polish literature, including the monographs wiat podzielony (1994), wite i zmysowe w poezji religijnej polskiego baroku (1998), Pi stopni mioci (2004), and W stron Albionu(2017).
Robert A. Maryks, Ph.D. (Fordham University, New York City) has published widely on the history of the Jesuits, including Saint Cicero and the Jesuits (Ashgate, 2008) and The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews (Brill, 2009). He is the editor of the Journal of Jesuits Studies, Brills series Jesuit Studies, Jesuit Historiography Online, and Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies.
