Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792: A Political History

ISBN-13: 9780199250332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 400 str.

Dr Richard Butterwick

Opis

Richard Butterwick draws on diplomatic and political correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, sermons, pastoral letters, proclamations, records of local assemblies, and other sources to explore a volatile relationship between altar, throne, and nobility in Poland at the end of Europe's Ancien Regime.

Recenzje

For a variety of reasons, The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 17881792 — the condensed English-language version of a 988-page Polish-language tome — is an exceptionally important book with lessons for a wide academic audience.

O autorze

Richard Butterwick is the author of Poland's Last King and English Culture: Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732-1798 (OUP, 1998), and numerous articles on the political, religious, cultural, and intellectual history of the Polish-Lithuanian lands in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.