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1 online resource (xvii, 369 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of tables""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Pronunciation guide""; ""A note on terminology and measures""; ""Maps""; ""Genealogical table""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth""; ""2 The Polish Revolution, the Catholic Church, and the historians""; ""3 Decision-making in a republican polity""; ""PART I: PLUNDER""; ""1. The Commonwealth and the Catholic Church in 1788""; ""1 The bishop and bishopric of Cracow""; ""2 The sejmiks of August 1788""; ""3 The instructions of 1788""; ""4 A comparison with the cahiers de doléances"" |
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""5 â€?An ill humour against the clergyâ€?""""2. The republican revolution""; ""1 The inauguration and confederation of the sejm""; ""2 The army and the Military Department: 13 Octoberâ€?3 November 1788""; ""3 The â€?publicâ€? in revolutionary Warsaw""; ""4 Casting off the Russian guarantee: 5 November 1788â€?19 January 1789""; ""5 The implications for the Catholic Church""; ""3. The first wave of ecclesiastical polemics (to the summer of 1789)""; ""1 Staszic, Nax, Kołłątaj""; ""2 Ecclesiastical temporalities and public utility""; ""3 The patriotic paradigm""; ""4. Tax or offering?"" |
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""1 The episcopal response to the threat""""2 �Who is poorer than the Fatherland?� 12�16 March 1789""; ""3 Disputes over tax reductions and exemptions: 17�20 March 1789""; ""4 Baiting the primate: 19, 23, and 24 March 1789""; ""5 Catharsis and controversy: the �Perpetual Offering� and the peasants""; ""6 Implementation""; ""5. The secularization of the bishopric of Cracow""; ""1 Patrimonium Reipublicae?""; ""2 The king�s predicament: between Lucchesini and Stackelberg""; ""3 Trading the bishopric of Cracow""; ""4 The dénouement: 17 July 1789"" |
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""5 Equalizing the bishoprics: 20â€?24 July 1789""""6 A political turning point""; ""PART II: COMPROMISE""; ""6. Pamphleteers, journalists, and the Church: summer 1789â€?spring 1791""; ""1 Pawlikowski, Kołłątaj, Staszic""; ""2 The discourse of scandal: anti-clerical pamphlets""; ""3 Defences of the clergy: Canons Skarszewski and Jezierski""; ""4 In the columns of the press: France and the Habsburg Monarchy in turmoil""; ""5 Providentialism and covenantalism in pastoral letters and sermons""; ""7. On the brink of schism: August 1789â€?May 1790"" |
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""1 'The temporality of the Church of Cracow�""""2 The �clerical deputation�, the episcopate, and the nuncio: preparations""; ""3 Recruitment, local government reform, and the Educational Commission""; ""4 Religious dimensions of the urban and constitutional questions""; ""5 The negotiation of a compromise: October 1789�May 1790""; ""6 Deus ex machina""; ""8. A limited ecclesiastical reform""; ""1 �When war is a hair�s breadth away from us . . .�""; ""2 Episcopal salaries or estates? 25�26 May 1790"" |
| Summary |
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 Régime |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-343) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Church and state -- Poland -- History -- 18th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Church and state
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| SUBJECT |
Poland -- History -- Partition period, 1763-1796.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104058
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Poland -- Church history -- 18th century
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Poland
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191617508 |
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0191617504 |
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9780191730986 |
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019173098X |
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