| Description |
1 online resource (xliii, 486 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
The Northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 37 |
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Northern world ; v. 37.
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| Contents |
List of Figures; List of Maps; A Note on Proper Names; Preface (Richard W. Unger, University of British Columbia); List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Foreword Taking Stock -- Looking Forward (Richard Butterwick, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London); PART I THE MIDDLE AGES; Contacts; Comparisons: Religion, Society, and Culture; PART II (THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD); Polity, Diplomacy and War; Religion and Toleration; Diasporas; Impressions and Stereotypes; Ideas and Art; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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, polit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-468) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Middle Ages.
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HISTORY.
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Diplomatic relations
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Middle Ages
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Poland
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Poland -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056740
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Great Britain -- History -- 1485- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056778
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Poland -- History -- To 1795.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104017
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Scotland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118827
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Great Britain
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Poland
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Scotland
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Großbritannien
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Litauen
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Polen
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Storbritannien -- historia.
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Storbritannien -- internationella relationer -- historia -- Polen.
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Polen -- historia.
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Polen -- internationella relationer -- historia -- Storbritannien.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Unger, Richard W.
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Basista, Jakub.
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| ISBN |
9789047442684 |
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9047442687 |
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