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Rzeczpospolita Wazów. 2, Wojsko Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego, dyplomacja, varia
Subtitle:Wojsko Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego, dyplomacja, varia
Creator: Contributor:Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Publisher:Wydawnictwo Neriton ; Instytut Historii PAN
Place of publishing: Date issued/created: Description:321 s. ; 24 cm ; Błędny ISBN 83-88729-02-4. ; Indeks ; Streszcz. w jęz. ang.
Subject and Keywords:Polska -- 1587-1632 (Zygmunt III Waza) [KABA] ; Polska -- 1632-1648 (Władysław IV Waza) [KABA] ; Litwa -- 1569-1795 [KABA] ; Polska -- siły zbrojne -- 17 w. [KABA] ; Polska -- stosunki zagraniczne -- 1572-1696 [KABA]
Abstract:
The present book depicts two of the indicated issues: functioning of the army, albeit only of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and diplomacy. The incorporation into the Polish Crown of: Podolia, Volhynia and the Duchy of Kiev caused the change of a strategic situation of the both states. There declined the border between Lithuania and Turkey and its vassal states, instead was established a border between the Polish Crown and Muscovy. This meant that the Crown took over the burden of defence against Tartars raids, Turkish threat and partly Muscovite and in large extent – against the Kossacks revolts. The shift in belonging of the territory weakened the potential of Lithuania and strengthen the Polish Crown. The Union itself, by maintaining the partial autonomy of the states caused that the vital problems of the foreign policy were either the problems of Lithuania or the Crown. In addition, the states had to defend their borders on their own. The army is divided by the author into the Crown, Lithuanian and, to some extent, supranational (the king’s guard, the auxiliary troops of the vassals, the dukes of Kurland and Prussia). In the Lithuanian army there are distinguished the state armed forces (maintained by the state treasury and formed by the people obliged to the military service, that is the noble levy-en-masse, the Tartars and “selected infantry”), organised by the decision of the dietine (local levy-en-masse and the district squadrons), and finally the private troops. Author presented the methods of financing the army, that is from the taxes agreed to by the Sejm and dietines. There is also a description of the command, the ways of forming of the military forces and the judicial and legal system in the scope concerning the soldiers. With reference to the diplomacy, the author analyses the rules of the law which were playing a decisive role in sending and receiving legates. It is compared with the practice and ended with a conclusion that the decisive voice was that of the king, although on one condition – his decisions had to be concurrent, or at least not opposed to the feelings of the noble nation. Presents also the division of legates, the hierarchy and types of legates, describes the extent of freedom of their action which, was in fact full, although occasionally it was a result of impossibility to contact with distant king. Presents three methods of ratifying the treaties: confirmation by the king, confirmation by the king and then by the Sejm, and by the commissaries who concluded the treaty. The book also contains four concise sketches. The first one (The Nobility and the Hapsburgs) is a polemics with a wide-spread in Polish historiography opinion on unfavourable attitude of the Polish nobility towards the Hapsburgs. The author indicates the two-time election of the Hapsburgs to the Polish throne, first in 1575 of Emperor Maximilian II, then, in 1587, of Archduke Maximilian. He also reminds about the good will showed towards the queens of the Hapsburg House, and frequent studies in Austria and service in the Hapsburg army. The second sketch (The Grand Duchy of Lithuania versus Moscow in the period of Smuta) analyses the attitude of the Lithuanian nobility towards Moscow in the early seventeen century. This is a period of transition: from the fear of Moscow to the belief in chance of victory, then, after the seizure of Smolensk – a retreat to the postulate of maintaining the peace. The third essay (The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on 17 August, 1629) briefly describes an international position of the Commonwealth by the last years of Sigismundus III. The last sketch (Dissident as a Protector of Orders) is dedicated to the activities of Krzysztof Radziwiłł (1585–1640), palatine of Vilnius, hetman and the leader of Lithuanian Protestants, who made afforts to make bishop of Vilnius to permit the Dominicans to establish a monasteries, and also shows his alms-giving to the Warsaw Jesuit house.
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Digitizing institution:Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Original in:Library of the Institute of History PAS
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