„Rychlejší než větry, hbitější než všichni zajíci“. Útěk Jindřicha z Valois z Polska v pamfletu z roku 1574

• Authors: Kateřina Pražáková , Tomáš Sterneck

Title variants

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“Faster than the Winds, More Fleet-Footed than all the Hares”. The Escape of Henry III of Valois from Poland in the 1574 Pamphlet

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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This study discusses a pamphlet written in Latin in the year 1574 which had until now remained unpublished and has been preserved in the State Regional Archives in Třeboň in the collection Historica Třeboň. The unknown author of the rhyming text entitled De obitu Caroli IX, Galliarum regis, et de Henrico, Polonorum rege was reacting to the situation in the Polish-Lithuanian state after the flight of Henry III of Valois during the night of the 18th to the 19th of June, 1574. This episode was evaluated in context of the history of the French Valois dynasty, against whose members the author adopted a sharply critical stance (among other things, he emphasizes their share in the bloody St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre in August 1572). However, he presents the Polish aristocrats in a positive light: in the pamphleteer’s conception they were denying the undeserving King Henry the opportunity to advance a bad form of government. This study offers a detailed interpretation of the pamphlet within the wider context of Polish-Lithuanian union relations to the Habsburg Monarchy and the Kingdom of France in the period of the contest for the Polish crown (1572–1573). An integral part of this contribution is also an edition that makes the source herein analyzed available to interested researchers. In particular, historians who are concerned with topics relating to early modern political thinking, communication and public relations can draw upon it.

Keywords

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Polish-Lithuanian union; royal election 1572–1573; early modern public relations

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 473-498

Contributors

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Kateřina Pražáková

• Historický ústav, Filozofická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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Tomáš Sterneck

• Historický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., Centrum raně novověkých studií, společné pracoviště s HÚ Jihočeské univerzity, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic