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Towards “The Nature and Secrets of Music”: W. C. Printz and the natural history tradition

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Wessel J. A.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology

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2021

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issue 21

93-105

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The present article provides arecontextualization of Wolfgang Caspar Printz’s (1641–1717) landmark music history published in 1690 (Historische Beschreibung der edelen Sing- und Kling-Kunst). later commentators have read it as a primitive, naïve and even failed attempt at writing the history of music. Still, they seem to agree that the text, in virtue of its subject matter, forms part of a canon of music historiography. The present article will seek the interpretative key in the wider intellectual context, outside of the narrow confines of texts about the musical past. It will advance the thesis that Printz built his music historiography from elements of the natural history tradition. Two arguments support this thesis. First, it will be argued that the organization of the material in chapters XIv, Xv and XvI betrays the influence of a classical version of taxonomy closely associated with the natural history tradition. Secondly, that Printz’s inquiry into the purpose of music reveals his reliance on a concept of nature similarly rooted in natural history.

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„Neue“ Lieder im Gesangbuch Jesličky (1658) von Fridrich Bridelius und ihre Textvorlagen. Bemerkungen zu den Inspirationsquellen der tschechischen barocken Kirchenlieder

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Škarpová M.

Hudební věda (Musicology)

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2012

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vol. 49

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issue 4

377-398

EN

This study deals with that portion of the repertoire of the Czech Advent and Christmas songbook Jesličky (Prague, 1658) by Fridrich Bridelius, which newly appeared in Czech hymnography thanks to this song book, and it summarizes the various results of the search for textual sources from other languages for these “new” songs in Jesličky. It points out their ties to contemporary German written hymnography (of both German and Bohemian provenience) and to Latin hymnography, i.e. to contemporary Latin songs. The text is thus not only a contribution towards discovering the ways that Czech hymnographers of the 17th century became familiar with the new, i.e. baroque, poetic language, but also, above all, an attempt to stimulate further hymnological research on baroque hymnographic works in the early modern history of Central Europe and the interconnections and relationships between them.

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Wacław Potocki’s Understanding of Patriotism

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Maciejewska I.

Prace Literaturoznawcze

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2019

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issue 7

39-52

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This article describes the concept of patriotism, as shown in the writings of Wacław Potocki– a poet of the Polish Baroque. The analysis shows that the author, who came from the middleincomegentry, understood love for his country in two ways: firstly, as the commitment to defend itsborders during the numerous wars of the 17th century; secondly, as the obligation to perform one’scivic duties and adopt a pro-state and pro-community attitude. Raising these issues on several occasions,Potocki did not propose any major political changes with the aim of weakening the positionof the gentry or the aristocracy. Nevertheless, in his poetic reflections he was very critical of the conductof some representatives of those privileged social classes.

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Spór filologiczny wokół kazania Piotra Skargi wygłoszonego w Wilnie 9 września 1601 roku

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Szymczak D., Łódzki U.

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica

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2013

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vol. 21

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issue 3

EN

The subject matter of this article is the episode of Skarga’s creations, concerning the argument with a protestant writer and publisher, Daniel Cramer. The conflict referred to the speech made by the Jesuit, just before the war expedition of King Sigismund III Vasa which started in Inflants. The essence of the speech was subsequently translated into German by an anonymous translator, a witness of this event. Furthermore, it was published as a maligning source against the king’s preacher. As a response, Skarga had created his own written version of the speech, in such a form in which it was originally meant to be spoken. Afterwards he compared it to the German-language translation. By juxtaposing those two texts, he wanted to show in what way the opponents, in his opinion, manipulated the written forms of the facts. In addition, his objective was to restore the basic philological processes, which was conducted during the modification of his speech.

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Die Weihnachtslieder im Gesangbuch Jesličky (1658) zwischen deutscher Hymnographie und übernationalem Repertoire

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Slavický T.

Hudební věda (Musicology)

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2012

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vol. 49

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issue 4

399-415

EN

The songbook Jesličky (1658) has tended to be cited primarily as an example of direct contacts between Czech and German hymnography of the 17th century. Opening the door to consideration of a broader context was the presence of certain tunes in Latin-Slovak and Latin-Croatian printed material as well. An entire set of identical tunes has subsequently been confirmed in Latin, German, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, and Croatian hymnography. The situation outlined above has thus shifted the original issue – the “new” songs printed in Jesličky are not just a new layer of the Czech Christmas repertoire with proven German sources, but also an attempt at creating Czech versions of a supranational repertoire. The search for source models is thus growing into research surveying the new repertoire of Christmas songs that was spreading its way around Central Europe near the middle of the 17th century.

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HISTORIA SOCALIENSIS DEIPARAE VIRGINIS SACRAE ET MIRACULOSAE IMAGINIS JANA OSTROROGA. EDYCJA KRYTYCZNA ZE WSTĘPEM, PRZEKŁAD POLSKI

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Wichowa M.

Rocznik Przemyski

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2017

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vol. 53

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issue 2(21): Literatura i Język

149-164

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History of the Socaliensis Deiparae Virginis Sacrae et Miraculosae Imaginis is an edition of a unique print from the Jagiellonian Library collection, published around 1618. The Poznań governor, a man of deep faith, described the miraculous picture of Our Lady of Sokal, which, according to family tradition, had contributed to his birth. However, this is not a hagiographic story. Ostroróg, as the author of the story, wrote from the perspective of a historian and a documentarian. He relied on the available source materials. The facts given are accurate and reliable.

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Gli anni romani di Giovanni Battista Gisleni

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Mossakowski S.

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki

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2009

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vol. 71

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issue 1-2

35-56

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Giovanni Batistta Gisleni (1600-1672), Italian architect, stage designer, and musician, left his home town of Rome in search of work in order to settle in 1629 for 36 years in Poland where he was employed at the court of three subsequent kings. The article focuses on his stays in the Eternal City: two shorter ones (in 1643 and in 1656(57?)-1664), and the third longer one in 1667. On his first trip, Gisleni was busy employing musicians for the Royal Orchestra that he himself played in. During his second stay, he busied himself organizing the Academy of Saint Luke to which he was elected in March 1656. From 1659, Gisleni lived in Via della Croce where he had his own house built; it featured the coat of arms of Poland and Lithuania on the façade. At the same time, he remained in touch with the country he had stayed in for long, serving in Rome as Poland’s informal diplomatic agent. He eagerly met with Poles coming to Rome, arranging for them to meet some outstanding personalities and taking them round the city sights. A good example of such an activity is the visit young Prince Aleksander Ostrogski-Zasławski paid to Rome in 1669, recorded by his entourage member Kazimierz Wojszanorowicz. That very year, Gisleni published the description of the election of King Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki. It seems that by the end of his life, Gisleni no longer pursued his career. His only works from that period are the design of church decoration for the Quarantore Service, possibly unaccomplished, and the design (1670) of his own tombstone erected in the Church of S. Maria del Popolo. The final part of the article is dedicated to the tombstone; the Author attempts at deciphering its ambiguous content expressed in a Baroque form and the extensive Latin inscription. The Polish version of the article was published in the proceedings from the Conference: ‘Poland and Europe in the Modern Era’ (Royal Castle in Warsaw, 16-17 December 2008), dedicated to Prof. Juliusz A. Chrościcki.

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„Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society” Henry’ego Oldenburga z lat 1665–1677 i naukowe doniesienia z Rzeczypospolitej ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem prac Jana Heweliusza

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Firlej-Buzon A.

Roczniki Biblioteczne

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2018

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vol. 62

19-34

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The purpose of this paper is to reveal the presence in the pages of the fi rst scientifi c English journal The Philosophical Transactions of the scholars associated with the Republic of Poland or conducting scientifi c research or experimental observations on the Polish territory. The subject of articles edited and published by Henry Oldenburg during the years 1665–1677 will be outlined, as well as the dynamics of research in the Republic of Poland. Analized were original scientifi c texts sent from Poland to the editor of the journal during the years 1665–1677, as well as the citations of these works or studies from the area of Republic of Poland. Studies have shown that the most active author was Jan Heweliusz — astronomer from the Free Royal City Gdańsk. Unfortunately, other important works of Polish scientists were not published in the journal. The reasons for this lack should be sought in many sorts of factors in the history of Poland in the 17th century.

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La storia del Seicento ucraino: prospettive di collaborazione fra storici polacchi e ucraini

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Chynczewska-Hennel T.

pl.it / rassegna italiana di argomenti polacchi

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2017

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issue 8

185-194

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Kaple císařských vyslanců v Drážďanech v druhé půli 17. století

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Kubeš J.

Folia historica Bohemica

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2015

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vol. 30

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issue 1

127-156

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A paper concerns the history of early modern diplomacy. The study explores operation of the imperial legates’ chapels in Saxon Dresden between the 1660s and 1690s under the rule of the Electors John George II, John George II, John George IV and Frederick Augustus until his conversion to the Catholic confession in 1697. The author summarizes basic information on location of the chapels, the chaplains and their activities and closely analyses problems of local authorities with the legates’ chapels. He illustrates alternations of tolerance and tension in Dresden that coincided with persecutions of the Saxon subjects attending Catholic masses (following 1676), with assaults against members of the legate’s entourage (1683 and 1685) and even with a ban of masses during the legate’s absence (1695). The legates and their chaplains, however, refused to yield and, despite certain limitations, continued to run the chapels.

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Samuel Besler (1574–1625) – zarys życia i twórczości1

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Wróblewska A.

Kwartalnik Młodych Muzykologów UJ

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2018

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issue 4(39)

5-19

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Samuel Besler (1574–1625) was born in Brzeg, Lower Silesia. He spent a major part of his life in Wrocław as a cantor at St Bernardine’s Church and then a headmaster of the Holy Spirit school, which belonged to St. Bernardine’s parish. The article presents a biography of the composer including the latest discoveries of the author, made in Wrocław University Library and the State Archive in Wrocław. Biographical information is followed by the short description of Besler’s artistic work in which both symptoms of changes in the music of the early 17th century and manifestation of the composer’s fascination with Gregorian chant are present.

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Encarnação e Ressurreição de Cristo: duplicação de um modelo textual

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Freitas F.

Studia Iberystyczne

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2014

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vol. 13

67-81

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There is a manuscript of the 17th century, at Biblioteca Pública de Évora, which has two religious texts related to the pedagogical activity of the Jesuits. These texts present a large number of identical fragments, despite the existence of pragmatic differences originated by the festivities for which they were composed. The comparison between them will establish the extra‑textual characteristics of each and the progressive distance among them, from the simple textual variant to the rewriting process. This article will clarify the circumstances of the composition and performance of the texts, in the context of jesuitic teaching.

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Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów w dziełach Martina Zeillera (1589-1661)

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Pagórski W.

Przegląd Zachodni

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2017

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issue 3(364)

55-73

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The article presents the biography and work of Martin Zeiller (1589-1661), a German polyhistor who authored descriptions of European countries and “lexicons”. Special attention is paid to the information he provides about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Although the author never visited Poland, his works, based on the rich body of available literature, abound in references to the past and present of the Commonwealth. While Zeiller devoted two separate volumes (1647, 1657) to the description of Polish history, geography, society and political system, the information about the Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania is scattered across all of his work, published over a period of 30 years (1632-1663). In light of the above, the analysis of Zeiller’s scripts – hardly known to Polish researchers – may be an important element of studies on the image of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its society in 17th-century German Empire. Also, it may provide insight into such issues as the transfer of knowledge and information, reflected, for instance, in how well German writers of that time were acquainted with Polish authors.

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Двосторонні взаємини України і Польщі у світлі повернення та збереження культурних цінностей

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Tatijiwśka I.

Studia Ucrainica Varsoviensia

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2016

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vol. 4

447-461

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The article is devoted to the issue of bilateral relations between Ukraine and Poland today in the sphere of the return and preservation of cultural values. Special attention is paid to questions of protecting existing art objects whose destiny is sponsored by both the Polish, and Ukrainian sides. In particular, the battle paintings of Martino Altamonte which have a direct bearing on the heritage of the royal residence of Yan Sobesky ІІІ.

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Opieka nad nieletnimi w rodzinach szlacheckich w Koronie w XVII wieku. Zarys problematyki i perspektywy badawcze

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Pielas J.

Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski

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2015

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vol. 37

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issue 1

93-106

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The article outlines the problems and research prospects of one of the most common legal institution that was typical of the old-Polish gentry families – the guardianship of minors, which has not been researched in the historical literature so far. The author reminds that in the ancient Polish law there were four ways of establishing the guardianship of minors, which were called: paternal, natural, official and autocratic. Each one of the four might commence only when the previous one had ceased. The author presents the most important findings made by law historians and underlines that they treat with the practical functioning of the guardianship in the reality of the 17th-century gentry of the Crown only superficially. We might familiarise with that practice thanks to other than normative sources, massive in character, namely the old-Polish last wills. In addition to establishing the guardianship, they contain many hints on how to educate and bring up minors. Undoubtedly, the most interesting question is what the guardians were actually doing. And here the essential question is whether their guardianship was good enough, whether they took care of the child (upkeep, upbringing, education) and of the child’s property. One of the objectives of the author of this article will be to present the most common activities undertaken by guardians, that is to say the ‘model’ behaviour of guardians. At the same time – wherever it is possible – it is worth attempting to present the reaction of the children to their guardians’ actions. In this context, there appears a fundamental problem of the scale and kinds of the abuses committed by the guardians, first of all concerning the minors’ land properties, including delaying the people they were in charge of entering into marriage in order to extend the period of their running their land property. An exceptionally important function of the institution of guardianship in the life of the gentry family combined with the research possibilities included in the 17th-century sources offer optimistic prospects for a comprehensive study, which would present the guardianship in gentry families and facilitate a better understanding of how the gentry family functioned in the Crown in the modern times.

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Radius mathematicus Joachima Stegmanna

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Jasiński M.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2015

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vol. 60

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issue 3

33–53

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Joachim Stegmann the elder (1595–1633), Brandenburg born theologian of the Polish Brethren, was also a mathematician. In this area of his activity, he published a textbook for the Unitarian school in Raków, Institutionum Mathematicarum Libri Duo (Two Books of Mathematical Sciences, Raków 1630), and two works describing multifunctional surveying devices: Circinus Quadrantarius (Quadrant Compass, Berlin 1624) and Radius Mathematicus (Mathematical Walking Stick, Berlin 1626). This paper deals with Stegmann’s Radius Mathematicus, which is a description, or rather a manual, of a walking stick of hexagonal section. Each of its sides was engraved with scales of various surveying devices. There were a cylinder sundial, a scale of quadrant for determining the altitude of Sun, a cross staff, a scala altimetra for determining the height of an object basing on the length of its shadow, a caliber gauge for determining the weight of cannonballs, a length of an ell and a gauging rod for surveying barrels. Some surveys had to be conducted with a separate gnomon. The stick was probably about 130 cm long and the gnomon was about 30 cm long. The paper is followed by a reproduction of Radius Mathematicus from the Gdańsk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences (call number Sa 1 8° adl. 11) and its Polish translation.

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Organizacja gwardii nadwornej Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego w latach 1669–1673

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Hundert Z.

Zapiski Historyczne

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2019

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vol. 84

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issue 2

7-31

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The purpose of the article is to analyze the organization of the royal guard of Michał Korybut. The task was to discuss its composition, the size of individual units, and to indicate commanders and changes in the structure of the ruler’s army during his entire reign. Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, according to the files of the election parliament of 1669, could keep only 1200 military men in his guard, who were paid from the royal and not the state treasury. Financial and political problems affected the organization of the guard, which initially numbered only 600–700 people. However, the king managed to organize his side army in the amount allowed by legal norms. Michał organized a large part of his own guard from the soldiers of his predecessor – Jan Kazimierz. The first unit of side troops with the title of leib guard was an infantry regiment of 400–500 people. First, its commander was Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski, and from 1670 it was commanded by the Lithuanian pantler Stanisław Kazimierz Radziwiłł. Commanders of the regiment were at the same time commanders of the entire guard. The next military unit was a unit of Trabants expanded around 1671 to a dragoons’ regiment of 300 horses. The court guard also included: a regiment of dragoons on 200 horses, the Hungarian infantry cavalry (probably 100) under the command of Colonel Samuel Powierski, a light cavalry under the command of Captain Aleksander Kłodnicki (100 horses) and a small unit of royal Cossacks that mainly dealt with mail delivery. The guard organized in such a way fulfilled tasks related to the king’s protection, accompanied him during various ceremonies and took part in the wars waged by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the king’s death, part of his guard was incorporated into the crown army, but it was deprived of the status of a royal guard.

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„Přistání u pustých břehů českých“: Náboženský obraz českých zemí pohledem anglických cestovatelů 17. století

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Ferencová H.

Knihy a dějiny (Books and history)

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2015

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vol. 22

4-22

EN

The article shows the Bohemian lands in the 17th century as mediated by travelogues of English provenance, in particular travel diaries written both for personal use only and to be later published. Attention is mainly focused on the religious situation in Bohemia and Moravia and its transformation in the studied period in the context of the denomination of the English visitors. The paper further briefly describes individual travellers from England, who would come to the European continent for various reasons and would also visit the Kingdom of Bohemia as part of this trip.

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Z dziejów kontrreformacji na Śląsku Cieszyńskim albo jak Suchankowie z Brzezówki w XVII i XVIII wieku wiarę zmieniali

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Morys-Twarowski M.

Historica: revue pro historii a příbuzné vědy (Historica: Review in history and related sciences)

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2018

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vol. 9

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issue 1

83-99

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The starting point of this article is an attempt to answer the following question: why did some peasants in Cieszyn Silesia choose to convert to Catholicism during the Counter-Reformation (1654–1781), while others remained Protestant? This article analyzes the denominational choices of one ordinary peasant family living in Cieszyn Silesia at the time – the Suchanek family, who resided in the village of Brzezówka (now in the Cieszyn district), belonged to the Teschener Kammer (Komora Cieszyńska, Těšínská komora), a princely state owned by the Habsburg family. Contrary to claims made in existing literature, there is no evidence linking an individual’s affluence to their choice of denomination. The decisive factor was in fact the individual’s wife’s denomination – to put it in simple terms, some put emphasis on which church to go to, while others put emphasis on who they go to church with.

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Organizacja gwardii nadwornej Michała Korybuta Wiśniowieckiego w latach 1669–1673

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Hundert Z.

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EN

The purpose of the article is to analyze the organization of the royal guard of Michał Korybut. The task was to discuss its composition, the size of individual units, and to indicate commanders and changes in the structure of the ruler’s army during his entire reign. Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, according to the files of the election parliament of 1669, could keep only 1200 military men in his guard, who were paid from the royal and not the state treasury. Financial and political problems affected the organization of the guard, which initially numbered only 600–700 people. However, the king managed to organize his side army in the amount allowed by legal norms. Michał organized a large part of his own guard from the soldiers of his predecessor – Jan Kazimierz. The first unit of side troops with the title of leib guard was an infantry regiment of 400–500 people. First, its commander was Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski, and from 1670 it was commanded by the Lithuanian pantler Stanisław Kazimierz Radziwiłł. Commanders of the regiment were at the same time commanders of the entire guard. The next military unit was a unit of Trabants expanded around 1671 to a dragoons’ regiment of 300 horses. The court guard also included: a regiment of dragoons on 200 horses, the Hungarian infantry cavalry (probably 100) under the command of Colonel Samuel Powierski, a light cavalry under the command of Captain Aleksander Kłodnicki (100 horses) and a small unit of royal Cossacks that mainly dealt with mail delivery. The guard organized in such a way fulfilled tasks related to the king’s protection, accompanied him during various ceremonies and took part in the wars waged by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the king’s death, part of his guard was incorporated into the crown army, but it was deprived of the status of a royal guard.

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