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Imperium litewskie w miedzyjednostkowych spolecznosciach systemach politycznych: studium przypadku

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Norkus Z.

Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2011

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issue 2(16)

129-154

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The paper explores the epistemic fruitfulness of the contemporary theories of modern relations for historical research about the relations between premodern polities. The application of the neorealist theory in such research is blocked by the assumption that its subject is an international system, consisting of sovereign national states. However, there were no such states (and nations) in medieval Europe and most other places in premodern times. In the article (TS) the concepts of “international system” and “international society” are replaced by the broader notions of “interpolity system” and “interpolity society”, and the distinction between “sovereign polities system/society” and “suzerain (impe rial) polity system/society”, borrowed (with modifications) from Martin Wight. They are used in the case study about the changing roles and challenges of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) as the subject of interpolity relations in XIII- -XV centuries. The second part is about the rise of GDL from the polity playing the role of the barrier (but not that of a buffer) polity, separating Central European and Eastern European interpolity systems and belonging to both of them, to the regional empire and suzerain polity of the Eastern European interpolity system by the early XVth century. However, Lithuanian hegemony in Eastern Europe lasted only for a few years. After 1430, the Eastern European interpolity system was about to transform itself from the suzerain polity system into a multipolar sovereign interpolity system of the type that consolidated in the Central and Western Europe after 1648 and survived for 300 years. However, the political leadership of GDL failed to meet the challenge to maintain an emerging multipolar balance of power in this system. Mainly due to the pursuit by Jagiellonian rulers of GDL and Poland of the dynastic politics in the Central Europe, at least three windows of opportunity to preserve this interpolity system from its annihilation by rising Moscow empire were not used. Last of them was the opportunity to re-establish the independence of Great Novgorod in 1480. These failures of the Lithuanian statesmanship sealed the fate of the Eastern European interpolity system: its disappearance in the Moscow empire. Therefore, the history of Eastern European interpolity politics in the XIII -XVIII centuries is another case proving the finding of the recent research by Stuart J. Kaufman, William C. Wohlforth, Richard Little, David Kangi, Charles Jones, Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Arthur Eckstein, Daniel Deudney and Williams Brenner: that a long-lasting balance of power in a interpolity system is rather an exception than rule, the rule being a displacement of the multipolar or bipolar balance of power interpolity systems by empires.

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The history and culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as preserved in the onomastics of the mid-war Vilnius

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Wegrowska K.

Acta Baltico-Slavica

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2007

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vol. 31

315-324

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The subject of this paper are the language testimonies to the history and culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania remained in the onomastic of the city of Vilnius in the years 1918-1939. The study explains the origin and the etymology of the names fixed in the different urbonims, toponims, architektonims of this city. The paper contains a linguistic and culture analysis of the onims connected with: a) persons (Trakt Batorego <- Stefan Batory, Baszta Giedymina <- Giedymin), b) historical events (Lubelska Street <- Unia Lubelska, Pozarowa Street <- the great fires that plagued Vilnius in 1513-1530), and with other facts which testify the timeless heritage value of the former important State powers.

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Z badań nad prokreacją magnaterii Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego w XVI–XVIII wieku

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Liedke M.

Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski

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2010

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vol. 29

7-27

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The text presents the initial results of research on the demography of magnates in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The author analysed three families: the Radziwiłł, Sanguszko and Chodkiewicz families. She studied the duration of marriages, the number of children in the marriages, the age of male representatives of the families when they married, as well as the age of the women they married. The study was based on published sources, manuscripts, genealogy works, family monographs and biographies. In these three families men married when they were on average slightly over 33 years old; the average age at first marriage was 27 years and at remarriage — about 39 years. Women married at the average age of 20; the average age at first marriage was over 19 years and at second — 23 years. Marriages (114 total) lasted on average 14.2 years; they were shorter in the 16th and the 17th century (about 12 years) and longer in the 18th century (about 18 years). First marriages (80 total) lasted on average 15.5 years (median: 12 years), and second — 11 years (median: 8 years). In all marriages the average number of children was 2.8 children per couple (median: 2), and the number of children surviving to adulthood was 2 per couple. The average number of children in first marriages was higher than in remarriages. Almost three-fourths of children surviving to adulthood were born in first marriages. About half of remarriages were childless. Judging by the results of these three families, fewer children were born to the magnates than to other social groups, but the survival rate of magnate children (71%) was higher than that of children in other groups. Taking into account the survival rate of male descendants, we can see that there was no complete generation renewal in these three families.

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ТИТУЛАТУРА МОНАРХА В КОНТЕКСТЕ ВНЕШНЕПОЛИТИЧЕСКОГО ДИСКУРСА ВЕЛИКОГО КНЯЖЕСТВА ЛИТОВСКОГО И МОСКОВСКОГО ЦАРСТВА В КОНЦЕ XVI ВЕКА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ «МЕТРИКИ ВЕЛИКОГО КНЯЖЕСТВА ЛИТОВСКОГО» 1585 – 1600)ТИТУЛАТУРА МОНАРХА В КОНТЕКСТЕ ВНЕШНЕПОЛИТИЧЕСКОГО ДИСКУРСА ВЕЛИКОГО КНЯЖЕСТВА ЛИТОВСКОГО И МОСКОВСКОГО ЦАРСТВА В КОНЦЕ XVI ВЕКА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ «МЕТРИКИ ВЕЛИКОГО КНЯЖЕСТВА ЛИТОВСКОГО» 1585 – 1600)

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Соловьёва Н.

Slavica Slovaca

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2019

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vol. 54

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issue 2

103 - 111

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The article analyses the composition and structure of titles of Polish-Lithuanian and Russian sovereigns in diplomatic documents listed in the Metric of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) of 1585 – 1600th. Titles functioning is analysed in the context of foreign policy communication of the end of the 16th century being shaped by complex and contradictory relations between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that became part of Rzecz Pospolita in 1569 and the Moscow State. The article shows how under these conditions the titles of monarchs change from being a speech formula with a predominantly etiquette function changes to a means of expressing implicit information and forming political connotations.

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Artykuły wojskowe dla Milicji Karola Stanisława Radziwiłła na tle prawa wojskowego Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego

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Organiściak W.

Z Dziejów Prawa

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2011

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vol. 4(12)

299-319

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The comparative studies conducted show mutual influences of military laws to be obeyed in the Crown and Lithaunia. Military articles by Krzysztof and Janusz Radziwiłł were one of few native military codifications of the gentry Republic of Poland used when writing Military articles from 1775 which, in turn, constituted the only basis for publishing Military articles for the militia of Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł. Radziwiłł’s articles include numerous humane elements. The very tendencies were already visible in codification from 1775, however, a change Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł made in articles in line with the spirit of the very period led to, included among others, the replacement of death penalty with life imprisonment, combined with a forced labour, as well as a total elimination of a disgraceful punishment of denouncement.

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Polskie ślady przeszłości na żmudzkich cmentarzach

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Skłodowski J.

Studia Podlaskie

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2013

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vol. 21

259-277

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Thanks to historical and cultural integrity, the graveyards in Samogitia constitute coherent historical and cultural sphere. For this reason, they can be regarded as broadly understood historical buildings. Such places belonged to the heritage of Lithuanian and Polish nations. The article contains detailed issues such as: the arrangement of historical graveyards on Samogitia land, the location of the graveyards, the characteristics and description of graves, their typology and esthetics, surnames, professional and social status of the buried people, inscriptions on tombstones. The paper also presents the condition of graves and graveyards and essential conservations. The article was based on the field research carried out between 2006-2013.

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Lazarz Mojzeszowicz - an Example of a Jewish Career in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the Mid-seventeenth Century

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Ciesla M.

Kwartalnik Historyczny

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2005

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vol. 112

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issue 4

5-30

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The biography of Lazarz Mojzeszowicz, a Jewish broker and royal secretary active during the mid-seventeenth century in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, was reconstructed upon the basis of documents from the Radziwill archive in Warsaw as well as Metryka Litewska. Lazarz Mojzeszowicz inaugurated his career alongside his older brother and father at the court of Krzysztof Radziwill during the 1620s, when he fulfilled predominantly the function of a banker and real estate leaseholder. During the early 1630s, after Krzysztof Radziwill came to terms with the monarch, Mojzeszowicz concentrated on co-operating with the royal treasury. In 1632 Zygmunt III granted him the post of royal secretary and broker, an appointment subsequently confirmed by Wladyslaw IV and Jan Kazimierz. In his capacity as the king's broker, Mojzeszowicz was directly subjected to royal jurisdiction and exempt from all custom duties and taxes. The foremost branch of his activity consisted of leasing state revenues; from the mid-1620s to the early 1660s he leased Lithuanian customs, tolls and taxes (czopowe and Jewish poglówne). Consequently, he managed to amass a considerable fortune, to win a high social position, and to exert a certain political impact at the royal court. Mojzeszowicz acted as the protector of numerous Jewish kahals in the Grand Duchy and co-operated with the Lithuanian Waadem. His career came to a dramatic and sudden halt after an assault carried out by Stefan Oborski in 1656. The presented portrayal of Lazarz Mojzeszowicz accentuates the most important feature characteristic for the royal factors-Hofjuden in the Commonwealth - the ability to combine the activity pursued at the royal court with serving a local magnate; in both cases, the career was based on family connections.

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