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Między Polską Piastów i Polską Jagiellonów a Rzeczpospolitą Obojga Narodów. Refleksje „anarchologiczne” i ich miejsce w rozwoju myśli historycznej Pawła Jasienicy

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Mękarski A.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

2022

issue 1

43–68

In March 1962, Paweł Jasienica, known chiefly for his books on the history of Poland, published an article entitled ‘Polska anarchia’ (‘Polish anarchy’). The article, which appeared in the weekly Przegląd Kulturalny, sparked off a heated debate on the sources of the anarchy into which the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began to descend in the latter half of the seventeenth century. Among those who contributed to the debate were some of the leading historians of the day. Encouraged by the response to his article, Jasienica decided to expand it into a full-length book (completed in the spring of 1963). The author first presents the views expounded in the article from Przegląd Kulturalny, and then he reconstructs the debate and examines how Jasienica referred to it in his work on the anarchy. Since Jasienica’s account of the anarchy covers the period with which he was also concerned in Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów (published in English as The Commonwealth of Both Nations) – the third part of his series on the history of Poland for which he is most acclaimed – the author also attempts to compare the interpretations advanced in one work with those advanced in the other. As regards the anarchy, Jasienica traced its origin back to the reign of the last two kings of the Jagiellonian dynasty . In compliance with their commitment to securing the support of the great magnates on whom they chose to base their power, Sigismund I the Old (1467–1548) and Sigismund II Augustus (1520–1572) refused to endorse political arrangements advocated by the representatives of the Lower House of Parliament. The failure to reform the country along the lines suggested by the latter group led, in the long term, to political chaos. Unlike Jasienica, according to whom the Commonwealth degenerated into anarchy because of the errors committed almost exclusively by the rulers, the academic historians, whose views were inspired by Marxism, linked the state’s political impotence with the policy pursued by the whole nobility as a class. However, as the author shows, in Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów Jasienica radically changed his views. In his later work, all responsibility for the future anarchy was shifted onto Sigismund III Vasa (1566–1632) and his Catholic fanaticism. In revising his interpretation of what is known as the nobles’ anarchy, Jasienica drew, at least to some extent, on works by Jarema Maciszewski and Władysław Czapliński, historians who also represented the official historiography of the Polish People’s Republic.

Écrire l’histoire de la conquête: l’utilisation de l’histoire dans la polémique contre l’Ordre Teutonique au sujet des droits des infidèles (1386–1418)

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Chollet L.

Hereditas Monasteriorium

2014

vol. 4

17-47

The aim of the article is to describe a research project devoted to the use of history in the debate on the rights of unbelievers, from the Christianisation of Lithuania to the Council of Constance. The geopolitical rivalry between the Order of the Teutonic Knights, King Jagiełło’s Poland and Witold’s Lithuania was accompanied by an intense “war of words” centred around the question of the rights of unbelievers and the legitimacy of the crusade against Lithuania. The use of historical topics during this “battle of idea” may have influenced the European elite with regard to the relations between Christian powers and non-Christian peoples as well as the issue of the activities of Teutonic Order. In the first part of the article, I ask how history was used by Polish and Lithuanian delegates in Constance to defend the idea of the unbelievers’ freedom. In addition to using legal arguments based mainly on medieval law, the disputants referred to historical facts, which was supposed to prove that the Teutonic Order had no legitimacy in fighting against the Baltic pagans. The second part of the article deals with the sources available for shaping a “Polish-Lithuanian” way of describing the history of the Baltic conquest by the Teutonic Knights. The third part of the article presents two prospective research projects concerning the use of history in the debates on the rights of unbelievers. The first is dedicated to the “long term” history of the Baltic conquest by the military orders; the idea is to demonstrate that similar problems regarding the rights of the pagans or converts appeared already in the 13th or 14th centuries. The second research idea focuses on pagan Samogitia. As Lithuania was trying to take over the province, local history was used by Polish and Lithuanian diplomats to prove that by their evil behaviour the Teutonic Knights failed to bring baptism to Samogitian pagans.

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Między Polską Piastów i Polską Jagiellonów a Rzeczpospolitą Obojga Narodów. Refleksje „anarchologiczne” i ich miejsce w rozwoju myśli historycznej Pawła Jasienicy

Écrire l’histoire de la conquête: l’utilisation de l’histoire dans la polémique contre l’Ordre Teutonique au sujet des droits des infidèles (1386–1418)