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Anticlericalism of the nobility in the Polish‑Lithuanian Commonwealth as a research problemArticle is a polemic. The author indicates her distance from the theory of W. Reinhard and H. Schilling, as well as the thesis of some Polish historians, that guarantees religious equality in the Warsaw Confederation of 1573 blocked the process of confessionalization, which is (according to this theory) a necessary condition for modernization of the state and society in the early modern era. In her view, the relationship between the processes of confessionalization and modernization in the Polish‑Lithuanian Commonwealth significantly differs from the model constructed on the basis of the relations in the German Reich – among others, due to socio‑economic nature of the conflict between secular and spiritual states vying for dominance in the Commonwealth from the 16th to the 18th century. Basing on a critical review of the literature and polemical texts, she tries to prove another thesis, that anti‑clericalism of the Polish and Lithuanian nobility can be seen as a manifestation of secularizing trends in Europe in the era of modern confessionalisation. Then she points to unexplored issues, necessary for checking the credibility of allegations against the clergy. In conclusion, she expresses the hope, that further research of religious relations in the Polish‑Lituanian Republic will lead on the final stage to the creation of synthetic studies relating not only to the origins and manifestations of anti‑clericalism of nobility, but also to a new interpretation of the role of the Roman Catholic clergy in its history.
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Republic under Sigismund III Vasa The purpose of the article is to present an attitude of Jerzy and Krzysztof Zbaraski towards the denominational policy and changes in the political system under King Sigismund III Vasa – an issue that has been marginalised in the literature on the subject which focusses mainly on political factography. The article is based on two contemporary pamphlets published anonymously, but attributed to Jerzy Zbaraski, and on letters and texts of the two Zbarskis preserved in manuscript. I argue that the oppositional attitude of the princes towards the monarch and the court party, and especially toward the Jesuit Order, did not stem from the jobbery of the princes but was a result of their beliefs as typical Catholics-politicians and of their late-humanistic intellectual formation, while their political activity, republican in spirit, was of a programmatic character, very much contradictive to the – prevailing both at the Polish court and in the whole contemporary Europe – absolutist tendencies in political system and attempts at confessionalisation of denominational relations. On the basis of a project of reform by Jerzy Zbaraski (1631), I present his concept of an optimal political system of the Commonwealth in the spirit of republicanism (due to the primacy of the estates in the state government) but not populist one (because he attributed the leading role to senators, contrary to the doctrinal principle of the equality of all noblemen).
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Tradition of the Union of Horodło as a political argument in the Polish-Lithuanian relations during the time of the Vasas. Contribution to research  The subject of the deliberations is an anonymous publicist text entitled “Fundamenta catholicae religionis”. The text from the manuscript of the Czartoryski Library refers directly to the Union of Horodło. On the basis of an analysis of its content, the authoress of the article has dated it to the year 1632 – that is to the beginning of the period of interregnum after the death of Sigismund III Vasa; it was a time of persistent political struggle between on the one hand, the royalist faction which grouped supporters of hereditary monarchy and Catholic confessionalization, and on the other hand, the Protestant-Orthodox opposition under the leadership of Krzysztof II Radziwill. The most important feature of the above text, from the point of view of taking advantage of the tradition of the Union of Horodło in the political argumentation, is emphasizing the contractual character of the union and refusing Lithuanians (and particularly Catholics) an equal share in the public and civil rights, on a par with the Poles. It is worth noting that according to the conception of a strong Catholic monarchy, propagated by the supporters of Catholic confessionalization (above all by Jesuits), it is suggested, albeit in a concealed way, that the decisions concerning issues of key importance to the state, should be made by the monarch himself as well as the senators (particularly the clergy), whereas the public rights of the gentry, including the Catholic one, are limited to the defense of the state.The basis of the historical-legal argumentation at the times of the Vasas was not a historical factography in the present-day understanding of this term, but rather historiosophy whereas the interpretation of the Polish-Lithuanian relations and the status of the Great Lithuanian Duchy in the Polish-Lithuanian federation depended on the political option and the religion of the authors. This concerns also the resolutions and the tradition of the Union of Horodło which contrary to the intentions of its initiators and participants was often used in an instrumental way.
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