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Ewolucja poglądów Jana Olbrachta i Aleksandra Jagiellończyka w kwestii kształtu unii polsko-litewskiej

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Godlewski Ł.

Białostockie Teki Historyczne

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2016

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vol. Białostockie Teki Historyczne, 2016, tom 14

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In consequence of Kazimierz Jagiellonczyk’s death in 1492, the Polish and Lithuanian throne, after the 46-year-long personal union, again came under the rule of two different rulers – Jan Olbracht was on the throne in Cracow and Aleksander Jagiellończyk in Vilnius. My research pertaining to the evolution of Jan Olbracht’s and Aleksander Jagiellończyk’s views on the shape of the Polish-Lithuanian Union proves that in several respects, e.g.: political situation, external threats, interests of the Jagiellonian dynasty, their standpoint changed with time. Yet, undoubtedly, the major factor deciding about the change in the viewpoint on the shape of the Polish-Lithuanian Union was the casus of having a male heir. As long as the brothers believed they could count on offspring, the Jagiellonians restricted Polish-Lithuanian relations to the military-political alliance. Yet, when Jan Olbracht and Aleksander Jagiellończyk realized they would die childless, the interest of the Jagiellonian dynasty became their priority. The original reluctance to fulfill former union provisions, which provided for closer cooperation within the union, and even incorporation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into the Crown, evolved towards the establishment of a unitary and hereditary Jagiellonian monarchy consisting of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Poland and Ukraine in East-Central Europe: View from Ukraine

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Zashkilnyak L.

Confrontation and Cooperation: 1000 Years of Polish-German-Russian Relations

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2015

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vol. 2

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issue 2

46-53

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Polityczne, historyczne i kulturowe aspekty unii polsko-litewskiej w twórczości Józefa Weyssenhoffa

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Demkowicz A.

Tematy i Konteksty

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2019

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vol. 14

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issue 9

327-347

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Józef Weyssenhoff was a highly popular and widely read author at the end of the 19th and in the early 20th century. He was active as a writer, literary critic, and journalist during the time of the Young Poland movement and in the interwar period. He wrote his works at the turn of the two centuries and in the first decades of the new century. Throughout the later stage of his literary activity, i.e. from 1905 until his death, Weyssenhoff was greatly interested in politics. His contacts, reads, own observations and experiences in this matter gave rise to his tendentious political novels. The subjects he raised and reflected upon include the issue of the Polish-Lithuanian conflict, which caused a huge controversy in the first decades of the 20th century. Weyssenhoff demonstrated his own stance on the matter in his novel Union, published in 1910, which he wrote during the period of intensification of the national movement in Lithuania, particularly in Vilnius. The author regarded the movement to be politically dangerous, propagating hatred towards Poland, and able to cause the common cultural, historical, and political heritage of Poland and Lithuania to be destroyed. Young Lithuanian activists were acting to the detriment of the Polish language, depreciating the value of anything Polish. The conflict between Poland and Lithuania increased the risk of russification. The author suggested that what should be done in those circumstances was seek to restore the Polish-Lithuanian alliance. He showed the readers of his book how that process should be initiated. The marriage between the protagonists of Union: Kazimierz Rokszycki, a Pole, and Krystyna Sołomerecka, a Lithuanian, who loved their common motherland, serves as a symbol of a new, revived relationship between Poland and Lithuania.

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Ewolucja poglądów Jana Olbrachta i Aleksandra Jagiellończyka w kwestii kształtu unii polsko-litewskiej

Poland and Ukraine in East-Central Europe: View from Ukraine

Polityczne, historyczne i kulturowe aspekty unii polsko-litewskiej w twórczości Józefa Weyssenhoffa