Britain and Poland-Lithuania: Contact and Comparison from the Middle Ages to 1795 (The Northern World)

Contents\n......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Maps......Page 12
A Note on Proper Names......Page 14
Preface (Richard W. Unger, University of British Columbia)......Page 16
List of Abbreviations......Page 24
List of Contributors......Page 28
Foreword Taking Stock—Looking Forward (Richard Butterwick, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London)......Page 30
Contacts......Page 46
Early Commercial Contacts between England, Prussia and Poland (Nils Hybel, University of Copenhagen)......Page 48
England\'s Contacts with Poland-Lithuania in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries (Wendy R. Childs, University of Leeds)......Page 64
Polish Ships in English Waters in the Later Middle Ages (Maryanne Kowaleski, Fordham University)......Page 84
Comparisons: Religion, Society, and Culture......Page 110
Preaching on Martyr-Bishops in the Later Middle Ages: Saint Stanislaus of Kraków and Saint Thomas Becket (Stanislava Kuzmová, Central European University, Budapest)......Page 112
The Papacy and the Nations of Scotland and Poland, c. 1250-1334 (Sarah Layfield, University of Durham)......Page 132
Holy Frontiersmen? Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-century Monastic Colonisation and Socio-Economic Change in Poland and Scotland (Richard D. Oram, University of Stirling)......Page 148
Border Communities between Violence and Opportunities: Scotland and Pomerania Compared (Emilia Jamroziak, University of Leeds)......Page 168
Polish and English Peasants in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: a Comparative View (Piotr Guzowski, Institute of History, University of Białystok)......Page 182
England and Poland: Medieval Metropolises Compared (Derek Keene, Institute of Historical Research, University of London)......Page 192
Polity, Diplomacy and War......Page 210
The Commonwealth and Monarchia Mixta in Polish and English Political Thought in the Later Sixteenth Century (Tomasz Gromelski, Balliol College, University of Oxford)......Page 212
Poland and Britain against the Ottoman Turks: Jerzy Ossolinski\'s Embassy to King James I in 1621 (Paweł Rutkowski, Warsaw University)......Page 228
Liberty, Virtue and the Chosen People: British and Polish Republicanism in the Early Eighteenth Century (Benedict Wagner-Rundell, Magdalen College, University of Oxford)......Page 242
Religion and Toleration......Page 260
Corollaries of Commerce between England and Gdansk (Danzig) in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Romance, Heresy, Employment, and Epidemic (John Fudge, Corpus Christi College, Vancouver)......Page 262
Witch-hunting in Poland and England: Similarities and Differences (Brian P. Levack, University of Texas-Austin)......Page 278
Polish Religious Persecution as a Topic in British Writing in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century (Beata Cieszynska, University of Lisbon and Kazimierz Wielki University)......Page 288
Diasporas......Page 306
Kraków Citizenship and the Local Scots, 1509-1655 (Waldemar Kowalski, Akademia Świętokrzyska, Kielce)......Page 308
The Nation Epidemical: Scoto-Britannus to Scoto-Polonus (Arthur H. Williamson, California State University, Sacramento)......Page 332
Britain and Gdańsk (Danzig) in the Eighteenth Century as a Case Study for Cultural Transfer—the interdependence of the \'bourgeois public\' and the social activities of British residents in Gdansk in a period of enlightened \'Anglophilia\' (Almut Hillebrand, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald)......Page 350
Impressions and Stereotypes......Page 372
Scotsmen and the Polish Nobility from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century (Peter Paul Bajer, Monash University)......Page 374
The View from the Margins: Ireland and Poland-Lithuania, 1698-1798 (Róisín Healy, National University of Ireland, Galway)......Page 400
The Picture of England and Englishmen in Polish Memoirs during the Reign of Stanislaus Augustus (1764-1795) (Dariusz Rolnik, Silesian University, Katowice)......Page 420
Ideas and Art......Page 434
Polish-English (British) Philosophical Contacts and Comparisons from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century (Jan Wolenski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków)......Page 436
Echoes of the East: Glimpses of the \'Orient\' in British and Polish-Lithuanian Portraiture of the Eighteenth Century (Aleksandra Koutny-Jones, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)......Page 446
Bibliography......Page 466
Index......Page 514