History of Poland in the Early Modern Period 2900-L-HNWPL-ANG

The texts required for each class will be announced during the proceeding class.
The majority of the primary and secondary sources will be accessible on my profile (Polish version) on the website of the Institute of History: http://www.ihuw.pl/instytut/o-instytucie/pracownicy/dr-natalia-krolikowska-jedlinska
Katalog: Travelling to and from P-L
Password: Gazi1453

1 – Introduction to the course: Locating Poland-Lithuania in time and space.

2 – Introduction to the course 2

Radhika Seshan, The Constructions of the East in Western Travel Narratives, 1200 CE to 1800 CE, Oxford-NY 2019

3 and 4 – On the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Gaspar de Tende, An Account of Poland Containing a Geographical Description of the Country, the Manners of the Inhabitants, and the Wars They Have Been Engag'd In, the Constitution of That Government, Particularly the Manner of Electing and Crowning Their King, London 1698, first English edition (reprint: Charleston SC 2011)

Robert Frost, Initium Calamitatis Regni? John Casimir and monarchical power in Poland-Lithuania 1648–1668, “European History Quarterly” 16/2 (1986), 181-207.
Robert Frost, The Ethiopian and the Elephant: Louise-Marie Gonzaga and queenship in an elective monarchy, 1645–1667’, “Slavonic and Eastern Review”, 91/4 (2013), 787-819.
Robert Frost, The Death of Military Culture? The Citizen Army and the Military Failure of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1648-1717, in: Winfried Speitkamp, ed. Gewaltgemeinschaften: Von der Spätantike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2013), 207–227.
Antoni Mączak, Power Society and Power System in the Renaissance, in: The Polish Renaissance in its European Context, ed. Samuel Fiszman, Bloomington and Indianapolis 1988.

5,6 and 7 - The Wild Fields viewed by Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan,

Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, A Description of Ukraine, translated with commentary by Andrew Pernal, Dennis Essar, Cambridge MA 1991

Victor Ostapchuk, The Zaporozhian Cossacks and the Dnipro River Refugium, in: Mediterranean Rivers in Global Perspective, Eds. Johannes Bernhardt and Markus Koller. Leiden 2019, 273-302.
Sergii Plokhy, The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (Chapter 1: The Ukrainian Cossacks), Oxford 2004.
Frank Sysyn, Framing The Borderland: The Image of the Ukrainian Revolt and Hetman Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi in Foreign Travel Accounts, in: From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War, ed. Malte Griesse, Blefeld 2014, pp. 127-157

8 – An adventurous life of a Central-Eastern European woman – the travels of Samuela Pilszynowa

The Istanbul Memories in Salomea Pilsztynowa’s Diary »Echo of the Journey and Adventures of My Life« (1760), eds. Stanisław Roszak, Paulina Dominik, Bonn 2017.

Cezary Kukło, Marriage, Children and Family in Polish Cities and Towns in the 16th-18th centuries, in: Studies on family and household in preindustrial Poland, ed. W. Walczak, Białystok 2015, pp. 117-144.

9 – Fall of the Safavid Empire viewed by a Polish Jesuit

Judas Thaddeus Krusinski, The History of the Late Revolutions in Persia: An Eyewitness Account of the Fall of the Safavid Dynasty, ed. R. Matthee, 2013.

10 – Joseph Marshall in Poland-Lithuania

Joseph Marshall, Travels through Germany, Russia, and Poland, 1769-1770, London 1772 (reprint: New York 1971)
L. Wolff, Inventing Eastern Europe: the map of civilization on the mind of the Enlightenment, Stanford 1994, s. 1-49.

11 – Lady Elizabeth Craven in the East

A Journey Through the Crimea to Constantinople: In a Series of Letters from the Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Craven…, 1789 (reprint)

Józef Andrzej Gierowski, Reforms in Poland after the ‘Dumb Diet’ (1717), in: Constitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Poland: The Constitution of 3 May 1791, ed. Samuel Fiszman, Bloomington 1997.

Zofia Zielińska, Poland between Prussia and Russia in the 18th Century, in: Constitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Poland: The Constitution of 3 May 1791, ed. Samuel Fiszman, Bloomington 1997.

12 – Princess Izabela Czartoryska in England

Tour through England : diary of princess Izabela Czartoryska from travels around England and Scotland in 1790 / Izabela Czartoryska née Flemming ; edited with an introduction by Agnieszka Whelan, translated by Agnieszka Whelan and Zdzisław Żygulski jun., Toruń 2015. [IH XIb.1618]

Richard Butterwick, Poland's Last King and English Culture: Stanisław August Poniatowski, 1732-1798 (Chapter 5, and optionally 1and 2), Oxford 1998.