Britain and Poland-Lithuania

Richard W. Unger, Ph.D.(1971) in Economic History, Yale University, is Professor at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on the history of shipping and beer production and consumption in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Specialists in Polish history and British, especially Scottish, history as well as academic libraries and some public libraries in Poland.

"...It is not possible here to do full justice to such a rich and wide-ranging collection, but it affords considerable intellectual pleasure and is to be highly recommended."
Jolanta Choinska-Mika (University of Warsaw), Slavonic and East European Review (vol. 89, no. 1, January 2011).

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
A note on Proper Names
Preface: Richard W. Unger
Foreword
1. Richard Butterwick: Taking Stock – Looking Forward

Part I - The Middle Ages
Contacts:
2. Nils Hybel: Early Commercial Contacts between England, Prussia and Poland
3. Wendy Childs: England’s Contacts with Poland-Lithuania in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
4. Maryanne Kowaleski: Polish Ships in English Waters in the Later Middle Ages

Comparisons: religion, society, and culture:
5. Stanka Kuzmova: Preaching on Martyr-Bishops in the Later Middle Ages: Saint Stanislaus of Kraków and Saint Thomas Becket
6. Sarah Layfield: The Papacy and the Nations of Scotland and Poland, c.1250-1334
7. Richard D Oram: Holy Frontiersmen? Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-century Monastic Colonisation and Socio-Economic Change in Poland and Scotland
8. Emilia Jamroziak: Border Communities between Violence and Opportunities: Scotland and Pomerania Compared
9. Piotr Guzowski: Polish and English Peasants in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: a comparative view
10. Derek Keene: England and Poland: medieval metropolises compared

Part II: The Early Modern Period
Polity, Diplomacy and War:
11. Tomasz Gromelski: The Social and Political Values of the Polish and English Gentry in the Late Sixteenth Century
12. Pawe» Rutkowski: Poland and Britain against the Ottoman Turks: Jerzy Ossolinski=s Embassy to King James I in 1621
13. Benedict Wagner-Rundell: Liberty, Virtue and the Chosen People: British and Polish Republicanism in the Early Eighteenth Century

Religion and Toleration:
14. John Fudge: Corollaries of Commerce between England and Danzig [Gdansk] in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: Romance, Heresy, Employment, and Epidemic
15. Brian Levack: Witch-hunting in Poland and England: similarities and differences
16. Beata Cieszynska: Polish Religious Persecution as a Topic in British Writing in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century

Diasporas:
17. Waldemar Kowalski: Cracow Citizenship and the Local Scots, 1509-1655
18. Arthur H. Williamson: The “Nation Epidemical”: Scoto-Britannus to Scoto-Polonus
19. M. St. Almut Hillebrand: Britain and Grańsk (Danzig) in the Eighteenth Century as a Case Study for Cultural Transfer B the interdependence of the ‘bourgeois public’ and the social activities of British residents in Gdansk in a period of enlightened ‘Anglophilia’

Impressions and Stereotypes:
20. Peter Paul Bajer: Scotsmen and the Polish nobility from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
21. Róisín Healy: The View from the Margins: Ireland and Poland-Lithuania, 1698-1798
22. Dariusz Rolnik: The picture of England and Englishmen in Polish memoirs during the Reign of Stanislaus August ( 1764-1795 )

Ideas and Art:
23. Jan Wolenski: Polish-English (British) Philosophical Contacts and Comparisons from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century
24. Aleksandra Koutny-Jones: Echoes of the East: Glimpses of the ‘Orient” in British and Polish-Lithuanian Portraiture of the Eighteenth Century

Bibliography