Queen Liberty: The Concept of Freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Biographical note
Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Ph.D. (1986) Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, is professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies “Artes Liberales” of Warsaw University, and head of the Enlightenment Literature Department, Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is the author of monographs, source editions and many articles, a number of them dealing with political ideas and discourse in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Readership
Historians of ideas and political thought, also all interested in history of East-Central Europe and anyone interested in early modern republicanism.
Table of contents
Introduction
1. The Polish Szlachta and Their State
2. Golden Liberty– a noble privilege or universal idea?
3. The pillars of freedom
4. Freedom in peril
5. What was wrong with Polish liberty?
6. From defending liberty – to fighting for liberty
Author profiles
Bibliography
Index
1. The Polish Szlachta and Their State
2. Golden Liberty– a noble privilege or universal idea?
3. The pillars of freedom
4. Freedom in peril
5. What was wrong with Polish liberty?
6. From defending liberty – to fighting for liberty
Author profiles
Bibliography
Index
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