Richard Butterwick

Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792

A Political History

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Produktbeschreibung

Richard Butterwick draws on diplomatic and political correspondence, speeches, pamphlets, sermons, pastoral letters, proclamations, records of local assemblies, and other sources to explore a volatile relationship between altar, throne, and nobility in Poland at the end of Europe's Ancien Régime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 751g
• ISBN-13: 9780199250332
• ISBN-10: 0199250332
• Artikelnr.: 33722322

Autorenporträt

Richard Butterwick is the author of Poland's Last King and English Culture: Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732-1798 (OUP, 1998), and numerous articles on the political, religious, cultural, and intellectual history of the Polish-Lithuanian lands in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I: Plunder
1: The Commonwealth and the Catholic Church in 1788
2: The Republican Revolution
3: The First Wave of Ecclesiastical Polemics (to the summer of 1789)
4: Tax or Offering?
5: The Secularization of the Bishopric of Cracow
Part II: Compromise
6: Pamphleteers, Journalists, and the Church: Summer 1789 - Spring 1791
7: On the Brink of Schism
8: A Limited Ecclesiastical Reform
9: Une Renaissance de Barbarie? The Autumn of 1790
Part III: Providence
10: The Law on Royal Towns and the Constitution of 3 May 1791
11: Propagating and Sacralizing the Providential Revolution
12: Antichrist comes from France
13: Caesar's Moral Realm
14: Ecclesiastical Reform - for the Orthodox
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Glossary
Index