Leiden ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2009.

xix, 307 p., [5] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Studies in Central European histories, 1547-1217 ; v. 46

Studies in Central European histories ; v. 46.

Includes bibliography (p. [279]-299) and index.

Contents : Monarch, citizens, and the law under Stefan Batory : the legal reform of 1578 / Felicia Roșu -- Citizenship in the periphery : royal Prussia and the Union of Lublin 1569 / Karin Friedrich -- The practice of citizenship among the Lithuanian nobility, ca. 1580-1630 / Artūras Vasiliauskas -- Civic resilience and cohesion in the face of Muscovite occupation / Barbara M. Pendzich -- Identity formation in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth / Gershon David Hundert -- Khmelnytsky's shadow : the confessional legacy / Barbara Skinner -- Commonwealth of all faiths : republican myth and the Italian diaspora in sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania / Joanna Kostylo -- 'County republicans' and the concept of active citizenship in sixteenth-century Poland and France / James B. Collins -- The hidden commonwealth : Poland-Lithuania and Scottish political discourse in the seventeenth century / Allan Macinnes -- Freedom, state and "national unity" in Lord Acton's thought / Krzysztof Łazarski.

Citizenship -- Poland -- History.

Group identity -- Poland -- History.

Friedrich, Karin, 1963-

Pendzich, Barbara M.

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