Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe

Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Ph.D. (1992, Catholic University of Lublin) Poland, is a professor of early modern Polish literature at the Catholic University of Lublin. She has published extensively on baroque poetry, religious literary culture, and the comparative context of Polish literature, including the monographs Świat podzielony (1994), Święte i zmysłowe w poezji religijnej polskiego baroku (1998), Pięć stopni miłości (2004), and W stronę Albionu(2017).Robert A. Maryks, Ph.D. (2006, Fordham University, New York City) has published widely on the history of the Jesuits, including Saint Cicero and the Jesuits (Ashgate, 2008) and The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews (Brill, 2009). He is the editor of the Journal of Jesuits Studies, Brill’s series Jesuit Studies, Jesuit Historiography Online, and Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies.

• ContentsNotes on Editors and ContributorsIntroductionMirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee and Robert A. MaryksThe Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Birth of Modern Ukraine: a Reappraisal of the Khmelnytsky “Revolution”Frank E. SysynAbstractKeywords1 National Traditions2 Periodization3 The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and Early Modern Revolts4 The Religious Factor5 New Research Agendas6 ConclusionThe Younger Europe—or the Older? Visions of Politics in the Early Modern Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthAnna Grześkowiak-KrwawiczAbstractKeywords1 On the Main Route: the Republican Tradition2 The Side Path: Disregard of New Concepts3 New Propositions: New RoadsThe “Common Good” and Urban Crisis Management in Early Modern East-Central Europe: the Examples of Danzig and SlutskKarin FriedrichAbstractKeywords1 Self-Interest versus “Common Good” in the “Younger Europe”2 The “Common Good,” Natural Law, and Hugo Grotius3 Danzig’s Conflict with Stefan Báthory4 The “Well-Ordered Government” of the City of Slutsk5 ConclusionGood Editions of Unpublished Texts: the Case of Stefan IavorskiiGiovanna BrogiAbstractKeywords1 Historical and Cultural Context2 Stefan Iavorskii’s Heretige3 Documentary and Cultural Significance4 Stefan Iavorskii and Lazar Baranovych5 ConclusionWords Spoken and Unspoken: Preachers and the Baltic Reformation in the Younger EuropeMaciej PtaszyńskiAbstractKeywords1 Introduction2 Early Reformation in the North3 Stralsund on the Eve of Iconoclasm4 ConclusionThe Younger Europe from a Papal Perspective, 1580–1640Tadhg Ó hAnnracháinAbstractKeywords1 Introduction: Catholic Geography of Europe2 Perceptions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth3 ConclusionThe Battle of Mohács, Re-remembered History, and Hungary’s “Christian” IdentityPaul Shore†AbstractKeywordsConclusionAcknowledgementsYounger, but How? Heterochrony of Premodern European Divisions in the Discourse on Central/East-Central EuropePiotr ChmielAbstractKeywords1 Introduction2 East–West Divide3 From Spatial to Temporal Divisions4 Views on Europe: Time and Space5 Reflections on Early Modern Times6 Toward a Conclusion: Heterochrony, History, and the East–West DivideBibliographyIndex