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Zusatztext For a variety of reasons, The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 17881792 -- the condensed English-language version of a 988-page Polish-language tome -- is an exceptionally important book with lessons for a wide academic audience. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
