• 1. Introduction
• 2. Royal Weddings: Protocol, Identity and Emotion
• 3. Coronation: Consort to Royal Power
• 4. Political Culture and Rhetoric of Queenship
• 5. Conception, Childbirth and Motherhood: Performing a Royal Family
• 6. Conclusion.
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Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship-an absence which, together with early modern Poland's marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.
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• Contents
• List of Figures
• Map of Jagiellonian Europe
• Jagiellonian family tree
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction: space, time and dynasty
• Natalia Nowakowska
• Chapter 1: Our foreign traitors and redeemers: remembering Jagiellonians in Lithuania
• Giedre Mickunaite
• Chapter 2: An ambiguous golden age:Jagiellonians in Polish memory and historical consciousness
• Natalia Nowakowska
• Chapter 3: The memory of the Jagiellonians in the Kingdom of Hungary, and in Hungarian and Slovak national narratives
• Stanislava Kuzmova
• Chapter 4: Did Bohemian Jagiellonians exist?
• Ilya Afanasyev
• Chapter 5: Remembering Jagiellonians in German-Speaking lands
• Dusan Zupka
• Chapter 6: Remembering a past princess: Catherine Jagiellon and the construction of national narratives in Sweden and Finland
• Susanna Niiranen
• Chpater
• 7: The Jagiellonians in Belarus: a gradual release of memory
• Simon M. Lewis
• Chapter 8: The Jagiellonians in Ukrainian traditions
• Tetiana Hoshko
• Chapter 9: The Jagiellonian Dynasty in Russian historiography and memory
• Olga Kozubska-Andrusiv
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Remembering the Jagiellonians is the first study of international memories of the Jagiellonians (1386-1596), one of the most powerful but lesser known royal dynasties of Renaissance Europe. It explores how the Jagiellonian dynasty has been remembered since the early modern period and assesses its role in the development of competing modern national identities across Central, Eastern and Northern Europe. Offering a wide-ranging panoramic analysis of Jagiellonian memory over five hundred years, this book includes coverage of numerous present-day European countries, ranging from Bavaria to Kiev, and from Stockholm to the Adriatic. In doing so, it allows for a large, multi-way comparison of how one shared phenomenon has been, and still is, remembered in over a dozen neighbouring countries. Specialists in the history of Europe are brought together to apply the latest questions from memory theory and to combine them with debates from social science, medieval and early modern European history to engage in an international and interdisciplinary exploration into the relationship between memory and dynasty through time. The first book to present the Jagiellonians' supranational history in English, Remembering the Jagiellonians opens key discussions about the regional memory of Europe and considers the ongoing role of the Jagiellonians in modern-day culture and politics. It is essential reading for students of early modern and late medieval Europe, ninteenth-century nationalism and the history of memory.
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"Tej samej listopadowej nocy w Krakowie na świat przychodzą dwie dziewczynki: karlica Dosia - nieślubna córka służącej i słodownika, oraz Katarzyna - potomkini królewskiej pary. Jest rok 1526. Kilka lat później Dosia zostaje sprzedana na dwór królowej Bony. Maskotka jednak okazuje się sprytniejsza, niż wszyscy myśleli. Ma dostęp do królewskiego stołu, śpi w komnacie królewien i towarzyszy córkom Zygmunta Starego - Jadwidze, Izabeli, Zofii, Annie i Katarzynie - od pełnego nadziei dzieciństwa aż po nieszczędzącą upokorzeń dorosłość. Zna ich lęki i marzenia. Ociera łzy królewny Anny, kiedy zalotnicy wybierają jej młodszą siostrę Katarzynę. Podąża śladami Bony Sforzy knującej kolejną intrygę przeciwko wybrance serca Zygmunta II Augusta. Czuwa przy boku królewny Katarzyny, nieszczęśliwej i uwięzionej przez chorego psychicznie króla Szwecji Eryka XIV w twierdzy Gripsholm pod Sztokholmem, stając się powierniczką swej pani i skrycie usuwając z jej drogi wrogów. Oczami karlicy Dosi poznajemy koleje królewskiego życia, obserwujemy damy dworu, mieszczki, wieśniaczki i ladacznice. Zaglądamy do wawelskich komnat, pracowni alchemików, izb porodowych i domów rozpusty. Dosia widzi wszystko. I nie zapomina. Zaskakująca, nowatorska, fabularyzowana opowieść o wyjątkowym momencie w historii Polski, w którym dynastia Jagiellonów znajduje się u szczytu potęgi i zarazem na skraju przepaści."

• I. Towards Union
• II. Establishing the Union
• III. Crisis: 1422-1447
• IV. Consolidation and Change
• V. Dynasty and Citizenship
• VI. Reform
• VII. Union Accomplished
• Bibliography
• Gazeteer.
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The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. For 300 years the greatest power in Eastern Europe was the union between the kingdom of Poland and the grand duchy of Lithuania, one of the longest-lasting political unions in European history. Yet because it ended in the late-eighteenth century in what are misleadingly termed the Partitions of Poland, it barely features in standard accounts of European history. The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 1385-1569 tells the story of the formation of a consensual, decentralised, multinational, and religiously plural state built from below as much as above, that was founded by peaceful negotiation, not war and conquest. From its inception in 1385-6, a vision of political union was developed that proved attractive to Poles, Lithuanians, Ruthenians, and Germans, a union which was extended to include Prussia in the 1450s and Livonia in the 1560s. Despite the often bitter disagreements over the nature of the union, these were nevertheless overcome by a republican vision of a union of peoples in one political community of citizens under an elected monarch. Robert Frost challenges interpretations of the union informed by the idea that the emergence of the sovereign nation state represents the essence of political modernity, and presents the Polish-Lithuanian union as a case study of a composite state. The modern history of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus cannot be understood without an understanding of the legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian union. This volume is the first detailed study of the making of that union ever published in English.
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