The Polish revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792 : a political history /

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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Main Author: Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Richard, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of tables""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Pronunciation guide""; ""A note on terminology and measures""; ""Maps""; ""Genealogical table""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth""; ""2 The Polish Revolution, the Catholic Church, and the historians""; ""3 Decision-making in a republican polity""; ""PART I: PLUNDER""; ""1. The Commonwealth and the Catholic Church in 1788""; ""1 The bishop and bishopric of Cracow""; ""2 The sejmiks of August 1788""; ""3 The instructions of 1788""; ""4 A comparison with the cahiers de doléances""
  • ""5 â€?An ill humour against the clergyâ€?""""2. The republican revolution""; ""1 The inauguration and confederation of the sejm""; ""2 The army and the Military Department: 13 Octoberâ€?3 November 1788""; ""3 The â€?publicâ€? in revolutionary Warsaw""; ""4 Casting off the Russian guarantee: 5 November 1788â€?19 January 1789""; ""5 The implications for the Catholic Church""; ""3. The first wave of ecclesiastical polemics (to the summer of 1789)""; ""1 Staszic, Nax, Kołłątaj""; ""2 Ecclesiastical temporalities and public utility""; ""3 The patriotic paradigm""; ""4. Tax or offering?""
  • ""1 The episcopal response to the threat""""2 â€?Who is poorer than the Fatherland?â€? 12â€?16 March 1789""; ""3 Disputes over tax reductions and exemptions: 17â€?20 March 1789""; ""4 Baiting the primate: 19, 23, and 24 March 1789""; ""5 Catharsis and controversy: the â€?Perpetual Offeringâ€? and the peasants""; ""6 Implementation""; ""5. The secularization of the bishopric of Cracow""; ""1 Patrimonium Reipublicae?""; ""2 The kingâ€?s predicament: between Lucchesini and Stackelberg""; ""3 Trading the bishopric of Cracow""; ""4 The dénouement: 17 July 1789""
  • ""5 Equalizing the bishoprics: 20â€?24 July 1789""""6 A political turning point""; ""PART II: COMPROMISE""; ""6. Pamphleteers, journalists, and the Church: summer 1789â€?spring 1791""; ""1 Pawlikowski, Kołłątaj, Staszic""; ""2 The discourse of scandal: anti-clerical pamphlets""; ""3 Defences of the clergy: Canons Skarszewski and Jezierski""; ""4 In the columns of the press: France and the Habsburg Monarchy in turmoil""; ""5 Providentialism and covenantalism in pastoral letters and sermons""; ""7. On the brink of schism: August 1789â€?May 1790""
  • ""1 'The temporality of the Church of Cracowâ€?""""2 The â€?clerical deputationâ€?, the episcopate, and the nuncio: preparations""; ""3 Recruitment, local government reform, and the Educational Commission""; ""4 Religious dimensions of the urban and constitutional questions""; ""5 The negotiation of a compromise: October 1789â€?May 1790""; ""6 Deus ex machina""; ""8. A limited ecclesiastical reform""; ""1 â€?When war is a hairâ€?s breadth away from us . . .â€?""; ""2 Episcopal salaries or estates? 25â€?26 May 1790""