One state that emerged from others. The image of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Alessandro Guagnini’s writings

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Anglų kalba / English
Title:
One state that emerged from others. The image of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Alessandro Guagnini’s writings
Authors:
Gis, Kacper
In the Journal:
Open political science. 2019, 2, p. 188-196
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Istorijos mokslas / History science; Literatūros istorija / Literary history; Spauda / Press; Aleksandras Gvanjinis (Alessandro Guagnini); 1569-1795. Lietuva ATR laikotarpiu; Lenkija (Poland); Lietuva (Lithuania).
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LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Alessandro Guagnini; Abiejų Tautų Respublika; Valdymo istorija; Senieji leidiniai; Sarmatija. Keywords: Alessandro Guagnini; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Administrative history; Old prints; Sarmatia.Reikšminiai žodžiai: Abiejų Tautų Respublika (ATR; Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów; Žečpospolita; Sandrauga; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth); Sarmatija; Senieji spaudiniai; 16 amžius; 17 amžius; Aleksandras Gvanjinis (Alessandro Guagnini); Rašytojai; Karininkai; Old prints; Sarmatia; 16th century; 17th century; Writers; Officers.

ENResearch concerning the history of government and administration should be based not only on historical documents (like legal acts) but also narrative or literary sources such as chronicles. These texts contain large amounts of information about old forms of administration. A good example of that kind of narrative source is the description of European Sarmatia written by Alessandro Guagnini. The author of this text was Italian, who lived in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the turn of sixteenth and seventeenth century. This text was a historical and geographical relation about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its neighbours. It was reprinted in different editions and in few languages having a considerable impact on a perception of abovementioned state and even Central and Eastern Europe as well. In modern times Guagnini’s works have been quite forgotten, nevertheless its renewed analysis leads to interesting information at various levels. One of them is presentation of government model in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The described state consisted of few great regions each of which had its own administrative division, history and customs. Together they merged into a great political entity ruled by one monarch and approaching unification. The purpose of this article is to present administrative division in the pages of the described chronicle and how that division was ideologically legitimated by appealing to ancient Sarmatia. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.1515/openps-2019-0018
ISSN:
2543-8042
Subject:
Istorija / History
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