
Challenging Nobility and Protestants in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Jan Chadzynski (c.1602-1660) and the Jesuit Political and Social Thought
Michal Nowakowski(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 4. June 2026
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-90-04-76359-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines how Jesuit political, social, and polemical ideas functioned in seventeenth-century Poland-Lithuania through the case of Jan Chadzynski (c.1602-1660). It reconstructs his biography, establishes his dispersed and often misattributed writings, and analyzes his political and social treatises and anti-Protestant satires. Drawing on Jesuit archival records and textual analysis, the study situates Chadzynski's views on royal authority, noble liberty, social injustice, and Protestantism within the political debates of the Commonwealth and the wider framework of early modern Jesuit thought in Europe, while showing how local controversies in Vilnius shaped the form and aims of his writing.
Reviews / Votes
The author's Polish-language dissertation on which this book builds was awarded Best Doctoral Dissertation on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Defended in 2024 or 2025 by the Center for Early Modern Studies at the University of Opole, Poland.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
691 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-76359-3 (9789004763593)
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Person
Michal E. Nowakowski, Ph.D., is an assistant researcher in the Department of Early Modern Polish Literature at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. His research focuses on Catholic-Protestant polemical literature, Jesuit political and social thought, and early modern diplomatic theory.