Research Centre for Polish-Lithuanian Studies

in collaboration with:

Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw
Polish Studies, University of Cambridge

The Idea of the Republic in Poland-Lithuania.
A Conversation with Robert Frost

Robert Frost in a conversation with Dr Stanley Bill (University of Cambridge) hosted by Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw, will discuss the second volume of his Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania, which Oxford University Press will publish as a trilogy. Volume One, The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385–1569 was published in 2015; Volume Two, which is nearing completion, is entitled The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Republic, 1569–1648. Volume Three will be entitled The Downfall of the Polish-Lithuanian Republic, 1648–1815.
The 1569 Union of Lublin created a unique political system, a common republic that provided the political framework for two separate states and two nations, which was also a union of unions. The Polish-Lithuanian Republic, whose constitutional foundations were laid between 1569 and 1576 represented the most radical attempt in early modern Europe to establish a Renaissance republic, based on the classical idea of the forma mixta. Robert Frost will discuss how this republican ideology permeated all the institutions of Poland-Lithuania, and consider how this unique political construction is difficult to fit into thestandard models of political modernity.

Friday 11 December 2020
4:00 pm GMT via Zoom
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