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Challenging Nobility and Protestants in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

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This book examines how Jesuit political, social, and polemical ideas functioned in seventeenth-century Poland–Lithuania through the case of Jan Chądzyński (c.1602–1660). It reconstructs his biograp...
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  • 04 June 2026
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This book examines how Jesuit political, social, and polemical ideas functioned in seventeenth-century Poland–Lithuania through the case of Jan Chądzyński (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 Chądzyński’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.
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Price: $119.00
Pages: 344
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Jesuit Studies
Publication Date: 04 June 2026
ISBN: 9789004763593
Format: Hardcover
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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.
Michał 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.