The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788-1792 [electronic resource] : a political history / Richard Butterwick
- Author:
- Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Richard, 1968-
- Published:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 369 pages) : maps
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- 2.The Polish Revolution, the Catholic Church, and the historians -- 3.Decision-making in a republican polity -- pt. 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 doleances -- 5.`An ill humour against the clergy' -- 2.The republican revolution -- 1.The inauguration and confederation of the sejm -- 2.The army and the Military Department: 13 October-3 November 1788 -- 3.The `public' in revolutionary Warsaw -- 4.Casting off the Russian guarantee: 5 November 1788-19 January 1789 -- 5.The implications for the Catholic Church -- 3.The first wave of ecclesiastical polemics (to the summer of 1789) -- 1.Staszic, Nax, Kollataj -- 2.Ecclesiastical temporalities and public utility -- 3.The patriotic paradigm -- 4.Tax or offering? -- 1.The episcopal response to the threat -- 2.`Who is poorer than the Fatherland?' 12-16 March 1789 -- 3.Disputes over tax reductions and exemptions: 17-20 March 1789 -- 4.Baiting the primate: 19, 23, and 24 March 1789 -- 5.Catharsis and controversy: the `Perpetual Offering' and the peasants -- 6.Implementation -- 5.The secularization of the bishopric of Cracow -- 1.Patrimonium Reipublicae? -- 2.The king's predicament: between Lucchesini and Stackelberg -- 3.Trading the bishopric of Cracow -- 4.The denouement: 17 July 1789 -- 5.Equalizing the bishoprics: 20-24 July 1789 -- 6.A political turning point -- pt. II COMPROMISE -- 6.Pamphleteers, journalists, and the Church: summer 1789-spring 1791 -- 1.Pawlikowski, Kollataj, 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 1789-May 1790 -- 1.`The temporality of the Church of Cracow' -- 2.The `clerical deputation', 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 1789-May 1790 -- 6.Deus ex machina -- 8.A limited ecclesiastical reform -- 1.`When war is a hair's breadth away from us...' -- 2.Episcopal salaries or estates? 25-26 May 1790 -- 3.National sovereignty and noble equality: the Duchy of Siewierz, 27-29 May 1790 -- 4.A measure of episcopal reform: 29 May-1 June 1790 -- 5.Among `lesser matters': the Ruthenian rite -- 6.High noon for abbots, and the limits of reform -- 7.Implementation -- 9.`Une renaissance de barbarie'? The autumn of 1790 -- 1.The Project for the Form of Government -- 2.The dominant faith and tolerated faiths -- 3.Controversies in advance of the sejmiks -- 4.`So much fury against education' and the call to restore the Jesuits -- 5.Anti-clericalism and local ecclesiastical interests -- 6.Social, political, cultural, and fiscal questions -- 7.An inexperienced but enlightened new cohort? -- pt. III PROVIDENCE -- 10.The Law on Royal Towns and the Constitution of 3 May 1791 -- 1.The preoccupations of the sejm: December 1790-March 1791 -- 2.The Law on Royal Towns: citizenship, toleration, and religion -- 3.The Revolution of 3 May -- 4.The Revolutionary leadership -- 11.Propagating and sacralizing the Providential Revolution -- 1.A `miracle of the Divine hand, delivering us from ultimate calamity' -- 2.Referendum: the sejmiks of February 1792 -- 3.Apotheosis: 3 May 1792 -- 12.Antichrist comes from France -- 1.A whip, an aspergillum, a stove lid, and a file -- 2.`The French contagion' -- 3.The return of the primate -- 13.Caesar's moral realm -- 1.Rome and the Code of Stanislaw August -- 2.Plans for `uniform and public education' -- 3.The question of the ex-Jesuits at the sejm -- 4.The Police Commission and the Catholic Church -- 5.The battle for ecclesiastical censorship -- 14.Ecclesiastical reform---for the Orthodox -- 1.Raison d'etat versus raison d'Eglise -- 2.`So that no clergyman would be useless in his condition' -- 3.Autocephality for the Orthodox -- 4.The final effort to reform the Catholic clergy -- 5.A Ukrainian coda -- Conclusion -- 1.Epilogues -- 2.Explanations -- 3.Legacies.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780191730986 (ebook)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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