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Queen Liberty:
The Concept of Freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth
Studies in Central European
Histories
Edited by
Thomas A. Brady, Jr., University of California, Berkeley
Roger Chickering, Georgetown University
Editorial Board
Steven Beller, Washington, D.C.
Atina Grossmann, Columbia University
Peter Hayes, Northwestern University
Susan Karant-Nunn, University of Arizona
Mary Lindemann, University of Miami
David M. Luebke, University of Oregon
H.C. Erik Midelfort, University of Virginia
David Sabean, University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri
Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley
VOLUME 56
The titles published in this series are listed at brill.nl/sceh
Queen Liberty:
The Concept of Freedom in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
By
Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz
Translated from Polish by
Daniel J. Sax
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2012
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Cover illustration : “Polonia-Libertas,” frontispiece of Szymon Starowolski’s book Polonia , (ed.
Dantisci, Amsterdam 1652), Warsaw University Library, Sd.711.291. With kind permission of the
Warsaw University Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz, Anna.
 Queen Liberty : the concept of freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth / by Anna
Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz ; translated from Polish by Daniel J. Sax.
  p. cm. -- (Studies in Central European histories, ISSN 1547-1217 ; v. 56)
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
 ISBN 978-90-04-23121-4 (hbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-23122-1 (e-book) 1. Poland--
Politics and government--1572-1763. 2. Lithuania--Politics and government. 3. Liberty--History.
4. Nobility--Political activity--Poland--History. 5. Nobility--Political activity--Lithuania--History.
6. Political culture--Poland--History. 7. Political culture--Lithuania--History. 8. Poland--Intellectual
life. 9. Lithuania--Intellectual life. I. Title.
 DK4291.G74 2012
 320.01’1--dc23
2012022620
This book has been translated from Polish with the kind support of the Muzeum Historii Polski
(Polish History Museum), Warsaw, Poland.
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ISSN 1547-1217
ISBN 978 90 04 23121 4 (hardback)
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