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The book discusses how the most severe abuses of political power,
traditionally termed from the ancient times as 'tyranny', were
presented in 16th century political philosophy, propaganda, and
literature in Italy, France, England, Scotland, German countries,
and Poland-Lithuania. Using a unique interdisciplinary methodology,
the book is both timeless and timely as it demonstrates various
approaches of acknowledged Renaissance intellectuals to the problem
of tyranny and how best to avoid or fight it. The author
consciously avoids categories of the classic history of ideas or
political thought and instead reveals broader intellectual and
cultural connections in the perception of tyranny in the 16th
century and its impact on modern debates on different dangers of
political abuses of power.
This book covers two fields of research. The first part of the
volume includes essays authored by Polish, German, Czech, and
Ukrainian archeologists and historians on the genesis and unique
nature of the roads whereby Christianization proceeded in Polish
lands in the early Middle Ages in the context of the kindred
processes underway especially from the 10th century in neighboring
lands. The second part of this publication includes considerations
on the politics of memory as applied to the beginnings of statehood
in Poland and Kievan Rus'. Chosen examples reveal the uniqueness
and the evolution of various politics of memory related to the
founding myths of statehood in modern Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
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