The Polish-Lithuanian Parliament of 1569– 1795 consisted of three houses: The King, Senate and House of Representatives. The King and Representatives were elected in general election. The members of the Senate were arbitrarily appointed by the King for a lifetime tenure. There is an extensive literature on the forming of the Polish-Lithuanian elite of power in the 16th–18th centuries. The article proves that the literature missed several vital aspects of the issue. Even if the appointments to the Senate were arbitrary, they reflected the real position of politicians in the country’s social network, as if the social network were the real ruling power in the country, influencing the King’s decisions. And the status of politicians was better c...
The aim of the article is the analysis of the composition of the representation of the Grand Duchy o...
The article discusses the sejmiks of Płock Voivodeship, which assembled in Raciąż between 1780 and ...
This article attempts to offer a new assessment of the attitudes and reactions of the Polish Senate ...
The article deals with the specifi city of the noble democracy in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
The article presents an analysis of the Lithuanian political scene in the first years of the reign o...
The article concerns sejmiks in the land of Liw, which was located in the voivodship of Mazovia. In ...
The royal throne was a permanent element of feudal political culture, and the institution of the mon...
Besikeičianti politinė situacija užimtose Abiejų Tautų Respublikoje, Lietuvos Didžiosios kunigaikšty...
The article provides a pattern of analysis of personal composition of political elite at local level...
The aim of the article is to examine the most important forms of social activity of the petty and mi...
The article analyses attitudes of the Lithuanian nobility towards the inheritance of the throne of t...
This article discusses selected aspects of the way Lithuanian sejmiks proceeded in the times of Perm...
This article reviews the attitude firmly entrenched in historiography that Polish noblemen who came ...
To identify the structure of network ties within Polish political elites; to study the features of n...
The article deals with the GDL noblemen’s participation in the clientage system. Women of the ruling...
The aim of the article is the analysis of the composition of the representation of the Grand Duchy o...
The article discusses the sejmiks of Płock Voivodeship, which assembled in Raciąż between 1780 and ...
This article attempts to offer a new assessment of the attitudes and reactions of the Polish Senate ...
The article deals with the specifi city of the noble democracy in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
The article presents an analysis of the Lithuanian political scene in the first years of the reign o...
The article concerns sejmiks in the land of Liw, which was located in the voivodship of Mazovia. In ...
The royal throne was a permanent element of feudal political culture, and the institution of the mon...
Besikeičianti politinė situacija užimtose Abiejų Tautų Respublikoje, Lietuvos Didžiosios kunigaikšty...
The article provides a pattern of analysis of personal composition of political elite at local level...
The aim of the article is to examine the most important forms of social activity of the petty and mi...
The article analyses attitudes of the Lithuanian nobility towards the inheritance of the throne of t...
This article discusses selected aspects of the way Lithuanian sejmiks proceeded in the times of Perm...
This article reviews the attitude firmly entrenched in historiography that Polish noblemen who came ...
To identify the structure of network ties within Polish political elites; to study the features of n...
The article deals with the GDL noblemen’s participation in the clientage system. Women of the ruling...
The aim of the article is the analysis of the composition of the representation of the Grand Duchy o...
The article discusses the sejmiks of Płock Voivodeship, which assembled in Raciąż between 1780 and ...
This article attempts to offer a new assessment of the attitudes and reactions of the Polish Senate ...