Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Archives

Reception of Christian Hebrew Studies in Renaissance Poland

December 31, 2012 By Medievalists.net

While talking about Polish Renaissance I mean the period from the end of 15th century until 1638, when the Arian printing house in Raków was closed. Referring to Poland, I mean, first of all, the territory of the Kingdom of Poland, which was tightly connected with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its fiefdom lands.

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Formation and Transformations of Dynastic Ties between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland from 1386–1501

June 23, 2012 By Medievalists.net

King Władysław II Jagiełło kneeling before the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fresco in the Chapel of the Holy Trinity in Lublin.

JŪRATĖ KIAUPIENĖ is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Lithuanian History, Vilnius, Head of the Section on the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Professor of History at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. She published numerous books and articles on this subject.