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Introduction

Classical Republican Tradition and the Polish Republican Discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2020

Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves
Translated by
Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa
Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves
Affiliation:
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
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The political theory that developed in Poland in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries can be read as primarily a theory of the libera res publica, a free, well-ordered commonwealth. The term res publica was widely used in both its Latin version and Polish calque (rzeczpospolita) and indicated that with the rise of the Renaissance prominence was given also in political theory to the heritage of the ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and its key political and ethical concepts.

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Polish Republican Discourse in the Sixteenth Century , pp. 1 - 17
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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