Crisis and Innovation: The Constitutional Evolution of Poland-Lithuania during the Interregnum (1572–1573)

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Crisis and Innovation: The Constitutional Evolution of Poland-Lithuania during the Interregnum (1572–1573)

Original language description

Chapter analyses the constitutional crisis triggered by the death of Sigismund II Augustus, the last male Jagiellon, in 1572. His death without an heir exposed legal ambiguities in succession and destabilised the political order established by the Union of Lublin. The chapter argues that the interregnum, though marked by factional conflict and foreign intervention, became a catalyst for constitutional innovation. The nobility asserted its political authority, redefining the balance of power within the Commonwealth. The Henrician Articles of 1573 formalised the principle of free royal election and imposed lasting limitations on royal power, consolidating the elective and republican character of the Polish-Lithuanian political system.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2026

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Interregnum. Reassessing 'Decline' and 'Rebirth' in Late Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania

ISBN

978-2-503-60125-0

Number of pages of the result

13

Pages from-to

281-293

Number of pages of the book

305

Publisher name

Brepols

Place of publication

Turnhout

UT code for WoS chapter

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