{"title":"Sharing Political Space: The Royal Court and the Polish-Lithuanian Sejm in the Seventeenth Century","authors":"Katarzyna Kosior","doi":"10.1177/02656914251353017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251353017","url":null,"abstract":"In 1667, Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro, political thinker and senator of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, argued that fewer sejms should be held to prevent the royal court's corruption of the szlachta from the lower chamber. He feared that envoys, tempted by a political career in the ambit of the court, would seek royal patronage and neglect their local and military responsibilities. This article thinks Fredro's concerns through spatially, considering how the blurring of parliamentary and courtly spaces was manifest at Wawel in Kraków and the royal palace in Warsaw, the royal residences where sejms took place. Limited space necessitated improvisation to facilitate the political processes of parliamentary monarchy. There were occasions when parliamentary activity spilled over into the royal apartments, which could be used as breakout rooms for ‘private discussion’, the work of commissions or deputations, and, crucially, by the king seeking to manage parliamentary conflict away from the public forum of sejm. This was vital given that the system was based on common consent, rather than a majority vote. At the same time, parliamentary space could be used for the entertainments and displays of royal favour associated with the royal court. Furthermore, parliamentary debates were open and public, meaning that courtiers were able to come in and out of parliamentary spaces, exerting influence over parliamentarians. The Polish-Lithuanian monarchy was parliamentary, but this article shows how its sejm was monarchical. To an extent, the king could manage parliamentary processes through the use of space and tempt the szlachta to strive for his favour. Drawing on Fredro's writings and parliamentary and szlachta diaries, which include accounts of the king hosting ‘convivial sessions’ in parliament, this article provides a new perspective on the entangled nature of courtly and parliamentary cultures in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Lenin Lives? by Christopher Read ReadChristopher, Lenin Lives? , Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2024; 208 pp.; 9780198866084, £30.00 (hbk)","authors":"Francis King","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"278 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Many Modern Industrial Spies are Excellent Scholars’: Industrial Counterespionage and Images of Knowledge in Czechoslovakia During the Great Depression","authors":"Tomáš Gecko","doi":"10.1177/02656914251351528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251351528","url":null,"abstract":"The article uses Yehuda Elkana's theory of images of knowledge to link the ideological demand for industrial counterespionage in interwar Czechoslovakia with the shifting legitimacy of what was then considered publicly beneficial corporate research. Using industrial counterespionage as an example, the article traces continuities in the discourse on the security of technology transfer, while at the same time analysing the related state interventions during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The premise of the article is that in Czechoslovakia, between the 1920s and 1930s, the importance of such images of knowledge, whose content was ‘security’ and the ‘protection’ of society from foreign (and domestic) threats gradually increased. External influences such as the Great Depression and the threat to Czechoslovakia's territorial integrity by its neighbours in the 1930s accelerated these shifts but did not cause them. There was a growing ideological need for protection in society, which reinforced the security-oriented images of knowledge and, through the implementation of industrial counterespionage, ultimately led to restrictions on the technology transfer in corporate research. This is well illustrated by the expert debates on the Economic Espionage Act of 1935, which are examined in this article.","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation by Isaac Nakhimovsky NakhimovskyIsaac, The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation , Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 2024; 328 pp., 9 b/w illus.; 9780691195193, £35.00 (hbk); 9780691255491, £35.00 (ebook)","authors":"Morgan Golf-French","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Leftist Internationalisms: A Transitional Political History by Michele Di Donato and Mathieu Fulla, eds Di DonatoMicheleFullaMathieu, eds, Leftist Internationalisms: A Transitional Political History , Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2023; 280 pp., 10 b/w illus.; 9781350247918, £85.00 (hbk); 9781350247949, £28.99 (pbk); 9781350247925, £26.09 (ebook)","authors":"Duncan Bowie","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Poland under German Occupation 1939–1945: New Perspectives by Jonathan Huener and Andrea Löw, eds HuenerJonathanLöwAndrea, eds, Poland under German Occupation 1939–1945: New Perspectives , Berghahn: Oxford, 2024; 216 pp.; 9781805392439, £104.00 (hbk)","authors":"Michael Fleming","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851c","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Myth-Making and Nation-Building: Ziia Buniiatov and the Construction of the Azerbaijani Past by Sara Crombach CrombachSara, Myth-Making and Nation-Building: Ziia Buniiatov and the Construction of the Azerbaijani Past , Uitgeverij Pegasus: Amsterdam, 2023; 258 pp.; 9789061434863, €26.00 (pbk)","authors":"Vadim Mukhanov","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 by Andrea Rottmann RottmannAndrea, Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 , University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2023; 266 pp.; 9781487547806, $37.95 (pbk)","authors":"Bodie A. Ashton","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851g","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"699 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: The Jews of Lithuania: A Journey through the Long Twentieth Century by Nick Sayers SayersNick, The Jews of Lithuania: A Journey through the Long Twentieth Century , Vallentine Mitchell: Elstree, 2024; 324 pp.; 9781803710655, £19.95 (pbk)","authors":"Theodore R. Weeks","doi":"10.1177/02656914251350851h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914251350851h","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44713,"journal":{"name":"European History Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144693968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}