PINYL: A) Creating a Commonwealth Part 1

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How did Poland and Lithuania come to be joined together as one state? Here we answer that critically important question, as well as several others which go along with it. Of course, our story may begin in the year 1700, but we would be remiss if we didn't mention several threads of the story which brings the narrative to that point. Why did the Commonwealth have an elective monarchy? Why were the nobility so powerful? And perhaps the most pressing question - how did a pagan grand duke of Lithuania, the last of his kind, become engaged to the sole heir of Poland's Catholic Angevin King? It's a story which needs to be heard in full, so make sure you don't miss out! Thanksss so much for making Poland possible, and remember that by listening in, you're not just helping make it viable, you're also funding my PhD! I can't thank you enough!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome history friends patrons all to Poland is not Yet Lost. Episode A, Creating a Commonwealth, Part 1.
0:25.8	That convoluted title must mean that you'll be listening to a podcast project by Zach Twomley.
0:31.8	And if you listen to the introduction episodes, you'll know what we're all about here at Poland is not yet lost.
0:36.4	These lettered episodes,
0:38.5	A, B, C and D will give you a solid basis for the story to come. But they also come with the caveat
0:44.3	that if you're not really interested in why Poland and Lithuania were in a Commonwealth, you don't
0:49.8	care what that means, you don't want to know what Polish history looked like before 1700,
0:55.1	and you couldn't care less about the nobility or their privileges, then that's perfectly fine. You're well
0:59.9	within your rights to skip these foundational episodes and start on episode one instead. I won't
1:06.1	hold your hand, but what I will say is that a number of the themes, issues and debates which we raise in these preparatory episodes will be repeated in the proper numbered episodes.
1:16.5	I will of course remind you guys where those issues came from when we encounter them again in our story, but if you want to know their origins, then these episodes will set you up very nicely indeed.
1:29.4	So what is on the box today?
1:32.2	Well, we're not going to delve into the mists of history to examine where Poland came from as a concept,
1:37.3	since as we surely already know, Trevor Gilbert and his History of Poland podcast has that task down to a tea, so make sure you check
1:46.1	that out if you want to go to the very beginning of this story. Instead, here and in the next
1:52.6	two episodes, we're going to establish how the strange relationship of union and then full-blown
1:58.0	Commonwealth, whatever that is, between Poland and Lithuania, came to take place.
2:03.2	For over 400 years, for better or for worse, Poland and Lithuania were joined at the hip,
2:08.9	and in this episode our first task is to explain why.
2:12.7	We'll then bring the narrative up a few decades and prepare the way for the next episode.
2:17.3	To clarify, our foundation episodes aim to chronologically tell Poland's story, and in Section
2:22.9	A, we bring the story up to the point where the Yagallonian dynasty died out, and in 1569,
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