Senatorowie wobec spraw wyznaniowych na sejmie 1597 roku
The senators and denomination affairs during the Sejm of 1597

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the attitude of senators to religious matters at the Sejm in 1597. It was an extremely turbulent assembly, the first one after the conclusion of the Brest Union. It shows the great commotion that this act caused in the multinational society of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The defence of Orthodoxy by Protestants also showed an alliance between dissidents. In the history of this alliance, the Sejm I am analysing occupies a special place, because for the first time in its forum there was cooperation between Orthodox and Protestants in defense of the Warsaw confederation concluded in 1573. Thanks to the use of Sejm diaries, correspondence and written newspapers, I present Sejm speeches of senators during the sessions of the Sejm. Their juxtaposition makes it possible to state that this issue played a significant role in the internal politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 16th century.

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