A Brief History of Poland, part 5: conflict in the seventeenth century
Notes from Poland
English - March 31, 2021 22:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsNews Commentary News Society & Culture poland polish politics history of poland polish culture poland news. Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the fifth part of our Brief History of Poland series, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill looks at the war-torn seventeenth century and the beginnings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s decline, covering the period between 1582 and 1699. He examines the Polish occupation of the Moscow Kremlin, the Counter-Reformation and the Baroque, Sarmatian culture, Ukraine and the Khmelnytsky Uprising, conflict with the Ottoman Turks, and the Battle of Vienna.
The Brief History of Poland series will cover over a thousand years of Polish political and cultural history, from 966 until today.
Producer: Sebastian Leśniewski
Check out the previous episode in our Brief History of Poland series.