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Insignia Summorum Principum : using symbols of power in pursuit of higher rank and status by German prince-electors and Polish-Lithuanian princes
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Insignia Summorum Principum : using symbols of power in pursuit of higher rank and status by German prince-electors and Polish-Lithuanian princes
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| title: | Insignia Summorum Principum : using symbols of power in pursuit of higher rank and status by German prince-electors and Polish-Lithuanian princes |
| author: | Rogulski Jakub 
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| journal title: | Virtus |
| volume: | 27 |
| date of publication : | 2020 |
| pages: | 55-78 |
| ISSN: |
1380-6130 |
| DOI: | |
| language: | English |
| journal language: | English |
| abstract in English: | In 1680 an anonymous Polonus Borussus composed a treatise suggesting the equal status between the German imperial princes and the Polish-Lithuanian princely families in terms of their symbolism. Using it as a starting point, the article investigates the way in which these elites expressed their real power and political ambitions in a similar manner. By comparing the Electors of Brandenburg and the houses of Radziwiłł, Wis´niowiecki and Sanguszko it shows that, first, Polonus Borussus did not exaggerate too much when he hinted at the ‘symbolic’ equality of the German electors and the Polish-Lithuanian princes; and second, that these elites differed from each other in two aspects: the primary audiences of their symbolic practices (peers in the case of the German princes as opposed to the middling nobility, the antagonist of the Polish-Lithuanian princes) as well as the potential to exploit symbols (the ‘symbolic audacity’ of the Polish-Lithuanian princes contrasting with the ‘confirmative’ use of the German princes). |
| keywords in English: | elites of power, symbols of power, early modern princes, Holy Roman Empire, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| number of pulisher's sheets: | 1,5 |
| affiliation: | Wydział Historyczny : Instytut Historii |
| field and discipline of science: | Dziedzina nauk humanistycznych : historia |
| type: | journal article |
| subtype: | academic paper |
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