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An Examination Of Bernard Connor's The History Of Poland (1698) And Its Depiction Of The Political, Religious, And Cultural History Of The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, John Paul Bardunias
An Examination Of Bernard Connor's The History Of Poland (1698) And Its Depiction Of The Political, Religious, And Cultural History Of The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, John Paul Bardunias
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Connor was an Irish-born member of seventeenth-century English medical society who made an impact on medicine through his use of anatomy. This forward-thinking scientist also worked as a court physician for the Polish king John III Sobieski (1629- 1696) and published a history of that country.
This thesis will examine Bernard Connor's 1698 publication The History of Poland to show that the Commonwealth was considered a vision of a progressive European parliamentary government that could serve as a model for a struggling English parliamentary government, thus supporting Larry Wolff and Maria Todorova's vision of the later eighteenth-century creation of …