In today's article I would like to present a new editorial, which appeared on the Polish market exactly one month ago. It is a job for a very broad perspective of research, describing the history of more than 400 years of common history of Polish and Lithuanian.
'History of Lithuania. Polish-Lithuanian duet ', created through the cooperation of three authors - the Polish historian Andrzej Reckoning, and two researchers of Lithuanian - Jurate Kiaupiene and Zigmantas Kiaupa.
This is not a book, three authors, co-editors. This is precisely the duet - they are two different views on the same topic.
This dual perspective is an entirely new form, we have been virtually absent in the history of Polish historiography. It is also extremely important event because of the still unfinished normalization of Polish-Lithuanian relations.
Although this subject is vast and extremely complicated, it succeeded in this work the authors present two rather different perspective of the history of Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the history of modern Lithuania. It is also worth mentioning that individual chapters have been enriched by a great part of the iconographic, made in Lithuania, the special needs of that work.
disputed points in more than 400-year history of our two countries are many. Indeed, the mere personal union signed Krewo in 1385, has a completely different meaning for the modern history of Lithuania, rather than our history. Very soon appear on the pages of the work so the question is, what were the actual legal effect of that union for both countries, and whether it was linked them together on the basis of equal rights. Polish readers will surely surprise the fact that from the perspective of Lithuania, that Lithuania has a number of unions included the Polish at the time, tended to be more niepatriotyczny and indeed the most important aspect of these were economic, not political. However
this work is a unique event from the perspective of the history of Polish and Lithuanian, which for centuries formed after a state. Becomes a unique platform for exchange of views, an attempt to better understand the history of both our countries and to better understand the events that took place over those 400 years of common history.
'History of Lithuania. Polish-Lithuanian duet ', Count Andrzej , Jurate Kiaupiene, Zigmantas Kiaupa, DiG Publishing House, 2009
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