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Важный опыт просопографического исследования. О книге Войцеха Кравчука «Верные королю»
The Wojciech Krawczuk’s book «Wierni Królowi» is an innovative prosopographical study of a very special group of emigrants – Finns and Swedes – in late 16th century to Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The author analyzed all possible sources that could give information on these people, studied different groups of those emigrants (aristocracy,
bureaucracy, clergy, gentry, women, etc.) and phenomena of “Swedish Court” of Polish-Lithuanian king Sigismund III. The author’s main point is that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in its “Golden Age” was very diverse state and society and the king had to take into account interests of all the religious, ethnic and social strata. The biographical information used in the Wojciech Krawczuk’s research brightly proved this thesis. The second half of the book is the publication of documents on the group under consideration with very detailed biographical comment.