Paulina
16 Mar 2023
Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]
For example:
scholar.harvard.edu/pmalysz/content/heretics-house-polish-tolerance
"The Dawn of the Reformation: Rome May Have Her Way - We Have Our Own
Both this doctrine and the peaceful co-existence within the same state of many confessions could not have remained without impact on the later development of religious freedoms for Protestants. Sixteenth-century supporters of the Reformation repeatedly appealed to those deeply rooted traditions. They insisted that, if the Orthodox and the Muslims could at one time have been tolerated alongside the Catholics, similar treatment must now be accorded to the Lutherans, Calvinists, as well as Anti-Trinitarians, who called themselves the Polish Brethren. This attitude found support in the foreign policy of Sigismund I (1506-1548), which in practice took little heed of the missionary goals of Rome. The Polish monarch, despite the Papacy's fervent protests, was the first among Europe's rulers to recognize as his vassal a Lutheran duke, the Prussian Albrecht von Hohenzollern.[2] Instead of the anti-Turkish crusade, for which the Church had repeatedly called, a life-long peace agreement was concluded with the High Porta in 1535. Finally, Polish nobility were forbidden to take part in the religious wars in Germany, regardless of the side."
For example:
scholar.harvard.edu/pmalysz/content/heretics-house-polish-tolerance
"The Dawn of the Reformation: Rome May Have Her Way - We Have Our Own
Both this doctrine and the peaceful co-existence within the same state of many confessions could not have remained without impact on the later development of religious freedoms for Protestants. Sixteenth-century supporters of the Reformation repeatedly appealed to those deeply rooted traditions. They insisted that, if the Orthodox and the Muslims could at one time have been tolerated alongside the Catholics, similar treatment must now be accorded to the Lutherans, Calvinists, as well as Anti-Trinitarians, who called themselves the Polish Brethren. This attitude found support in the foreign policy of Sigismund I (1506-1548), which in practice took little heed of the missionary goals of Rome. The Polish monarch, despite the Papacy's fervent protests, was the first among Europe's rulers to recognize as his vassal a Lutheran duke, the Prussian Albrecht von Hohenzollern.[2] Instead of the anti-Turkish crusade, for which the Church had repeatedly called, a life-long peace agreement was concluded with the High Porta in 1535. Finally, Polish nobility were forbidden to take part in the religious wars in Germany, regardless of the side."
