Friars on the Frontier

Focusing on the Dominican Order's activities in south-eastern Poland from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries this book reveals the renovation and enduring popularity of the pre-existing Mendicant culture of piety in the period following the Council of Trent. In so doing it opens up new vistas on the history of the Counter-Reformation, Polish-Lithuanian noble identity and the nature of religious renewal in a multi-ethnic and multi-denominational state.

Dr Piotr Stolarski is a Catholic historian and poet. He studied at the universities of London and Aberdeen.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Historiography: 'Sarmatian Catholicism' and the 'Post-Tridentine Model'; Chapter 2 Dissonance in Catholic Culture: Anticlericalism and the Jesuits, 1573-1648; Chapter 3 Renewing the Order of Friars Preachers, 1564-1648; Chapter 4 Patrons and Patronage: Prince W?adys?aw Vasa's Generation; Chapter 5 Prescribing Renewal: Fabian Birkowski and Dominican Preaching Culture; Chapter 6 Internalising Renewal: Piety and Penance; Chapter 7 Mendicant Catholicism: Dominicans and Catholic Noble Identity; Chapter 8 Conclusion;