The Silver Age, THE COMMONWEALTH OF BOTH NATIONS, Pawel Jasienica and Alexander Jordan
The Commonwealth of Both Nations by Paweł Jasienica translated by A.T. Jordandigital edition form 1987 edition The Commonwealth of Both Nations (Poland and Lithuania) is the third volume of Paweł Jasienica's monumental history of Poland and its neighbors. The first, Piast Poland, described the birth of a nation and its growing pains, from the 10th to the 14th century. The second, Jagiellonian Poland, felt with the Polish-Lithuanian federation under the king of Poland. It was an era known as the Golden Age, which ended in 1572 with the death of King Zygmunt August, the last of the Jagiellonians. The third volume covers the Silver Age, during which Commonwealth was ruled by elective kings, a Frenchman and a Hungarian, then by the Swedish House of Vasa. Its western border not far from Berlin...
