Description

• Title:
  Between Mercantilism, Oriental Luxury and the Ottoman Threat: Discourses on the Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Kingdom of Poland
• Creator:
  Osipian, Aleksandr
• Description:
  This paper analyses the attitudes toward the Armenian Diaspora in early modern Polish society through a close examination of the issues viewed as burning by the contemporaries. The paper is focused on three such burning topics – a) the ‘price revolution’ and, in connection therewith, mercantilism; b) the growing level of consumption (“redundant luxury” – zbytek nierozmyślny) and the fears of social disorder aroused by it; and c) the Ottoman threat (real and imagined). The paper argues that there were a variety of discourses on the Armenians because the discourses were influenced by the different answers to the challenging issues presented by the representatives of various social estates – noblemen (szlachta), clergymen (duchowieństwo) and burghers (mieszczaństwo). Therefore, the attitudes to the Monophysite Armenians in Polish society were mostly shaped not as part of the Counter-Reformation agenda (as was the case with respect to Protestants and the GreekOrthodox), but rather within the framework of economic (mercantilism), social (consumption), and psychological/political (fears of the Ottoman threat) issues.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Acta Poloniae Historica
• Date:
  2018.08.10
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Acta Poloniae Historica; Vol. 116 (2017); 171-207;
  Acta Poloniae Historica; Tom 116 (2017); 171-207;
  2450-8462;
  0001-6829
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Instytut Historii PAN
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/APH/article/view/APH.2017.116.07/15363
• Subject:
  mercantilism;
  luxury;
  the Ottoman threat;
  trading Diaspora;
  Armenians
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/APH/article/view/APH.2017.116.07
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text