Urszula Augustyniak (born 1950) is a Polish historian and academic, who specializes in cultural history of the early modern period. She graduated in history from the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

in 1973. She holds a PhD (1979) and habilitation (1988) from the same university. She has been full professor since 2000. Urszula Augustyniak is a member of editorial board of " Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce". She has written extensively about the functioning of the Polish-Lithuanian royal court, customs of the nobility,

clientelism Clientelism or client politics is the exchange of goods and services for political support, often involving an implicit or explicit quid-pro-quo. It is closely related to patronage politics and vote buying. Clientelism involves an asymmetric rel ...

, relations between the clergy and the secular estate, religious differences in the early modern period, Baroque art and the ways of disseminating information in

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Books

*Informacja i propaganda w Polsce za Zygmunta III (1981) *Koncepcje narodu i społeczeństwa w literaturze plebejskiej od końca XVI do końca XVII wieku (1989) *Testamenty ewangelików reformowanych w Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim (1992) (second edition published in 2014) *Skarb litewski za pierwszych dwu Wazów : 1587-1648 (1994) *Wazowie i "królowie rodacy" : studium władzy królewskiej w Rzeczypospolitej XVII wieku (1999) *Dwór i klientela Krzysztofa Radziwiłła (1585-1640) : mechanizmy patronatu (2001) *W służbie hetmana i Rzeczypospolitej : klientela wojskowa Krzysztofa Radziwiłła (1585-1640) (2004) *Historia Polski 1572-1795 (2008) *Państwo świeckie czy księże? Spór o rolę duchowieństwa katolickiego w Rzeczypospolitej w czasach Zygmunta III Wazy. Wybór tekstów (2012) *History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: State - Society - Culture - Editorial work by Iwo Hryniewicz - Translated by Grażyna Waluga and Dorota Sobstel (2015)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Augustyniak, Urszula 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers 1950 births Living people Polish women academics Women historians 21st-century Polish historians Academic staff of the University of Warsaw