Urszula Augustyniak (born 1950) is a Polish historian and academic, who specializes in cultural history of the

early modern period The early modern period is a Periodization, historical period that is defined either as part of or as immediately preceding the modern period, with divisions based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity. There i ...

. She graduated in history from the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

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 asymmetri ...

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

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

20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers 1950 births Living people Polish women academics Polish women historians 21st-century Polish historians Academic staff of the University of Warsaw {{Poland-historian-stub