![]() When I didn’t know anything about Polish history, I tended to think Western history had been progressing toward the modern rule of law since the Dark Ages. As I’ve now learned, he grew up in the most liberal country in Europe while it was undergoing the greatest intellectual awakening outside of the Italian Renaissance, and unlike the situation in Italy, he didn’t have to worry about getting burned at the stake. But I never learned anything about Poland, except for the weird fact that Copernicus showed up, out of nowhere, and suddenly invented modern science. The version of Western history that I was taught in school mostly focused on Spain and Portugal during the 1400s and 1500s, France and Germany in the 1700s and 1800s, Russia and Germany in the 1900s, and Britain during the whole era from the Dark Ages onwards. You can contact lawrence at: or follow me on Twitter. (written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). ![]() Poland was shockingly liberal during the 1400s ![]()
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