{"id":56580,"date":"2026-07-23T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=56580"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:26:33","slug":"polands-role-in-europe-was-sienkiewicz-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/?p=56580","title":{"rendered":"Poland&#8217;s Role in Europe \u2013 Was Sienkiewicz Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TdINklLKzYyYPTiSS1PVCjJyM8tKM7PAwBoLwh0&amp;q=ewa+thompson\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-127 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/et158s11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ewa_Thompson\"><strong>Ewa Thompson&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> new article,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deliberatio.eu\/en\/opinions\/non-germanic-central-europe-key-to-european-stability-or-periphery-of-empires\"><strong><em>Non-Germanic Central Europe: Key to European Stability or Periphery of Empires?<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, has been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/deliberatio.eu\/\"><strong>delibeRatio.eu<\/strong><\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>The author is\u00a0analysing Poland&#8217;s role in Europe, trying to demonstrate that Sienkiewicz was right in his book <strong><em>The Knights of the Cross (&#8220;Krzy\u017cacy&#8221;)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The publication in which the article appeared, <a href=\"https:\/\/deliberatio.eu\/\"><strong>delibeRatio.eu<\/strong><\/a>, is also worth recommending, Dr. Thompson says!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deliberatio.eu\/en\/opinions\/non-germanic-central-europe-key-to-european-stability-or-periphery-of-empires\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-56583\" src=\"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Krzyzacy_s-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Krzyzacy_s-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Krzyzacy_s.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A few years ago, I had an opportunity to read the first English translation of treatises by a Polish Catholic bishop and lawyer Pawel W\u0142odkowic (1370-1435). The treatises were written in Latin and had never before been translated into Polish or English. Among others, they contain W\u0142odkowic\u2019s speeches at the Council of Constance (1414-1418), in which he participated as a member of the Polish delegation. W\u0142odkowic argued that, based on natural law, nations have the right to exist in peace even if they are not Christian. Conversion by force should not be practiced or encouraged. He argued for recognition of the rights of nations and for institution of international law that would oblige European powers to stay within the borders of their states and abstain from starting wars with their neighbors to enlarge their territory, under the pretext of converting them to Christianity<\/em>.<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/deliberatio.eu\/en\/opinions\/non-germanic-central-europe-key-to-european-stability-or-periphery-of-empires' class='small-button smallsilver'><span>Read whole article<\/span><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ewa Thompson&#8217;s new article,\u00a0Non-Germanic Central Europe: Key to European Stability or Periphery of Empires?, has been published in delibeRatio.eu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-books","category-from-our-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56580"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56595,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56580\/revisions\/56595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum-polonia-houston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}