King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther

a truly path-breaking work. It is based on a command of a large primary and secondary printed and manuscript literature. It will be a must read for specialists in the history of the early modern Commonwealth, and, most welcome – I can't stress this enough – for important, serious scholars of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation * David Frick, Sehepunkte *
With a wide range of sophisticated tools, including both the careful exploration of individual texts and a very insightful discursive analysis of a whole corpus of sixteenth century documents, Nowakowska has transformed our understanding of the Reformation in Eastern Europe (and beyond). * Comments from the judges of the 2019 Kulczycki Book Prize *
Natalia Nowakowska's book reshapes fundamental historical paradigms about the geographic parameters of the Protestant Reformation and the chronology of the Reformation in Poland ... In her marvelously vivid account of Lutheran political movements on Polish territory, Nowakowska captures the complexity of early sixteenth-century church-state relations and fluidly integrates the religious history of the Polish Republic into wider European trends, portraying it as a key example of how Protestantism dramatically ruptured worldviews across the continent. * Comments from the judges of the 2019 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize *
This monograph by Natalia Nowakowska fills an important gap in the research on the Reformation in Poland. This excellent study will serve as a credible interpretation and a handbook not only for students, but also for the broader public * Maciej Ptaszynski, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Renaissance Quarterly *
[an] excellent monograph ... [it] makes important contributions to the history of religious toleration, Reformation scholarship and research on Central Europe more broadly. It introduces a new way of thinking about toleration in the first half of the sixteenth century * Martin Christ, History *
Nowakowska's research now provides a detailed case study tracing how this played out in the lands of the Polish monarchy. It further convincingly pinpoints the fundamental shift, not merely to a narrowing down of options, but to the changing discourse about doctrine initiated by Luther ... The implications of the hypothesis are far-reaching ... This book shows how important the study of Central and Eastern Europe is to the history of the Reformation. As the first monograph on the subject for over a century it brings the Polish material back into view and into contact with the core scholarship. On a higher level it prompts us to think not only about the catalysts for historical change, but also about how people lived through, experienced and recognized great historical changes as they happened. * Suzanna Ivanic, European History Quarterly *