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The Sarmatian Myth: How Poland Imagined Its Noble Past
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the strange and beautiful idea of Sarmatism — the early modern Polish belief that the szlachta, the noble class of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, were descendants of the ancient Sarmatians, a nomadic people from the steppes. This myth shaped everything: fashion, politics, religion, and even the way Poles saw themselves in the world. We trace how it started with Renaissance historians like Maciej Miechowita, peaked with the lavish Sarmatian portraits of the seventeenth century, and then got savaged by Enlightenment critics like Stanisław Konarski…
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