It consolidates Poland-Lithuania's entrance into top-tier scholarship conceived and written in English over the past twenty years or so -a process parallel, and related to, an analogous inclusion of Poland, Lithuania, and East Central Europe in the general historiography of medieval Europe. The book is a major benchmark in Frost's distinguished output addressing specific aspects of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's history, situated in the broad context of its contemporary Europe. Robert Frost has written an outstanding book, as good as it is big-a major contribution to the history of the polity linked by the hyphen in its title, and to the history of early modern Europe. Piotr could (but will not) be a short review.
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