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The objective of this research paper is to offer a fundamental historiographical discourse on the comprehensiveness of the cross-European socio-cultural influences on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and to analyse the associated impacts on formulating the historiographical literature of early modern Europe. This research paper explores how cross-European socio-cultural influences and European identities dominated the historiographical literature of early modern Europe, how cultural assimilation within the cross-European cultural contexts shaped the conditions for the birth of a multicultural Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as in contrast with states ruled by absolute monarchies. The research paper presents a comparative historiographical analysis by comparing the dynamics of multinationalism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with that of the economic, socio-cultural, and political environments in the states ruled by absolute monarchies. It also deliberates on what is presently absent in the contemporary historiographical literature of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Therein, the findings of this research constitute a significant starting point for future research on cross-European socio-cultural influences that dominated early modern historiography of Europe in general and of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in particular.

Absolute Monarchies; Cross-European Socio-Cultural Influences; Cultural Assimilation; Dynamics of Multinationalism; Early Modern Europe; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.