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among others: * FRAGMENTY HOMILII I PRZEMÓWIEŃJANA PAWŁA II W POLSCE * "Solidarność" wita Ojca Świętego - fragmenty oświadczeń organizacji związkowych
More...Keywords: historical dialectology; philological method; retrospective method; quantitative method; language contact; historical-comparative linguistics; interference; linguistic archaism
The paper discusses methodological issues in historical dialectology. The author concentrates on Polish of the Southern Borderland in the 17th and 18th centuries and provides a comprehensive overview of relevant literature. The paper demonstrates that in studying the Polish language of that period and region it is necessary to apply complex methodology, which would take into account both the classical philological-retrospective method, as well as insights from language contact, comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics and quantitative linguistics.
More...Keywords: social sciences; University of Warsaw; economics; political sciences; psychology; sociology; law
History of the social sciences at the University of Warsaw presented in the volume includes five main fields: economics, political sciences, psychology, sociology and law. The authors of the texts - specializing in the history of their disciplines - write about the process of their development on the academic level and about the changes they have been subjected within the University. The most important research currents, as well as the most distinguished representatives of the disciplines and their achievements are also reported.
More...Keywords: Oświęcim; economy of Oświęcim; history of Oświęcim; churches of Oświęcim; church institutions of Oświęcim; religious life of Oświęcim; history of Oświęcim Jews; Catholic church in Oświęcim
Volume II of the monograph of Oświęcim contains the history of the city. It has been divided into two parts devoted to the systemic changes, spatial and economic development and religious life. The authors discuss the meaning of the name of the city, its districts and streets, and the history of the city’s coat of arms. They present the results of archaeological research and the history of the city from the earliest times until the early years of the People’s Republic of Poland. A separate chapter is devoted to the history of the Oświęcim Jews. The second part discusses, among other things, locations of church buildings, religious orders operating in Oświęcim, as well as outstanding figures of religious life, which contributed to the development of the city.
More...Keywords: Ralph Linton; nativist movements; Polish culture; Slavophilia; Polish pro-independence thought; Slavicism; Enlightenment; Romanticism;
The aim of the article is to present Ralph Linton’s concept concerning the topic of nativistic movements; as well as an attempt to apply it to phenomena occurring in Polish culture after the loss of independence in 1795. It seems that the real threat to the existence of Polish culture through the partitions had to lead to certain mechanism emerging in its structure that were characteristic of nativist movements; which aim to preserve the threatened culture.
More...Universities in Kražiai (Samogitia), Kremenets (Volhynia), and Podolínec(Spiš) were located in the borderland inhabited by different nationalities (Polish,Lithuanian, Ruthenian, German, and Jewish) in the multinational andmulticultural Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. That situation implicatedthe inclusion of certain ideas in the civilization message. The most importantof them implicated the need to develop the civic attitude which we would nowgenerally call European. It was based on Christian values but it was not associatedwith a specific nation, because in those times, the nation made up of thecitizens of the Commonwealth was political, not ethnic. This sense implicatesanother, culture-forming (or even educational) one. It was a pioneering format,in many aspects still valid now, when Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia aremembers of the European Union, and Ukraine aspires to be one.
More...Keywords: Croatia; poetry; illirism; Slavic; Balkans
The present article sheds light on the works about Croatia and croatian worldview in the second half of the XIX-th century. It shows the ways and models of understanding the microdimensions of Croatia in various texts, especially in: Trzy miesiące w Chorwacji of Louis de la Roque, Obecny ruch literacki w Chorwacji and Literatura chorwacka w latach 1879–1880 by Bronisław Grabowski, Odrodzenie Chorwacji w wieku XIX and Mesjaniści i słowianofile by Marian Zdziechowski or Iliryzm i Słowiańszczyzna (Studia nad odrodzeniem chorwackim) by Jerzy Pogonowski. The author discusses with different views on Croatia, The Balkans and Slavic prsented in those texts. The purpose of the article is to show the specific mechanism, that can be helpful in understanding political, historical, ideological and social dimensions of this region of South-Eastern Europe.
More...Keywords: Bolesław Leśmian; translation; poetry; philology of the impossible; language; neologism; cognition
The article analyses selected English and German translations of Bolesław Leśmian’s poetry, with a special focus on the solutions regarding versification, rhythm, and language (dialectological structures, syntactical forms and neologisms characteristic of Leśmian’s poetic writing). The translation strategies employed by Sandra Celt, Rochelle Heller Stone, Michael J. Mikoś, David Malcolm, Karl Dedecius, are compared with the solutions used by other translators, including Czesław Miłosz, Janek Langer, Barry Keane, Cathal McCabe, Benjamin Paloff, Anita Jones Dębska, Ryszard J. Reisner, Marcel Weyland, Leo Yankevich, Marek Urban, Marian Polak-Chlabicz, Lorenz Scherlag.
More...Keywords: Polish-Lithuanian law; sources; Russian law; partitions of Poland; publications of sources of law
After the partitions of Poland, the Statute of Lithuania (1588) remained the basic source of law in the territories incorporated into Russia. The statute, albeit with the provisions on the state system and criminal law removed, retained quite far-reaching application in the field of civil law until its eventual repeal (1840). In addition to the statute, the Sejm constitutions, the resolutions of the Permanent Council and customary law remained in force. Yet Russian legislation began to influence Polish-Lithuanian law and slowly transformed it. To research this phenomenon, it is important to analyse the ukases issued for the“Polish governorates”. The printed sources include numerous materials of this kind. However, it would be desirable to pay more attention to lower-order acts, which are close to the practice of governing. It would be necessary to find and publish regulations and instructions of the High Courts and the ukases of the provincial governments (and even extracts from the minutes of their sessions). As a prelude to these activities, ukases, governors’ ordinances, resolutions, orders and instructions published in the governorate journals could be reprinted. From Kurier Litewski [The Lithuanian Courier], one could draw Polish translations of the Tsar’s and the Senate’s ukases, manifestos, governor’s decrees, notices of tax chambers, ministers’ recommendations, announcements of governorate marshals and courts. It could be useful to issue in print manuscript legal compendiums, which illustrate the practical application of the provisions of the statute, and other sources – both domestic and Russian. The Western Code, published in print a long time ago, as well as the codification project for the Belostok (Białystok) Oblast from 1811, issued a few years ago, offer great potential for research on the law of the “Polish governorates”. A digitalization of selected court records would also be very useful.
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