Skyscapes and Sky Events – Geography of Uncertainties in the Balkans (17th–18th centuries)

Author(s): Jelena Mrgić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

This paper presents narrative sources from the Balkans, in order to supplement and confirm the established chronology of astronomical phenomena during the 17th and 18th centuries. Leaving aside the history of physics, this reconstruction is more about social and cultural history of this region. Chroniclers, known and anonymous, either copied these records from older authors or they wrote as eyewitnesses of the sky events. The effort is made to contextualize them into their cultural and social background, detecting the connections – historical, empirical, conceptual, theoretical, symbolic, and experiential, between the natural phenomena they witnessed and described, and their living and working circumstances. Without the wide use of the printing press, the data from these manuscripts were seeded much slower than in the rest of Europe, and while the impact of the observed phenomena remains largely unknown, comparison of sentiments with the European contemporaries is possible.

“From Kragujevac to Kilimanjaro”: Imagining and re-imagining Africa and the self-perception of Yugoslavia in the travelogues from socialist Yugoslavia

Author(s): Nemanja Radonjić / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The article examines travelogues about Africa from a philosophical geography point of view, and compares them to other contemporary representations of Africa. It contextualizes the travelogues both within Yugoslavia and the tides of afro-optimism and afro-pessimism as well as numerous other Cold War phenomena. It also uses the travelogues to establish an auto-representation of Yugoslavia vis-a-vis Africa

WYWIAD Z DANIELĄ OSIŃSKĄ (PSEUDONIM „WIERNA”, 1° V. KRETOWICZ, 2° V. LUDWICKA) – CZŁONKIEM ARMII KRAJOWEJ I SIOSTRĄ KOMENDANTA SPIESZONEGO SZWADRONU AK W SZADKU

Author(s): Jarosław Stulczewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2016

Jedenasty wywiad w ramach cyklicznej rubryki „Biuletynu Szadkowskiego” to rozmowa z porucznik w stanie spoczynku Danielą Ludwicką ps. „Wierna” – członkiem podziemia niepodległościowego w czasie okupacji hitlerowskiej i siostrą Ludwika Osińskiego ps. „Orlicz”, komendanta Spieszonego Szwadronu AK w Szadku.

Notatka po zatrzymaniu w sosnowieckim areszcie

Author(s): Tadeusz Mazowiecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 667/2017

Treść notatki sporządzonej przez Tadeusza Mazowieckiego 13 stycznia 1984 r. w Katowicach, nazajutrz po zwolnieniu z aresztu w Sosnowcu.

Z dziejów polskiej ludomanii

Author(s): Andrzej Mencwel,Sebastian Duda / Language(s): Polish Issue: 667/2017

Z Andrzejem Mencwelem rozmawia Sebastian Duda

Od odwagi ratowania do odwagi pojednania?

Author(s): Grzegorz Pac / Language(s): Polish Issue: 667/2017

The review of: Sprawiedliwi zdrajcy. Sąsiedzi z Wołynia by Witold Szabłowski; Wydawnictwo Znak, Kraków 2016, 379 s.

O współczesnej aktualności Behemota

Author(s): Raul Hilberg / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2016

Gdy zwrócono się do mnie, bym omówił kwestię „aktualności Behemota”, od razu pomyślałem, że w tytule brak jednego słowa: „dzisiaj”. Szczególnie dzisiaj, gdy ponownie analizujemy reżim narodowosocjalistyczny – nie tylko w Niemczech, lecz na wszystkich kontynentach – warto zadać sobie pytanie, dlaczego Franz Neumann nie jest częściej cytowany w publikowanych obecnie książkach. To zrozumiałe w czasach, gdy ukazuje się tak wiele książek, że fundamentalne idee, od których zależy tak wiele badań i tekstów, nareszcie stają się częścią książek, bez przywoływania ich autorów. Długość jednego pokolenia – gdy mowa o ludziach – wynosi zapewne 25 lat, a przy małym przyroście naturalnym być może 30 lat, natomiast w działalności wydawniczej możemy mówić nawet o dziesięciu latach; w tym czasie pojawia się nowa generacja autorów, których książki mają nową formę i pisane są z nowego punktu widzenia. W tym sensie od wydania Behemota minęło kilka pokoleń.

Sefer Praga. Księga pamięci warszawskiej Pragi

Author(s): Adam Kopciowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2016

Wśród ksiąg pamięci, czyli wydawanych po wojnie publikacji upamiętniających unicestwione w wyniku Zagłady żydowskie społeczności Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, tom poświęcony prawobrzeżnej części Warszawy zajmuje szczególne miejsce. Jest to jedyne spośród ponad pół tysiąca tego typu wydawnictw, które nie dotyczy ujmowanego jako całość konkretnego miasta (lub miasteczka), lecz zaledwie jednej dzielnicy, wydzielonej z większego organizmu miejskiego.

When Events Like Streams Flood the Earth - Threat Discourse in the Reign of Herakleios

Author(s): Theresia Raum / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The seventh century is widely regarded as a time of epoch-making changes in the Eastern Roman Empire and some students of the period are inclined to speak of it as a time of “crisis”. But what does “crisis” entail and can this concept help to explain the social dynamics? Social theory regards the establishment of a “threat discourse” as the first step towards successful crisis management and stresses the fact that coping is only possible after such a threat discourse has become predominant. This paper considers the evidence for the development of a threat discourse in the reign of Herakleios. During the first decades of the seventh century the Roman Empire faced major threats from the outside and the inside: the attacks of the Avars and the Slavs, the war with the Sasanian Persians together with a shortage of grain supply and money, military defeat, and internal strife led to frustration among the population. Those tensions are mirrored in contemporary literary sources: the poems of Georgios Pisides; the homily on the siege of Constantinople in 626 commonly attributed to Theodoros Synkellos; the work of the historian Theophylaktos Simokates. The aim of this paper is to describe how contemporaries perceived the current threat. It is argued that specific aspects of the threat discourse created a sense of community among the population and a bond of trust between the people and the emperor. This association was finally able to concentrate all available forces to handle the crisis and save the Roman Empire.

Rewriting the 1120s: Chronology and Crisis under John II Komnenos

Author(s): Maximilian Lau / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The reign of Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has traditionally been overlooked by scholars due to an apparent lack of source material, particularly in comparison to his father and son, Alexios I and Manuel I. As such, developments from this period tend to be examined in broader bilateral studies examining Byzantine dealings with peoples such as Serbs, Hungarians, Turks and Venetians separately, or only in reference to one region, or another figure, and the same goes for Crusader and Islamic polities later in the reign. This is despite the fact that John’s reign, occurring between the First and Second Crusades, occurred at a crucial time in Eurasian history, when Western Europe and the Middle East entered a new phase of contact on account of the Crusades. Byzantium was still, arguably, the most powerful Christian nation, and examining how the formerly unquestioned hegemonic power dealt with the rising powers of the Normans, Turks, Italian maritime republics and others deserved study if these developments are to be understood at all. As such, this paper aims to expose the changes in our analysis that result from the incorporation of non-traditional source material, highlighting how John’s reign as a whole should be re-examined with this methodology. Using the years 1123–1126 as a case study, the dividends such a methodology can pay will also be shown through analysis of Byzantine foreign policy in this period, as a previously overlooked crisis occurred for John’s regime in 1126.

Sedat Veyis Örnek’in Kronolojik Biyografisi

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 82/2015

TÜBİTAK SOBAG 114K576 Numaralı Sedat Veyis Örnek Sözlü Tarih, Biyografi ve Belgelik Çalışması

Sedat Veyis Örnek’in Yayınları

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 82/2015

TÜBİTAK SOBAG 114K576 Numaralı Sedat Veyis Örnek Sözlü Tarih, Biyografi ve Belgelik Çalışması

“Yeryüzünü Gördü Sıvas’dan, Yeryüzü Onunla Gördü Sıvas’ı”: Tayfun Atay’la Söyleşi

Author(s): Meryem Bulut,Tayfun Atay / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 82/2015

Interview: Meryem Bulut talks to Tayfun Atay

Koşuya Geriden Başlamak

Author(s): Sedat Veyis Örnek / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 82/2015

Ülkemizde insanların pek çoğu koşuya geriden başlarlar. Belirli bir grup handiyse varış pistine ulaşmıştır, büyük çoğunluk daha ilk turu bitirirken… Kimileri öteki turları göze alamaz, bırakır oracıkta, zaten gücü soluğu kesilmiştir. Kimileri, eh biraz daha güçlüdür, solukludur, bir dolanım atarlar, ama ondan ötesini göğüsleyemezler. Kimileri de canlarını dişlerine takar, inatlarını birer yorgun at yapar, sonunda bitirirler yarışı. Nedir, ötekiler çoktan bitirmişlerdir, varmışlardır varacakları yere, almışlardır ödüllerini. Zaten yarışlarda sadece derece yapanlara ödül verirler, salt yarışı tamamlayanlara değil.

Мемоари Јелене Скерлић Ћоровић

Author(s): Dunja S. Dušanić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 6/2016

Живот међу људима. Мемоарски записи / Јелена Скерлић Ћоровић [приредила Зорица Хаџић]. – 1. изд. – Нови Сад: Академска књига, 2014. – 275 стр. – ISBN 978-86- 6263-046-9

Les vins comparés au Tokai en France au 19e siècle

Author(s): Imre Papp / Language(s): French Issue: 01+02/2016

Within the present study the author provided a comparative analysis between the Tokaji and French wines, offering various technical and historical data. Some pieces of information are more than interesting, showing the celebrity that the Tokaji wine reached during the 19th century not only Europe, but also North America, where Thomas Jefferson unsuccessfully tried to acclimatize the Tokaji furmint.

Jugonostalgija u savremenom TV programu: Narativi u emisiji „Šou svih vremena“

Author(s): Ognjen Radović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 33/2015

After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Yugo-nostalgia is present in the television content primarily in entertainment and informative content (series, movies and news). One of the newest examples of invoking the past and metanarratives connected to Yugoslavia is the variety show “The show of all times” that was aired on RTS (Radio Television of Serbia) and on the other televisions in the region. The paper tries to define the role of nostalgia and narrators and how it is represented the time of Yugoslavia. Second and third level narrators (all except the all-seeing author) are defined as catalysts of Yugo-nostalgia, as those who represent the link between the audience and the time of brotherhood and unity, as moderators (hosts) and as authors-creators of all the narratives in the show and its’ parts (all-seeing authors and the host Nikola Kojo). In fact, they have been used for the purpose of resuscitation and rehabilitation of the narratives of the former Yugoslavia in the present through collective nostalgia. The elements of the metanarrative about former Yugoslavia used in the show are – the free country, a country of brotherhood and unity, the golden age, the time of peace and security, the time of real moral values, the age of innocence, the good old days and the land of plenty. All these elements are describing past time through the spectacle (songs, dance and quiz), humor (sketches, interviews and quiz) and the collective memories of life and popular culture of the former Yugoslavia, positively interpreted and re-positioned the then relations and values.

Klasni karakter društvene uloge KPJ u ratu i revoluciji

Author(s): Radoš Lj. Smiljković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 267/1981

Dubina socijalne revolucije u uslovima složenog narodnooslobodilačkog rata, u periiodu 1941—1945. godine, aktuelizira i posle četrdeset godina bitna pitanja društvene uloge KPJ, osnovnih oblika i formi njenog delovanja. Izvedena je po svojoj klasnoj suštinii socijalistička revolucija u izuzetno složenim uslovima nacionalnooslobodilačkog rata, pod okolnostiima oštre suprotstavljenosti patriotskih ii okupatorskih snaga, -izdašno pomaganih brojnim kvislinzima. To su, istovremeno, bili i uslovi kada vojno organizovanli nacionalizmi naroda Jugoslavije guraju čitave narodne grupe u bratoubilački rat, nastojeći da iiz toga, kroz spregu s okupatoriima i drugim klasno-buržoaskim snagama u svetu, izvuku što je moguće veće profite na račun vlastitih naroda. Neke crkvene organizacije, zaslepljene mržnjom prema drugim narodima i komunizmu, do kraja su zloupotrebile religiozno raspoloženje u funkciji uništavanja drugih bratskih naroda.

Wizytacje kanoniczne jako źródło historyczne

Author(s): Artur Paweł Hamryszczak / Language(s): English Issue: 105/2016

Dwa dokumenty w sprawie dziesięcin ze wsi Boby dla kościoła parafialnego w Opolu

Author(s): Anna Łosowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 105/2016

In the Middle Ages, tithes and tributes were, among others, the sources of the emoluments of the church benefices. Basically all the parishes had the right to collect those fees, therefore among the cases usually investigated by the church courts were disputes over tithes. One example of such a dispute was Michał’s complaint (a priest of the parish church in Opole) against Świętosław, an heir to the village of Boby. The sentence which was passed by the official of Sandomierz Mikołaj in 1413 and prepared in the form of a notarial instrument by a public notary Wit from Przełęk in the presence of Andrzej from Sandomierz-a public notary in the consistory of Sandomierz is now stored in the parish archive in Opole Lubelskie.In the document dated 4 July 1413, Mikołaj from Jeżyn, the rector of the Hospital of St. Spirit and the official of Sandomierz, ordered Świętosław, under the penalty of excommunication, to pay the outstanding sum of 14 grzywnas, additional compensation of 10 grzywnas and to give the priest from Opole a tithe of two grzywnas each year. The official’s sentence was also imposed on Świętosław’s successors. It is said that the complaint was made because Świętosław, an heir to the village of Boby, unfairly collected a predial tithe from peasants’ fields, which belonged to the church and the parish priest in Opole.Although the official’s sentence was to be the final one, it did not solve the problem of tithes from the village of Boby. The complaints of the consecutive priests of Opole made before an official court in the 17th century show that the dispute over tithes became an inherent part of the history of the two neighbouring parishes.Mikołaj’s sentence, which was published, means that the document is not the privilege of establishing a tithe from the village of Boby for the church in Opole, but an official’s sentence in the case of its non-payment. It identifies a previously unknown owner of the village of Boby and establishes earlier, than previously thought, foundation of the church in the village.