Ród Prusów w Łęczyckiem, Sieradzkiem i Sandomierskiem do XVI wieku. Rozsiedlenie – majątki – kariery

Author(s): Łukasz Ćwikła / Language(s): Polish

The monograph is a part of the research trend concerning the society of Central Poland in the Middle Ages. It describes the history of the noble family of Prus coat of arms with particular emphasis on its political, economic and property role until 16th century. The title matter under considerationin cludes two important historical lands. They were initially duke’s provinces. Then (from 14th to 18th century) they were the autonomous Łęczyca and Sieradz voivodeships. The research includes the part of Sandomierz voivodeship (Opoczno county), where the estate of Prus family was located. It is important to emphasize it is not a typical genealogical monograph. It does not present biographies of Prus family’s members, but it concentrates on different aspects of their activity in a problematical order. The monograph includes the topic of settlement and estates of Prus family in Central Poland. Its analysis was made on the basis on the manuscripts, especially Łęczyca, Sieradz and Brzeziny land books. The book contains the maps which present the settlement and estate of the family on the territory mentioned above. The monograph provide us with the information about political and ecclesial careers of the family members. The Author described their political participation not only in local context, but nationwide also. The economic activity is an important part of the book. It concerns the lease of royal estates, ecclesial estates and founding activity. It enabled to evaluate the role of Prus family in Łęczyca and Sieradz voivodeships. The Author analysed the symptoms of neighbourly and family relations on the basis of available historical sources. They concerned protection of financial foundations of the family members, support in political and ecclesial careers and neighbourly relations, including border disputes, debt enforcement, conflicts, criminal cases. At the end the monograph contains the summary of the Author’s research goals. The estate potential of family members was estimated in comparison to the whole nobility estate in Central Poland. The conclusions are presented on the estate map and bar diagram. In that part of the book the Author mentioned the phenomenon of Prus family expansion to the East in 15th–17th century, trying to answer what was the factor determining it. The monograph includes annexes which additionally illustrate content of the main part of the book. Firstly, they present the genealogical tables of particular noble families being the part of Prus family. Secondly, the iconographical documentation of all Prus coat of arms in 14th–20th century. It was divided into some thematic parts: epitaphs, tombstones, painting and others. The annexes include the illustration of temples and manor of Wspinek family from Będków foundation. The monograph presents detailed panorama of large-scale activity of Prus family in Central Poland in the Middle Ages. It makes complete the historiographical gap concerning the history of that family in Łęczyca, Sieradz and Sandomierz voivodeships.

Droga do Rosji. Spór o imperium carów (1761-1839)

Author(s): Remigiusz Forycki / Language(s): Polish

A synthetic study of the issues of Russia’s identity, defining the place of its culture and civilization in Europe at the turn of the 18th and 19th century, and the perception of this country in Western eyes. A unique panorama of the “empire of the tsars” emerges from travel accounts, reports, correspondence, as well as literary and artistic works of the members of the intellectual elites of Western Europe visiting Russia.

Czy książki wywołują rewolucje? Szkice z historii książki, lektury i kultury piśmiennej

Author(s): Roger Chartier / Language(s): Polish

A selection of texts by Roger Chartier, a French historian, dedicated to the history of books and reading. The dissertations concern the changes in writing culture and its contemporary adaptations. In addition, the publication contains Chartier's reflections on reading processes in the era of electronic texts, as well as the social impact of the book.

Miejsca sporu. Księga dedykowana profesorowi Pawłowi Śpiewakowi

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The book dedicated to Professor Śpiewak contains texts of sociologists, philosophers and economists, who are his friends, associates and students. It combines reminiscence and scientific aspects, collecting articles referring to the main areas of Paweł Śpiewak’s interests: social memory and its political aspects, the idea and practice of the welfare state, the important questions of classical philosophy of politics, the sociology of the middle class and the situation of Poland between the influences of Western and Eastern Europe. The title “Matters of Dispute” underlines the fact that the book contains texts on complex issues, which cannot be definitely settled.

Camões i smak sardynek. Polskie dziewiętnastowieczne relacje z podróży do Portugalii

Author(s): Magdalena Bąk / Language(s): Polish

The aim of this book is to analyse the Polish 19th century accounts of journeys to Portugal. Though it was certainly not the most popular destination for Polish travellers, there are several interesting relations that present Portuguese phenomena to the Polish readers. The following – mostly forgotten – books are recalled here: Two years in Spain and Portugal during the civil war 1838–1840 by Karol Dembowski, Memories of the journey through Denmark, Norway, England, Portugal, Spain and Morocco by Teodor Tripplin, fragments of Władysław Mickiewicz’s Memoirs, Adolf Pawiński’s Portugal. Letters from the journey and the Portuguese part of the book How to travel at little cost? Iberian voyages by Wincenty Lutosławski. The last chapter of the book is dedicated to Stefan Szolc‑ Rogoziński’s Sailing along the cost of West Africa, and in particular the part concerning Madeira. The analyses presented in the book aim at revealing different strategies of perceiving and describing Portuguese phenomena by Polish 19th century travellers. It also enables the author to highlight some common elements observed in all analysed texts – they reveal specifically the attitude of the writers, determined by their Polish culture. Such elements become evident when analysed in comparison with the accounts written by representatives of other European nations (especially the English, whose reports of journeys to Portugal seem to be the most significant in the 19th century).

Krzyż i karabela. Polityka zagraniczna Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów w ocenie dyplomacji papieskiej w latach 1623–1635

Author(s): Paweł Duda / Language(s): Polish

This work presents issues relating to a dramatic fragment of European history and a tumultuous period in the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the light of the accounts and assessments of papal nuncios residing at European courts.The author’s primary aim was to answer the question: how did the Holy See during the first phase of the pontificate of Urban VIII assess the foreign policy of the Commonwealth and to what extent did it try to influence it? In his work, main directions of Polish policy during this period and the papacy’s attitude toward them were analyzed. The Roman Curia’s stance on the Commonwealth’s relations with neighbors, including Turkey, Moscow, and Sweden, was discussed. The papacy’s stand on the issues relating to Poland’s potential participation in the Thirty Years’ War and on Vasa-Habsburg military plans was examined. Moreover, Rome’s attitude toward issues which pertained to domestic policy, albeit they determined the position of the Polish-Lithuanian state in Europe of that time – the 1632 election and Władysław IV Vasa’s marital plans – was presented.The above-mentioned issues were the subject of mutual diplomatic relations, which usually took the form of correspondence of nuncios to Poland and other European courts with the Holy See’s Secretariat of State.This work is part of an important trend in Polish historical research in which foreign source materials have been used to explore the history of the Commonwealth. The main source material for this study is the correspondence of apostolic nuncios gathered in Archivio Segreto Vaticano and Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana. The correspondence of papal nuncios to Poland between 1623 and 1635 – Giovanni Battista Lancellotti, Antonio Santacroce, Honoratio Visconti, and partially Mario Filonardi, as well as letters from Secretary of State Francesco Barberini to these nuncios are of particular importance to the topic of research. Moreover, telegrams from papal diplomats residing at the most important courts of modern Europe: in Vienna, Paris, and Madrid, concerning the international situation of the Commonwealth, are valuable supplementary material.Offering an insight into analyses and actions undertaken by papal diplomacy toward the Commonwealth, the book simultaneously shows the Polish-Lithuanian state as a significant part of European political reality.

Komárom emlékjelei az államfordulatok és rendszerváltások tükrében

Author(s): Ilona, L. Juhász / Language(s): Hungarian

This book introduces memorials erected from the beginning to the present in the Slovakian part of Komárom (Komárno), situated on the left side of the Danube river. As the town changed hands several times during the 20th century, various political turns and ideological changes also affected memorials, in the sense that, upon the turns, new monuments were put up, the ones erected in the previous era were removed, and those removed were re-established again. The currently existing memorials are located in different places, some in a public space, some in a closed place (yard, garden, various buildings, etc.). In addition to the objects we can find in the town today, the book enumerates those that no longer exist or those having been planned but never completed. The memorials related to Judaism are discussed in a separate chapter. The volume includes a repository of memorials, as well as a rich appendix of newspaper articles related to some of the objects, occasionally showing the process of their establishment from idea to realization, and, many times, their removal and restoration. The appendix also contains ceremonial speeches given during inaugurations of the memorials and later commemorations of events they are linked to. These speeches reflect political turns and ideological changes the most. Many important events and constitutional changes related to the town can be traced through the history of memorials inaugurated in Komárom. Through their story, it is possible to recall the history of the town, as well as the decisive events concerning the fate of the Hungarians in Slovakia. The second volume of the book is currently under preparation, it will contain a repository of the memorials in the Hungarian (southern) part of Komárom, situated on the right bank of the Danube. The theoretical section will concern both volumes, and it will also include an analysis of the rites, celebrations, speeches, occasional poems, etc. related to each object.

Pożary w miastach Rzeczypospolitej w XVI-XVIII wieku i ich następstwa ekonomiczne, społeczne i kulturowe. Katalog

Author(s): Andrzej Karpiński / Language(s): Polish

The presented catalogue is the first attempt in Polish historiography to collect complete information concerning fires of cities and towns in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th to 18th centuries. It includes data on nearly five thousand fires, two thousand of which are described in more detail.

Court, nobles and festivals. Studies on the Early Modern visual culture

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Public festivities, related strictly to the feudal political system, were a manifestation of power and wealth, of both the monarchs and the noblemen. To add splendor to ceremonial entrances of kings, weddings, or funerals of high-ranking persons, magnificent decorations had been prepared, often by eminent artists. Due to their ephemeral nature, only a few of them remained until the present time, yet thanks to detailed accounts and iconographic sources, such as designs and graphic renditions, their forms and complex ideological content may be the subject of scientific research.The book you have in your hands focuses on the issue of artistic setting of court ceremonies in the modern era, and are the result of cooperation between historians of art from the Jaume I University in Castellón de la Plana, the University of Valencia, Spain, and the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, which was established in 2016. The Spanish contributors belong to the group having the name ”Iconografía e Historia del Arte”, which have been conducting research on court culture and sponsoring of art for over twenty years. The initiative of publishing a joint monograph, undertaken by the Institute of Arts Studies of the University of Silesia, is a sign of ever increasing interest of Polish scientists in the issues referred to above. The book is devoted to selected aspects of the royal and noble visual culture, strongly related to the image of power. The first chapter, The festival books and the Habsburg empire: power and performance, by Víctor Mínguez, deals with the relevance of literary and visual sources as a testimony of the Habsburg court´s celebrations and explains their process of evolution in the 16th and 17th century. (part of the introduction)

Nowy realizm w rosyjskim polu literackim po 1991 roku. Literatura i polityka

Author(s): Katarzyna Roman-Rawska / Language(s): Polish

The book focuses on "new realism": one of the latest trends in the Russian literary field after 1991, created in opposition to postmodernism. The specificity of "new realism" can be best recognized by using the criterion of politicalness. The Author analyses literary production of three classic "new realists": Zakhar Prilepin, Roman Senchin and Sergey Shagrunov and shows the development of the Russian literary field against the background of key processes that took place simultaneously in the field of political power. She draws theoretical inspirations from literary studies and sociology of literature, making the book a rich and multidimensional study of Russian literary life after the fall of the USSR.

Petru Maior și prietenii. Lucrările Simpozionului Național desfășurat la Reghin în perioada 28 februarie - 1 martie 2014

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian

The papers assembled in this volume add much to our understanding of the Enlightenment in Transylvania in general and, in particular, enrich our appreciation of the role of Petru Maior in it. They show him as a priest and an intellectual engaged in the pressing issues of the day and committed to improving the status of the Romanians as a nation and, at another level, as a series of small communities, villages, that were confronting the problems of everyday life and the ultimate questions of human existence. The authors place Maior and his colleagues and the Transylvanian Enlightenment in a broad context, limited neither by chronology nor by geography.

Petru Maior și prietenii. Lucrările Simpozionului Național desfășurat la Reghin în perioada 2-3 septembrie 2016

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian

The papers assembled in this volume add much to our understanding of the Enlightenment in Transylvania in general and, in particular, enrich our appreciation of the role of Petru Maior in it. They show him as a priest and an intellectual engaged in the pressing issues of the day and committed to improving the status of the Romanians as a nation and, at another level, as a series of small communities, villages, that were confronting the problems of everyday life and the ultimate questions of human existence. The authors place Maior and his colleagues and the Transylvanian Enlightenment in a broad context, limited neither by chronology nor by geography.

Sport w Polsce międzywojennej. Działalność oświatowa stowarzyszeń sportowych w Łodzi

Author(s): Piotr Kędzia / Language(s): Polish

In that book were described law, political and economic conditions of functioning of the sports associations in Poland, in particular in Lodz. However, the most important part of the dissertation are the educational contexts of the Polish sport organizations in the city of Lodz. There is no studies in this research subject so far. Many researchers ignored the beyond sports activities of the Polish sports clubs, to concentrated only sports facts. The dissertation can be an important point of reference in this specific of subject matter.

Oryginalność czy wtórność? Studia poświęcone polskiej kulturze politycznej i religijnej (X-XIII wiek)

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech,Polish

The authors of the articles aim to examine to what extent Polish culture in 10th-13th century was original or secondary. In Poland, some elements of Catholic spirituality – formed outside its borders – settled in faster or more slowly, some carried more weight than in the West, some were omitted. It did happen, however, that some processes taking place in Catholic church originated in Poland.

"Akaratunk ellenére..." -Dokumentumok a csehszlovákiai magyarság történetéből 1918-1992

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

In the year 2020, the Hungarian nation throughout the world commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Trianon. As a result of the diktat designed with reference to the right of nations to self-determination, but at the same time defying this principle, not only the borders of Hungary were changed, but—against their will—one third of the Hungarian nation was driven into minority position, including the Hungarian population of Upper Hungary. The Treaty of Trianon, signed on 4th June 1920, thus provided a decisive contribution to the birth of the Hungarian minority community in the former Czechoslovakia, the present Slovakia.To date, no comprehensive monograph or collection of documents on the history of the Hungarian nation´s segment falling under Czechoslovakia has been published. This prompted the Forum Minority Research Institute to gather and present to readers in one volume the most important sources on the history of the Hungarian minority community now living in southern Slovakia, from the founding of the Czechoslovak state in 1918 until its dissolution in 1992.The size constraints did not, of course, allow the publication of all the documents considered important, so documents consisting of only a few lines on the one hand and the too voluminous ones on the other hand were left out of the volume. The published documents were selected in such a way that they provide a comprehensive picture of the history of the Hungarian minority community and present the most important issues of its seventy-five years existence within the Czechoslovak state. Some of the omitted documents are presented in the form of illustrations.The vast majority of the documents included in the collection come from the archives of Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary, and partly from the contemporary Hungarian press in Czechoslovakia. Some of them have already been published in various collections of documents, but there are some among them which have been unknown not only to a wider readership, but also to historians. Most of the documents come from the most dramatic and hectic periods in the history of the Hungarian minority, i.e. the years following the formation of the Czechoslovak state, the period of the first Vienna Award, the years of post-World War II disenfranchisement, the Prague Spring and the regime change.The volume consists of five chapters, adapted to the general historical eras of Czechoslovakia. The first chapter contains documents on the First Republic, the second on the Slovak autonomy and the Slovak State, the third on the years after the Second World War, the fourth on the decades of the communist dictatorship, and the fifth on the years between the regime change and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Each document is preceded by the place and time of its origin, followed by a brief introduction to interpret and place the document in historical context. The documents are followed by references indicating their current location. At the end of the collection, there is a selected bibliography containing the most important pieces of academic literature on the history of Hungarians in Czechoslovakia.

Teksty doświadczenia. Tom 1

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

A collection of texts on issues relevant to the construction of the map of modernisms in Central and Eastern Europe in the years 1867–1918, discussing identity transformations, shaping ideological currents in the region and the search for the concept of nationality and European community, the renewal of spirituality, redefinition of corporeality in the cultural space, and the impact of Freudism. Excellent analytical texts by researchers of this period, enriched with valuable indexes, are a rich source of knowledge for literary scholars, cultural scientists, sociologists, ethnologists, as well as literary and film critics interested in the so far poorly described subject of modernism in this region. The 3-volume publication is the result of a research project carried out under the National Program for the Development of Humanities. The authors propose to recognize the literature of Central and Eastern Europe in the years 1867–1918 as a whole, using a category important for cultural research, which today assigns special importance to the phenomenon of place. Reflecting on the literature on modernism in Central and Eastern Europe, the authors of the project want to show how the writers and critics reacted to the challenges of their time and how the dynamics of their explorations was shaped. The choice of the time frame 1867–1918 is related to this. Both dates are connected with the most important political events for modern Central and Eastern Europe. This is the time of the birth of nationalisms, but also of the emergence of utopias that cross the borders of national particularisms. The perspective proposed in the publication (and its tools) are not theoretical - the authors are less interested in defining modernism as a theoretical construct than in dealing with the living matter of local responses to the experiences and artistic impulses of modernity. Their main desire was to bring local stories together with the mainstream of modernist narrative: about change and breakup, about the chaos of life, about the search for subjectivity, about the fight against the dictates of oppressive forms of culture and language, about the construction of identity in the individual and collective dimensions.

Wspólnota pytań. Antologia. Tom 3

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

A collection of translations of literary texts of the modernist period in Central and Eastern Europe, illustrating various dimensions of shaping the modernity of the region and various aspects of forming the identity of the literary hero of that period. The volume fills the research gap related to the lack of publications on the problems of Central and Eastern European modernism in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The translations were provided with notes about the authors and indexes. The 3-volume publication is the result of a research project carried out under the National Program for the Development of the Humanities. The authors propose to identify the literature of Central and Eastern Europe in the years 1867–1918 as a whole, using a category important for cultural research, which today assigns special importance to the phenomenon of place. Reflecting on the literature of modernism in Central and Eastern Europe, the authors of the project want to show how writers and critics responded to the challenges of their time and how the dynamics of their explorations was shaped. Related to this is the choice of the time frame 1867-1918. Both dates are related to the most important political events for modern Central and Eastern Europe. This is the time of the birth of nationalisms, but also of the emergence of utopias that cross the borders of national particularisms. The perspective proposed in the publication (and its tools) are not theoretical - the authors are less interested in defining modernism as a theoretical construct than in dealing with the living matter of local responses to the experiences and artistic impulses of modernity. Their main desire was to bring local stories together with the mainstream modernist narrative: about change and breakup, about the chaos of life, about the search for subjectivity, about the fight against the dictates of oppressive forms of culture and language, about the construction of identity in the individual and collective dimensions.

Przetrwały 200 lat. Myśl i dzieło bł. Edmunda Bojanowskiego w perspektywie XXI wieku

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The book is devoted to the pioneering pedagogical activity of blessed Edmund Bojanowski, social activist, poet, folklorist, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary and organizer of the first kindergartens for the village children in Europe. The publication also shows the activity of the congregation during WW II and in the difficult years of communism in Poland. It also presents some aspects of the functioning of the kindergartens run nowadays in accordance with the principles formulated by Bojanowski.

Selected Papers. Belgrade women's studies journal: Anniversary issue 1992/2002

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Refugee Crisis in International Policy - Volume I Legal and Social Statuses of Refugees

Author(s): / Language(s): English

This six-volume book series titled “Refugee Crisis in International Politics” are prepared with the aim of clarifying the above-mentioned issues and enriching the content, context, and depth to the field of science. “States must protect all migrants against violence based on racism and xenophobia, exploitation, and forced labor. Migrants should not be detained without legitimate reasons or forcefully send back to their home country. States must take responsibility for and fulfill these responsibilities meticulously for refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants to be able to rebuild their lives safely against serious dangers. Sharing responsibility for global problems is fair in the 21st century”.