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Spisi koji su pred nama predstavljaju primjer crkvene birokratske „literature“– strogo formaliziran niz pitanja koja je vatikanska administracija postavljala svojim službenicima, te odgovori koji su na njih dobiveni. Međutim, osim suhih podataka o kanoničkim karijerama i ustroju kaptola, ovi nam dokumenti otvaraju prozor u mnoge segmente života onodobnoga Senja: vjerski, kulturni, intelektualni, trgovački, pa i onaj koji bismo nazvali zabavnim – i po tome su specifični u odnosu na većinu preostalih spisa iz korpusa koji nazivamo kanonskim vizitacijama.
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A university without its own publishing house is like a cathedral without an organ: wild-growing and silent. Masaryk University has got its publishing house, which even ranks among the largest in Central Europe by the number of publications, tirelessly spreading university knowledge and ethos not only through books, but on all present-day conceivable media. This jubilee publication brings a colourful panorama of the Munipress publishing house activities together with a historical overview. It is dedicated to the centenary of the Masaryk University and to all the silenced authors in its history.
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The book collection Masterpieces of Polish Literature and Film presents important works of Polish literature and their film adaptations, which are distinguished by a high artistic level and are among the classics of Polish cinematography. Each book in the collection consists of literary chapters contributed by Lidija Rezoničnik and chapters written by Seweryn Kuśmierczyk that contain analyses and interpretations of films based on literary works. The literary works are presented in a broader literary and cultural context. This context is also taken into account in the film analyses and interpretations, which are based on the method of anthropological-morphological analysis of the film work. The first book is dedicated to the novel "Pharaoh" by Bolesław Prus (Faraon, 1895) and the film "Pharaoh" by Jerzy Kawalerowicz (Faraon, 1965), the drama "The Wedding" by Stanisław Wyspiański (Wesele, 1901) and the film "The Wedding" by Andrzej Wajda (Wesele, 1972), and the novel "Mother Joan of the Angels" by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (Matka Joanna od Aniołów, 1946) and Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s film "Mother Joan of the Angels" (Matka Joanna od Aniołów, 1960).
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The publication contains articles on organizing and functioning of archive networks in selected European countries, i.e. in Poland, Spain, Liechtenstein, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The authors discuss the factors shaping archive networks and their relations with social needs, asking questions about the incentives which facilitate the organization of stable and effective archive networks, the possibility of its modification, or the importance of digital technologies in sharing archival resources.
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Fr. Stanisław Konarski (1700–1773), Piarist, was one of the most outstanding figures in Polish intellectual life in the 18th century. His last book O religii poczciwych ludzi [On the Religion of Honest Men] (1769) was read with great interest for over two hundred years – first by its contemporary readers, then by historians of ideas and researchers of the Polish Enlightenment. In both cases, the book did not cease to attract attention due to the atmosphere of the scandal, which at the end of the Konarski’s life had reached wide circles – from the Warsaw nunciature to the Congregation of the Holy Office in Rome. The basic facts related to the trial, which took place in the Roman curia, were known to Polish historiography, but thus far only superficially. Hitherto unknown documents from the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (former Holy Office) allow for the accurate reconstruction of the turbulent history of a book which in fact risked being including in the Index of Forbidden Books, even though it was written in defence of Christianity against 18th-century deism.
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Opracowanie jest zbiorem artykułów dotyczących szeroko rozumianej historii w czasach rzymskich. W publikacji poruszono rozmaite kwestie historii politycznej, religijnej, zagadnień propagandy, a także numizmatyki owego okresu.Praca skierowana jest do historyków, archeologów, numizmatyków, filologów klasycznych, religioznawców, historyków sztuki, orientalistów.
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An intimate look at the life of Professor Andrzej Koźmiński and at the same time a portrait of a family of Professors hailing from the Warsaw intelligentsia, whose roots trace back to the Eastern Frontier of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. We get to know a scholar of an international, cosmopolitan orientation, a university teacher representing a positivist work ethic and Enlightenment-derived criticism, a leader fascinated by new technologies, a sensitive poet and an art collector. His biography abounds in stories of success but also failure as well as of the obstacles he had to overcome on his way to realizing the dream about his own university, a business school meeting European standards.
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The book is a result of the ambitious project of the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences related to the collection and publication of a bibliography in the field of the Cyrillo-Methodian studies. The book consists of two parts. The first includes a phototype edition of the "Cyrillo-Methodian Bibliography for 1934-1940" prepared by M. Popruzhenko and St. Romanski (Sofia,1942), which contains 878 titles of books and articles, as well as 324 reviews. The second part of the book, prepared by V. Zhelyazkova and N. Zafirova, presents 3121 titles of Bulgarian Cyrillo-Methodian publications - monographs, articles, reviews, textbooks, notes, official messages and many other materials, the period covered extending up to 1944. Most of the material is extracted from the Bulgarian periodical press of that time.
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Within several dozen years, a society with extreme social contrasts emerged in Lodz, in which the ethnically foreign (German and Jewish) bourgeoisie played the leading role. Two strata dominated in the city, the aforementioned bourgeoisie and the workers. Somewhere on the fringes of society there were still a limited number of intelligentsia. The middle class, which included petty industrialists, civil servants and representatives of the so-called liberal professions such as doctors, teachers, journalists, lawyers and writers, also existed to a small extent. But Lodz needed such people who would have been an important carrier of social development and a stabilizing force. This group includes people who care about the spiritual and moral development of society. Their role is based on upholding culture, tradition and beliefs and instilling ethical values. Łódź society growing up under the conditions of capitalism, where money was the most important value, needed special spiritual care. Because of this, the clergy played an important role in the city. They should primarily spread the faith in society and care for the salvation of the soul of the population. The Lodz clergy not only taught the faith or played the role of moral authority, they often acted as mediators, educators in the cultural sphere. They often took up pen to put their thoughts on paper. They wrote literary and journalistic texts in German or Polish and published them in local newspapers and magazines or, more rarely, in book form. Journalistic and literary writing was particularly popular with Lutheran clergy. They made it possible to develop an aesthetic feeling in a form other than just the Sunday sermon, to awaken a taste for the beautiful in art, and to lead the faithful to assimilate a set of sensual and spiritual values of the Evangelical-Augsburg faith. This anthology presents a small part of a more extensive body of writing by Evangelical-Augsburg pastors from Lodz and the surrounding area from 1839 to 1939. The main part of the volume is the collection of texts by German-speaking poet pastors, including Philipp Kreutz, Rudolf Gundlach and August Hermann Müller. The publication is an anthology with comments, i.e. a collection of texts with a detailed commentary on the history of the city and the development of Evangelical-Augsburg parishes in Lodz and the surrounding area in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The book addresses the issue of place and role in culture and 19th century everyday life of two forms: the illness diary and the painter’s sketchbook as testimonies of a phenomenon referred to as the privacy turn. Its participants included not only professional artists but also by amateurs of different status, regardless of gender and age. The book, based on hitherto unknown archive sources, shows the significance of that movement and describes some such sources (Wanda Czartoryska’s illness diary, the sketchbooks of the Branicki family, which include unknown sketches of very young Wojciech Kossak), pointing to the diversity of their forms and the transformations they underwent.
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The book presents common threads of life and work of Karol Irzykowski (1873-1944), Ladislav Klíma (1878-1928) and Géza Csáth (1883-1919) as potentially representative for modernism (and the experience of modernity) in Central European literatures and cultures in the transnational and comparative perspective. The starting point for reflection are diaries, in which the self-record becomes the matrix of innovative prose of the three authors as well as the inspiration for (autobiographically marked) critical-literary reflection on the borderline of Irzykowski’s culture theory, Klíma's anti-system philosophy and Csáth’s exploration of the limits of literature and psyche.
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The books contains an edition of 29 profiles of Polish and foreign scholars of broadly understood antiquity studies: classical philology, ancient history and classical archaeology. The documents come from the personal archive of Ryszard Gansiniec (1888-1958), one of the most versatile Polish scholars. The profiles, written mostly in the interwar period, with some coming from World War Two days and the postwar years, provide valuable information on both prominent researchers and those who due to various circumstances have not registered in our collective memory.
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The monograph is a fruit of research by representatives of a variety of academic disciplines: historians, cultural and literary studies scholars, and linguists studying Central-Eastern Europe. The polydisciplinary and multinational group of authors – scholars from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania – is united by their interest in the cultural identity of the region’s nations. The problem of the cultural history and the present of Central-Eastern Europe is presented in two perspectives: one looks at processes of shaping elements of the identity of Central-Eastern European nations, while the other offers highly-focused synchronic analyses of selected cultural phenomena.
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The second volume of texts submitted for the international conference celebrating 100 years of Japanese Studies at the University of Warsaw contains articles on the uniqueness or universality of Japanese literature, language, theatre and film. The authors examine both classical and modern examples of Japanese prose, poetry, and performative arts, debating whether the numerous ‘unique’ areas of Japanese culture have become universally recognized, and already constitute an inseparable part of our contemporary transcultural world.
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The present collection of articles is the result of the work on the project “The Cyrillo-Methodian Places of Memory in Bulgarian Culture” of the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre at the BAS. It is a contribution to the estsblishment of European cultural route "Cyril and Methodius", which is part of the virtual cluster "Cyrillomethodikon" within the framework of project No. BG05M2OP001-1.001-0001 "Establishment and development of Centre for excellence "Heritage BG". The research focus in the collection are "places of memory" in Bulgarian culture, which to become into elements of the Bulgarian part of the route.
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The book consists of two essays: “To forgive?” and “With honour and dignity.” Both deal with the issue of forgiveness for the wrongs committed by Nazi Germany during the period of the Second World War. “To forgive?” – an essay devoted to the Holocaust in which the author openly opposes the attitude of those who not only wish to forget about the crimes committed by the Nazi criminals but also more or less consciously belittle their significance. “With honour and dignity” – a polemical analysis of French society whose attitude and choices resulted in France playing the role it played during the Second World War.
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This book, which builds upon our previous volume „Rus’ Abducted? Russia’s War over the Identity of Ukraine”, offers a clear explanation of complex mechanisms of Russia’s war against the West, along with its methods used in both the virtual and physical spaces. The book also lays bare the mechanism of power in Russia, especially her constant eagerness to provoke armed conflicts and wars. This longue durée process requires a continuous renewal and adjustment of stereotypical confrontation scenarios, which results in collisions of meanings, associated as these are with the imperialist symbolic order being bent to fit the moment’s needs.
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The book presents the history of the establishment of the Pauline Order worldwide and in Poland. The importance of book culture in the spiritual and intellectual life of the Polish Paulines have been discussed. The history of the formation of the library collections of Jasna Góra and Skałeczna has been presented. The profiles of the leading incunabula printers and their professional achievements have been shown. All incunabula of both libraries have been compiled in the form of a catalogue. Descriptions have been prepared in accordance with cataloguing standards with the inclusion of provenance records, the characteristics of the bindings and the provision of bibliographic citations.
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Oblicza Wojny is a series published by the Lodz University Press since 2020, dedicated to military conflicts throughout the centuries. The ninth volume of this series is titled Tools of War. When thinking about tools used during wars, various types of weaponry and armament come to mind, and this is precisely the subject matter of the texts published in this volume. The discussions include fortifications in the Battle of Dyrrachium in 48 BCE, the armament of knights from the royal retinues of Polish kings in the second half of the 15th century, and the weaponry amassed in the arsenals of Krakow in the 17th century. Subsequent articles concern the 20th century, highlighting the use of armored trains in the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1919-1921, the fate of the Polish 1st Tank Regiment at the end of World War I, Irish guerrilla warfare in the years 1919-1921, armament production in Poland before 1939, and aircraft used during World War II. The volume also includes an article on a rarely discussed topic by historians, which is the equipment of the Polish military from 1945 to 1989. The volume concludes with an article dedicated to attempts to create an army of the League of Arab States in 21st century. The authors are professional historians, and their texts are based on thorough analysis of sources.
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