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A synthesis of the information on the most important events, figures, dogmatic tendencies in the Church of late antiquity. It reveals the backstage of historical research, indicating examples of scholarly disputes and debates concerning sensitive topics from the history of the ancient Church. It helps to understand elements of Christian reflection on its own past.
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The book belongs to the essayistic part of Andrzej Gronczewski’s work. It combines two perspectives: the essayistic outlook with a melancholy reflection on human existence and the history of culture, and most importantly on the form which both acquire through the passing of time. It is an original artistic work, a sort of an intellectual diary, a monologue of a literature scholar and an art Connoisseur.
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[Tytuł oryginału: Pisarze z NRD wobec przełomowych wydarzeń w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej]Przekład z języka polskiego: Reinhold UtriIn der vorliegenden Untersuchung werden Reaktionen ostdeutscher Intellektuellenkreise auf umwälzende politische Ereignisse in Mittel- und Osteuropa dargestellt, und zwar auf den Polnischen Oktober und den Ungarn-Aufstand 1956, den Prager Frühling 1968 sowie auf die Streiks in Polen und die Aktivitäten der Solidarność Anfang der 80er Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts. Alle diese oft blutigen Ereignisse erzeugten ein breites Echo in ganz Europa und lösten eine Welle von Reaktionen in der öffentlichen Meinung aus, darunter auch Stellungnahmen von Intellektuellen. Wichtig ist dabei nicht in erster Linie die Schilderung der aus zahlreichen Publikationen bereits bekannten historischen Ereignisverläufe, wenngleich diese jeweils kurz skizziert werden, sondern vor allem die Darstellung deren „Wirkungskraft“ auf die Diskurse ihrer Zeit. Es geht also vor allem um die Reaktionen, die diesen Ereignissen folgten, und zwar in Künstler- und Intellektuellenkreisen in der DDR, hauptsächlich unter Schriftstellern, sowie deren Einfluss auf die weitere Politik der Regierung und in Folge auf die Gesellschaften aller besprochenen Länder. Magdalena LatkowskaMagdalena Latkowska, Dr. habil., Germanistin, forscht und lehrt im Bereich Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Warschau. Studium in Warschau, Tübingen und Berlin. Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen: Günter Grass und die Politik (2008); Habilitationsschrift: »Pedagodzy socjalizmu« czy »wrogowie klasowi«? Pisarze z NRD wobec powstania czerwcowego 1953 oraz budowy i upadku muru berlińskiego 1961–1989 (2016). Deutsche Fassung: »Sozialismus-Pädagogen« oder »Klassenfeinde«? Die Haltung der DDR-Schriftsteller zum Aufstand des 17. Juni sowie zum Mauerbau und Mauerfall – in Vorbereitung. Forschungsschwerpunkte: deutsche Literatur und Geschichte des 20. und 21. Jh., Verbindungen zwischen Literatur und Politik in der BRD und der DDR, Erinnerungskultur.
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A collection of studies devoted to the presence of Korean women in the social life of different epochs, in history, culture and literature, the beginnings of the feminist movement in many areas of literary and artistic work, as well as the representations of famous Korean women, the heroines of mass imagination. The first volume in the new series Coreana Varsoviensia.
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A volume devoted to the history of the Warsaw School of Economics, operating in the years 1862–1869. It contains valuable information on the organization of the university, its curricula, outstanding lecturers associated with it, the place of this institution in Polish historiography, as well as texts devoted to the image of the Main School in the eyes of its students and the society of that time. The publication was created at the Institute of Polish Literature of the Faculty of Polish Studies of the University of Warsaw in cooperation with scientists from eight Polish academic and research centers. We assumed that although the position of the Main School in the collective biography of positivists and their peers is well known, it is still worth asking about the individual experiences of both its students and lecturers, about the intergenerational ties formed at the university, as well as about various communication practices, thanks to with which its reputation was consolidated - on an ongoing basis and after many years. First of all, we wanted a new reading of various literary evidence, which would allow us to reconstruct the circulation of intellectual exchange, the transmission of knowledge, ideas and experiences between successive generations of the Polish intelligentsia […]. We were interested in various types of texts [...] that documented the achievements of the university, shaped its cultural image and co-created its history and legend. We wanted to point out the multitude of discourses and different narratives about the Main School(From the text From the editors. Influence circles, lists of questions).
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The texts included in the book refer to the earliest history of Korean culinary culture, the symbolism of rice and its ritualization, the role of tea and alcoholic drinks in everyday culture, they also explore feast threads in poetry and historical and contemporary culinary traditions.
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Clearly, wherever myth forms part of an educational syllabus, value judgements have been made by those who chose the texts, with regard to content, approach, usage, emphases, purpose and many other elements. [...] the present volume examines the reception of such myth within formal education in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries […]. It focuses for the most part on school education, but with forays into post-high school where relevant, and includes a wide geographical and chronological range. With regard to the latter limitations, the general emphasis is on modern day, and the current situation, but as a result of individual historical circumstances in each example (Lisa Maurice, Editor of the Volume). This is a task of paramount importance, as educational processes have a lasting influence on us – all the more so as we are exposed to them already in childhood, when the capacity for critical thinking is being formed by none other than school curricula shaped and developed in specific circumstances. This volume makes us aware of these complex processes, their implications, and the opportunities they create for the future of Classical Antiquity (Katarzyna Marciniak, Editor of the Series).
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The book explores the problem of economic emigration from Poland to Latvia and Estonia in the interwar period. The author discusses the issue from many aspects, looking at it from the perspective of political, economic, social, demographic and national processes which took place in Central-Eastern Europe.
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The monograph shows the history of the Dahlak Archipelago, located in the Red Sea, near Eritrea. On the basis of written sources (Greek, Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, Ethiopian, Turkish and Portuguese) and the research conducted at the Dahlak Kebir archeological site (including Arabic funerary inscriptions from the island), the author analyses political and economic nature of Dahlak between the 7 th and 16th century.
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In this book the author interpretates the meaning of the duty of faithfulness to the Commonwealth of Poland described in the article 82 of the Constitution of Poland. Contesting to date findings of the doctrine of the Polish constitutional law on the meaning of this duty, the author is reaching to the Polish constitutional tradition, analysing consecutive Polish constitutions in order to find whether the duty of faithfulness was described in their text and to determine the interpretation of this duty by legal doctrine of that time. Moreover the author in his deliberations is making use of records of sessions of the Constitutional Commission of the National Assembly which was working on the project of the Constitution of Poland in years 1992–1997. The author is referring to the work of this Commission with purpose to determine how the duty of faithfulness to the Commonwealth of Poland as well as terms “the nation” and “the commonwealth” were then understood. Conclusions summarize the findings and establish the interpretation of the duty of faithfulness to the Commonwealth of Poland described in the article 82 of the Constitution of Poland.
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An academic Korean language handbook with practical exercises, commentaries and glossaries for Korean language students or those learning Korean at a university level. The language material used to explain Korean language system illustrates grammar rules, phrases, grammatical categories and syntax patterns. The book is the third volume in the „Coreana Varsoviensia” series.
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The book proposes a sociological analysis of Polish historiography of the contemporary period that treats the creation of Polish history as a type of public policy. Based on rich empirical material and using a number of research methods, most notably Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of fields, the author argues that policy of this kind was pursued, albeit using somewhat different methods, both in the People’s Republic of Poland and after the fall of communism. In keeping with this approach, the historians he studies are also seen as co-creators of historical policy, inevitably entangled in processes of instrumentalizing history, which Valentin Behr systematically investigates in terms of interrelations between social fields.
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The volume is a collection of essays by Polish scholars celebrating the bicentenary of British Romanticism. It explores selected works of both canonical and less often quoted writers of the times. The authors use various critical approaches (ecocriticism, posthumanism, affect theory, human-animal studies, reception studies), which reveal the relevance of Romantic literature in today’s world.
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A collection of essays prepared by contemporary Polish African scholars. The texts explore the identity of modern inhabitants of Africa, cultural patterns, legal culture and the functioning of administrative structures in this area.
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This edition contains duplicates of documents produced by the University of Warsaw in 1915–1919. All the documentation from that period was destroyed during World War II and was presumed irreversibly lost. The recent discovery of the duplicates in the University Archives and their publication contribute to our knowledge of not only the political aspects of University life but also the material and social dimensions of its day-to-day operations in that period. They also bring back the memory of the University’s technical and administrative staff, who are all too often overshadowed by the faculty.
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The monograph attempts to reconstruct the history of sport infrastructure in Warsaw between the First and the Second World War. Sport was a rapidly developing sphere of social life in interwar Poland. Sport clubs, divisions and organizations sprang up, associating increasing numbers of people eager to spend their leisure time seeking fulfilment in physical competition. This, in turn, generated a need for the development of sport infrastructure: sports fields, running tracks, tennis courts, ice rinks, cycling tracks, boating harbours. In 1918–1939, hundreds of new sport facilities were erected – from impressive complexes of the Central Institute for Physical Education or the Służewiec Racecourse all the way to local sports fields, school swimming pools and workplace shooting ranges.
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Kondakarnoie pienie is one of medieval music's enduring mysteries. The nature of its repertory and the deciphering of its musical script are beset with complex problems. The key to the direct transcription of Kondakarian musical notation has not survived, had it ever existed in the first place; an exact rendering of the Kondakarian neumes into modern staff notation is for now impossible owing to the peculiar nature of the signs. Aside from the contrasting cultural climates of the Byzantine Greeks and Medieval Slavs, local customs produce variants within a common manuscript tradition, and the considerable chronological differences separating the surviving corpus of manuscripts further complicates the situation. While those who have examined the Kondakar have universally acknowledged the Byzantine origins of its notation, the absence of a transcribable Byzantine intermediary has kept the decoding of the enigmatic script elusive, with the result that the bulk of its richest repertory, i.e., the kontakia, has remained indecipherable.
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The collection of articles explores the issue of the beginnings of inhumation in Poland perceived as a testimony to the adoption of Christianity. The discussion focuses on determining at whichmoment in our history the use of skeletal funeral rite begins: around 966, after the baptism of Mieszko I, in the second half of the 10th century, or during the times of Mieszko’s successor, Bolesław Chrobry in the 11th century? This is crucial for dating the beginnings of Christianity in Poland, the medieval skeletal cemeteries and the progress of Christianization of Polish lands.
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The book is devoted to the reconstruction and analysis of the philosophy of history and philosophy of culture, an outline of which Mieczysław Porębski presented in Z. Po-wieść (1989). This work is sometimes classified as a postmodern “professorial novel”, while the author of A seeker of sense among the strands of history tries to demonstate that the bricolage poetics is mainly staffage, as the distinguished art historian and theorist was motivated by the desire to reflect on the historical process and the meaning of European culture for contemporaries. The leitmotif of Z. is the wandering of the title character through the history and literature of the Old Continent, considered in the monograph i.a. in relation to the composition, the world presented, the autothematism, the philosophical assumptions and the ideological meaning of the novel. The authoress analyzes the figure of the protagonist, genological issues, the problem of historiography and narrative, and the textual implication of the authorial subject. She considers the dialectic between the search for universal truths about human nature and the imperative to convey the truth of one’s own time, and furthermore presents the futuristic predictions of the author of Iconosphere. Finally, she shows the hermeneutic perspective as the best one to interpret Z., as it is revealed in the actions and utterances of the protagonist himself, who seeks the essential message of tradition and the meaning of historical experience.
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The volume contains studies on towianism and its reception process in Polish culture (until present day) and in other cultures, especially in Italy. It is divided into three parts: the first part discusses towianism as a philosophical and philosophical-religious phenomenon, the second part focuses on the reception of towianism by Towianski’s contemporaries, the third part explores the influence of towianism on post-romanticism generations. The publication consists of twenty articles written by Polish and foreign scholars, who represent different fields of humanities, methodological strategies and scientific sensibilities.
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