CONTENTS

STUDIES

Nations, Peoples and State Forms

Henryk Samsonowicz, La diversité ethnique au Moyen Age: le cas polonais.
Juliusz Bardach, De la nation politique à la nation ethnique dans le Centre-Est de l'Europe.
Roman Wapiński, Polish Private Homelands and the Concept of a Polish National Territory on the Eve of the Independence.
Tomasz Szarota, National Stereotypes as the Theme of Historical Research in Poland.

Women, Men and Historical Change: Case Studies in the Impact of Gender History

Andrzej Wyrobisz, Patterns of the Family and Woman in Old Poland.
Jan Pirożyński, Legacy of Sophie, Duchess of Brunswick (1575-1672).
Andrzej Szwarc, Women and Revolutionary Violence in Russia in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.
Anna Żarnowska, Changes in the Occupation and Social Status of Women in Poland since the Industrial Revolution till 1939.

Punishments, Penalties and Prisons in Historical Perspective

Halina Manikowska, The Florentine Communal Prison -- Le Stinche -- in the Fourteenth Century.
Marcin Kamler, Penalties for Common Crimes in Polish Towns 1550-1650.
Maria Bogucka, Law and Crime in Poland in Early Modern Times.
Elżbieta Kaczyńska, Town and Countryside in Penal Judicature and Criminality: Kingdom of Poland, 1815-1914.

REVIEWS

Königsberg and Poland. Collected work, ed. by Marian Biskup and Wojciech Wrzesiński (Andrzej Wyrobisz); Stanisław Bylina, L'homme et l'au-delà. Visions des peines posthumes en Pologne médiévale (Maria Bogucka); Krystyna Cieślak, Bildnisepitaphien in Danzig 15.-17. Jahrhundert (Maria Bogucka); Guillaume Le Vasseur, Sieur de Beauplan, A Description of Ukraine (Andrzej Rachuba); Woman and Society in the Polish Territories in the 19th Century. Collected Studies, ed. by Anna Żarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc (Krzysztof Makowski); Women and Education in the Polish Territories in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Collected Studies ed. by Anna Żarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc (Kalina Bartnicka); Marek K. Kamiński, Michał J. Zacharias, In the Shadow of Peril. The Foreign Policy of the Polish Republic 1918-1939 (Henryk Batowski).

NEWS

La cour en tant que centre de pouvoir et de culture, XVe-XVIIe s. (Małgorzata Wilska); The Union of Lublin and Integrative Traditions in East-Central Europe (Bogumił Szady); The Network of Fairs in Poland from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Century (Andrzej Karpiński, Edward Opaliński).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliographie sélective des traveaux des historiens polonais parus en langues étrangères dans les années 1988-1993 (Stefan Gąsiorowski).