CONTENTS


STUDIES

Maria Bogucka, Gender in the Economy of a Traditional Agrarian Society: the Case of Poland in the 16th-17th Centuries.
Andrzej Karpiński, Female Servants in Polish Towns in the Late 16th and 17th Centuries.
Mirosława Czarnecka, Das "gelehrte" Frauenzimmer. Zur Erziehung und Bildung der Frau im 17. Jahrhundert am Beispiel Schliesens.
Halina Chamerska, Woman of Petty Nobility in the Polish Kingdom During the 19th Century.
Tomasz Kizwalter, Modernization Processes and Emancipation of Women in Polish  Territories in the 19th Century.
Jadwiga Hoff, The Patterns of Female Behaviour in the Light of 19th and Early 20th Century Moral Codes.
Włodzimierz Mędrzecki, Peasant Women in the Polish Kingdom (the 19th Century -- Beginning of the 20th Century).
Anna Żarnowska, Education of Working-Class Women in the Polish Kingdom (the 19th Century -- Beginning of the 20th Century).

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Andrzej Wyrobisz, A New Approach to the History of Customs.
Stanisław Salmonowicz, Vom Unfug der Hexenprozesse.

REVIEWS

Klaus Zernack, Polen und Rußland. Zwei Wege in der europäischen Geschichte (Piotr Łossowski); Documenta Copernicana, ed. Andreas Kühne (Marian Biskup); Andrzej Karpiński, Women in Polish Towns in the Late 16th and 17th Centuries (Cezary Kuklo); Karen Lambrecht, Hexenverfolgung und Zauberprozesse in den schlesieschen Territorien (Maria Bogucka); Michał Komaszyński, Marie-Casimire d'Arquien Sobieska, the Beautiful Queen (Maria Bogucka); Jan Seredyka, The Princess and the Petty Nobleman. Zofia Drohostajska, née Radziwiłł -- Stanisław Tymiński (Maria Bogucka); Marcin Kula, Uphill to Europe. On Turkey in the Thirties and Also a Little about Contemporary Poland (Kazimierz Dopierała).

ABSTRACTS

NEWS

Women Among the Creators of Intellectual and Artistic Culture in Poland, 26-27 September 1995 (Andrzej Szwarc).
Everyday Life, a New Trend in Research into the History of Culture (Andrzej Karpiński).