CONTENTS

STUDIES

Marek Słoń, Hospitals in the City of Lwów in the Middle Ages.
Maria Bogucka, Town Hall as Symbol of Power. Changes in the Political and Social Functions of Town Hall in Gdańsk till the End of the 18th Century.
Almut Bues, Kurland in der Frühen Neuzeit.
Walter Leitsch, Piekarskis Versuch, König Sigismund III. zu töten.
Jerzy Trzoska, Naval Forces and Sea-Borne Trade in Augustus II's Policy.
Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Le débat polonais sur la liberté de parole dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle.
Artur Patek, Remarks on the Situation of the Catholic Church in the USSR in the Interwar Period.
Tomasz Szarota, Paris et Varsovie -- deux capitales sous l'occupation allemande.
Elżbieta Znamierowska-Rakk, The Versailles Order and the Yalta-Postdam Settlement in the Balkans: Comparative Approach.


RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Roman Michałowski, Die Politik von Otto III. in neuer Beleuchtung.
Maria Bogucka, The Centre and Periphery of Witchcraze.
Eugeniusz Duraczyński, The Warsaw Rising. Research and Disputes Continue.

REVIEWS

Historischer Atlas polnischer Städte, Bd I: Das Königliche Preußen und das Hochstift Ermland, hrsg. von Antoni Czacharowski (Andrzej Wyrobisz); Origins of Medieval Towns in Temperate Europe, ed. Przemysław Urbańczyk (Henryk Samsonowicz); Bogdan Rok, Man and Death in Old Polish Culture (Maria Bogucka); David A. Frick, Meletij Smotryc'kyj (Władysław A. Serczyk); Jan Baszanowski, Demographic Changes in Gdańsk in 1601-1846 in the Light of Tables of General Movements (Cezary Kuklo); Stanisław Salmonowicz, Preußen. Geschichte von Staat und Gesellschaft (Maria Bogucka); Zygmunt Zieliński, The Era of Revolutions and Totalitarianisms. Studies and Essays (Jan Żaryn).

ABSTRACTS

NEWS

Man in Medieval Society. Professor Aleksander Gieysztor's Jubilee (Maria Bogucka).