CONTENTS

STUDIES

Jerzy Wyrozumski, Was Poland Affected by the Late-medieval Crisis of Feudalism?
Jerzy Topolski, "Truth Is Not Only a Fine Adornment of History, but Its Very Soul". Szymon Starowolski in Polish Historiography.
Maria Bogucka, Great Disputes Over Woman in Early Modern Times.
Edmund Kizik, The Pupil, the Master, and Death. The Funeral in the Daily Life of a School in a Hanseatic Town (from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century).
Micha³ Kopczyñski, Old Age Gives No Joy? Old People in the Kujawy Countryside at the End of the 18th Century.
Monika Milewska, L'enfer revolutionnaire. Le diable et les enfers dans la littérature politique française des années 1789-1799.
Ludwik Hass, "Private Citizens": A Forgotten Episode from the Prehistory of the Polish Intelligentsia.
Roman Wapiñski, The Problem of Generations in 19th and 20th Century Polish Social History.
Micha³ Jerzy Zacharias, The Beginnings of the Cominform. The Policy of the Soviet Union towards European Communist Parties in Connection with the Political Initiatives of the United States of America in 1947.

DISCUSSIONS

Edward Opaliñski, Der kleinpolnische Adel und die Interregna.
Stanis³aw Salmonowicz, Auf dem Weg zur neuen Synthese der Geschichte Preußens.

REVIEWS

Zbigniew Dalewski, Authority, Space, Ceremonial. The Place and Inauguration of the Ruler in Mediaeval Poland to the End of the Fourteenth Century (El¿bieta Kowalczyk); Janusz £osowski, Chanceries of Private Towns Owned by Noblemen in the Lublin Voivodeship from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century (Andrzej Wyrobisz); Hans Rothe, Silke Spieler (eds), Die Albertus-Universität zu Königsberg. Höhepunkte und Bedeutung (Jerzy Serczyk); Bartel Ranisch, Beschreibung derer vornähmesten Gebäude in der Stadt Danzig, ed. D. Kraack, A. Bartetzky (Maria Bogucka).

ABSTRACTS