CONTENTS

STUDIES

Marian Dygo, "Capitulare de villis" and the Bible. On the Economic Programme of Charlemagne.
Zbigniew Dalewski, The Knighting of Polish Dukes in the Early Middle Ages: Ideological and Political Significance.
Thomas Riis, La mentalité religieuse du Danemark au XVe siècle.
Maria Bogucka, Women and Culture in Poland in Early Modern Times.
Włodzimierz Mędrzecki, The Shaping of the Personality of Peasant Youth and Its Start in Life in Central Poland, 1864-1939.
Emilia Denkiewicz-Szczepaniak, Polish Workers from "Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen" (the Gdańsk-Western Prussia Region) in "Organisation Todt" in Finland and Norway, 1942-1945.
Marek Kazimierz Kamiński, British Attempts to Make the Polish Government Capitulate in Face of Soviet Claims (January-February 1944).
Jacek Tebinka, British Memoranda on Changing the Curzon Line in 1944.

DISCUSSIONS

Andrzej Wyczański, Une histoire de l'alimentation.
Mieczysław Tomala, "Polnische Wirtschaft".

REVIEWS

Zygmunt Zieliński, Germany. An Outline of Its History (Marceli Kosman); Studien zur Geschichte der deutsch-polnischen Kulturbeziehungen vom Mittelalter bis zum 19. Jahrhundert, hrsg. von Jan Pirożyński; Beiträge der polnischen Stipendiaten der Herzog August Bibliothek zur Philosophie, Geschichte und Philologie, hrsg. von Jan Pirożyński, Olga Dobijanka-Witczakowa u.a. (Marceli Kosman); Das Danziger Bürgertum, ed. Stanisław Salmonowicz (Andrzej Wyrobisz); Axel Erdmann, My Gracious Silence. Women in the Mirror of the 16th Century Printing in Western Europe (Maria Bogucka); Maria Bogucka, Women in Old Poland. Females in Polish Society from the 16th to the 18th Century in Comparison with Other Countries (Alicja Falniowska-Gradowska); Edmund Kizik, Death in Hanseatic Towns in the 16th-18th Centuries. A Study in Early Modern Funeral Culture (Maria Bogucka).

ABSTRACTS

NEWS

The Conference on Benedykt Zientara's Place in Polish Historiography (Krzysztof Skwierczyński); Polish and Lithuanian Culture in History. Identity and Coexistence (Marceli Kosman); The History of the Press in Great Poland (Marceli Kosman); Crises in Polish-Russian Relations during the Early Modern Era (Ewa Zielińska).

IN MEMORIAM

Aleksander Gieysztor 17.07.1916-9.02.1999 (Henryk Samsonowicz).