CONTENTS

STUDIES

Memory and Collective Identity: How Do Societies Construct and Administer Their Past?

Jerzy Topolski, Myths in Research into the Past.
Henryk Samsonowicz, The Origin of Poland, or Images of Our Own Beginnings.
Roman Wapiński, Gdańsk in Polish Political Mythology -- the Formation of Political Consciousness.

Family, Marriage and Property Rights

Tomasz Jurek, Married to a Foreigner. Wives and Daughters of German Knights in Silesia During the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century.
Maria Bogucka, Marriage in Early Modern Poland.
Teresa Zielińska, Noblewomen's Property Rights in 16th-18th c. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

The Baltic Area in History

Jerzy Trzoska, Gdańsk on the Economic Map of Early Modern Europe.
Stanisław Salmonowicz, The Culture of Eastern Pomerania at the Threshold of the Modern Era.

The History of Disease

Anna Rutkowska-Płachcińska, The "Fire" Disease and the Anthonites in Medieval Western and Central Europe.
Andrzej Wyrobisz, "Misericordia pestis tempore". Attitudes and Behaviour During Pestilences in Early Modern Poland (16th-18th Centuries).

The Openning of Archives and the History of Communism

Wojciech Materski, Polish Issues in Newly Opened Resources of Post-Soviet Archives.

REVIEWS

"Studia Judaica" (Stefan Gąsiorowski); Christopher March, Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England. Holding Their Peace (Tomasz Wiślicz); Henry Phillips, Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France (Tomasz Wiślicz); Jerzy Jedlicki, A Suburb of Europe. Nineteenth-Century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization (Magdalena Micińska); Diana Siebert, Bäuerliche Alttagsstrategien in der Belarussischen SSR (1921-1941). Die Zerstörung patriarchalischer Familienwirtschaft (Włodzimierz Mędrzecki).

NEWS

Residences in Medieval and Modern Times (Edward Opaliński).