CONTENTS

STUDIES

Agnieszka Bartoszewicz, The litterati Burghes in Polish Late Medieval Towns.
Hanna Zaremska, Jewish Street (Platea Judeorum) in Cracow: the 14th-th First Half of the 15th C.
Andrei Pippidi, Moldavie et Pologne: la fin de la vassalité.
Maria Bogucka, Women in Politics. The Case of Poland in the 16th-18th Centuries.
Dorota Mazek, The Wardship of the Mentally Ill in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Second Half of the 18th C.
Joanna Sikorska-Kulesza, Prostitution in Congress Poland.
Janusz Żarnowski, The Old and the New Roles of the Intelligentsia in Poland.
Tomasz Szarota, Hitler über Piłsudski. Der deutsche Besatzer gegenüber dem Kult des polnischen Marschalls.
Krystyna Kersten, The Mass Protests in People's Poland -- A Continous Process or Single Events?

DISCUSSIONS

Janusz Żarnowski, New Outlook on the History of the Polish Intelligentsia. On the Book of Ludwik Hass, "The Polish Intelligentsia in Weal or Woe. The 19th and 20th Centuries".

REVIEWS

Maria and Kazimierz Piechotkowie, The Gates of Heaven, vol. 1, Wooden Synagogues in Old Poland, vol. 2, Brick and Stone Synagogues in Old Poland (Maria Bogucka); Polish Territories in the Tenth Century and Their Importance for the Shape of a New Europe, ed. H. Samsonowicz (Jacek Adamczyk); Krzysztof Mikulski, The Area and Society of Toruń from the End of the 14th to the Beginning of the 18th Century (Cezary Kuklo); Dariusz Kupisz, Zbigniew Gorajski, 1596-1655. A Study in the History of the Protestant Nobility in Little Poland in the First Half of the 17th Century (Edward Opaliński); Lidia A. Zyblikiewicz, Woman in Cracow in 1880 in the Light of the Census. A Demographic Study (Cezary Kuklo); Natali Stegmann, Die Töchter der geschlagenen Helden. "Frauenfrage", Feminismus und Frauenbewegung in Polen 1863-1919 (Maria Bogucka); Equal Rights and Unequal Chances. Women in Inter-war Poland, ed. A. Żarnowska, A. Szwarc (Jerzy Tomaszewski).

ABSTRACTS

NEWS

The Church in Town. Medieval Poland and East-Central Europe (Marek Słoń).
Weddings, Christenings and Funerals in the 16th-18th Centuries. Life and Death Culture (Tomasz Wiślicz).
Polish-Scottish Relations, 15th-18th Centuries (Maria Bogucka).
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania -- Culture and Economy in the 16th-Early 19th Centuries (Henryk Wisner).