Jerzy Pysiak, Kings and Beasts. Kings' Miraculous and Mysterious Encounters with Animals.
Maria Bogucka, Time Perception in Gdańsk/Danzig on the Threshold of the Early Modern Era.
Andrzej Karpiński, Child Abuse in Polish Towns. 16th-18th Centuries.
Piotr Łossowski, Russian Authorities' Policy Towards National Minorities. Prohibition of Lithuanian Publications, 1864-1904.
Katarzyna Maniewska, The Famine of 1921-1922 in the Volga Germans' Republic.
Daniel Boćkowski, The Australian Legation and Care for Polish Citizens in the Soviet Union during World War II.

DISCUSSIONS

Małgorzata Pilaszek, Failure of Witch-Hunts in 16th-18th Century Europe? (On Witches & Neighbours. The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft by Robin Briggs, London 1996).

REVIEWS

Stanisław Bylina, The Christianisation of the Polish Countryside at the Close of the Middle Ages (Tomasz Wiślicz); From Birth to Adulthood. Children and Young People in Poland. From the Middle Ages to the 18th Century, eds. M. Dąbrowska and A. Klonder (Maria Bogucka); Mariusz Misztal, The Elizabethan Courtier. Ideal versus Reality Embodied in Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Maria Bogucka); Die Jagiellonen. Kunst und Kultur einer europoischen Dynastie an der Wende zur Neuzeit, hrsg. Dietmar Popp, Robert Suckle (Maria Bogucka); Stefan Gąsiorowski, Christians and Jews in the Town of Żółkiew in the 17th and 18th cc. (Andrzej Karpiński); The Case of Jedwabne, eds. Paweł Machcewicz and Krzysztof Persak (Dariusz Jarosz).

ABSTRACTS

NEWS

Sexuality and Culture. Social and Cultural Conditions of Sexual Education, Selection of Marriage Partners and Transformation of Marriage Patterns in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Katarzyna Sierakowska).
The Roots of Central-European and Upper-Silesian Economic Culture (Andrzej Trojnar).