Contents
STUDIES
MYTH AND HISTORY
Henryk Samsonowicz, History in Myths
Jacek Banaszkiewicz, Widukind on the Saxon Origins: Saxo,
Thuring, and Landkaufszene (Res gestae Saxonicae, I, 5). The Imitation of
Ancient Patterns, an Old Tribal Saga or the Product of Scholarly Erudition by
Saxon Intellectuals of the 9th-10th Centuries?
Stanisław Bylina, Status Innocentiae. The-State-of-Innocence
Myth in Late Medieval Religious Contestation Movements
Janusz Tazbir, The Bulwark Myth
Maria Bogucka, Remarks on the Myth of the Bulwark of
Christianity
Roman Wapiński, Old and New Myths in 20th Century Poland
Andrzej Wierzbicki, From Historiography to Mythography? Myth
in the Last Fifty Years of Polish Historiography
Jerzy Eisler, Myths and Stereotypes in Poland under the
Communist Rule
INFORMAL RELATIONS IN MODERN SOCIETY, PATRONAGE AND CLIENTELISM
Antoni Mączak, Clientelism as the Highest Stage of
Imperialism
REVIEWS
Stanisław Grodziski, From the
History of Old Polish Legal Culture (Monika Hamanowa); Paul Douglas
Lockhart, Frederik II and the Protestant Cause. Denmark's Role in the Wars of
Religion 1559-1596 (Maria Bogucka); Almut Bues, Das Herzogtum Kurland
und der Norden der polnisch-litauischen Adelsrepublik im 16. und 17. Jahrundert
(Igor Kąkolewski); Mirosława Czarnecka, Jolanta Szafarz (eds.), The
Culture of Sadness. The Paradigms of Attitudes Towards Death in German Baroque
Literature. From the Collections of the Wrocław University Library (Maria
Bogucka); Mirosława Czarnecka, Prophetesses. Reconstruction of Female
Genealogy in the History of German Female Literature from the Middle of the
19th Century to the End of the 20th (Maria Bogucka); Ryszard Techman,
The Red Army in the Maritime Economy of Western Pomerania in the Years
1945-1956 (Henryk Bartoszewicz); Ruta Czaplińska, From the Archives of
Memory. 3653 Days in Prison (Dariusz Jarosz); Grzegorz Miernik (ed.),
The Poles' Attitude to the Realities of the Polish People's Republic.
Adaptation Strategies (Janusz Żarnowski)
ABSTRACTS
NEWS
French Nobility — Polish
Nobility: Memory, Identity, Culture, Toruń, May 13-15, 2004 (Jarosław
Dumanowski, Stanisław Roszak)
Solitude and Informal Unions.
Socio-cultural Aspects of Sexuality, 19th and 20th Centuries, Warsaw May 27-29,
2004 (Katarzyna Sierakowska)