Contents


STUDIES


Ferdinand Opll, Cologne and Vienna in the Middle Ages: a ComparisonRoman Czaja, Patrician Guilds in Medieval Towns on the Baltic Coast


Maria Bogucka, At the Dawn of Emancipation


Piotr Łossowski, The Resettlement of the Germans from the Baltic States in 1939/1941


Andrzej Koryn, International Aspects of the Sovietisation of Central-Eastern Europe, 1944-1947


Michał Jerzy Zacharias, Communist Power in Yugoslavia in the Years 1945-1991. Rrise, Transformations, Decay


Jacek Tebinka, The Attitude of British Diplomacy to the Events of 1968 in Poland


DISCUSSIONS


Magdalena Gawin, On the Book of Dobrochna Kałwa: The Active Woman in Inter-War Poland


Tomasz Wiślicz, The "Annales" School and the Challenge of the Late 20th Century. Criticisms and Tentative Reforms


REVIEWS


Sources Published by the Society of the Lovers of Cracow's History and Relics of the Past (Elżbieta Knapek); Maria i Kazimierz Piechotkowie, Oppidum Judaeorum. Jews in the Urban Space of the Old Commonwealth (Maria Bogucka); The Attitude of the Knights of Central-Eastern Europe Towards the Idea of Crusades, eds. W. Peltz, J. Dudek (Dariusz Adam Sikorski); Kînigliche Gewalt -- Gewalt gegen Kînige. Macht und Mord im spatmittelalterlichen Europa, hrsg. M. Kintzinger, J. Rogge (Maria Bogucka); Jan Pirożyński, Sophie Jagiellon and Her Collection of Books (Maria Bogucka); Markus Osterrieder, Das wehrhafte Friedensreich. Bilder von Krieg und Frieden in Polen-Litauen (1505-1595) (Maria Bogucka); Weddings, Baptisms and Funerals in the 16th-18th Centuries. Life and Death Culture, ed. H. Suchojad (Małgorzata Pilaszek); Krzysztof Mikulski, The Inability Trap. Society in an Early Modern Town and Modernisation Processes, with Toruń in the 17th and 18th Centuries as an Example (Andrzej Wyrobisz); Die Nachlassverzeichnisse der Einwohner der Stadt Pernau 1702-1800, bearb. R. Pullat (Maria Bogucka); Woman and Marriage. The Socio-Cultural Aspects of Sexuality. 19th and 20th Centuries, eds. A. Żarnowska, A. Szwarc (Cezary Kuklo)


ABSTRACTS


NEWS


Gutters, Latrines and Closets. Sanitation Problems in Central-European Towns in Medieval and Early Modern Times (Andrzej Karpiński, Urszula Sowina)


IN MEMORIAM


Jan Pirożyński (7.03.1936 - 8.10.2004) (Maria Bogucka)