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Wojciech Fałkowski, The Power of the King, the Power of the Bishop. The Council of Fismes in 881 in the Face of a Crisis within the Carolingian Monarchy

Jacek Maciejewski, Places of Bishops' Consecration in Medieval Poland

GENDER STUDIES

Maria Bogucka, Women and the Roots of European Culture

Maciej Ptaszyński, Widow's Capital. Pastors' Widows in the Pomeranian Church at the Turn of the 16th Century

Anetta Głowacka, Women in a Small Polish Town in the 16th-18th Centuries

JEWISH STUDIES

Anna Michałowska-Mycielska, Jewish Family Structure in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the End of the 18th Century: the Case of Radoszkowice

Anna Wiernicka, The House of Herman Epstein. Contribution to the History of Warsaw Bourgeoisie in the Mid-19th Century

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Jakub Kujawiński, Sociological and Anthropological Inspirations to Research into the Identity of Early Medieval European Societies

Roman Wapiński, Transformations of Customs and Behaviour in Poland During the First Decades of the 20th Century. A Survey of Research Problems

REVIEWS

Katrinette Bodarwé, "Sanctimoniales litteratae". Schriftlichkeit und Bildung in den ottonischen Frauen-kommunitäten. Gandersheim, Essen und Quedlinburg (Jerzy Strzelczyk); Alison I. Beach, Women as Scribes. Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria (Jerzy Strzelczyk); Robert Żurek, Zwischen Nationalismus und Versöhnung. Die Kirchen und die deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen 1945-1956 (Jarosław Tarasiński)

ABSTRACTS

NEWS

Gerard Labuda on His 90th Birthday and 70th Anniversary of His Scholarly Work (Marceli Kosman)