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The Polish-Lithuanian state was at the summit of its power in the 16 century. It was fully entitled to be proud of a flourishing development of culture, of its military achievements and a successful economic development. Nevertheless, it was then that predictions of the state's decline began to appear. The Catholic Church, too, felt itself endangered, its representatives resenting the toleration of...
The Polish-Lithuanian state was at the summit of its power in the 16th century. It was fully entitled to be proud of a flourishing development of culture, of its military achievements and a successful economic development. Nevertheless, it was then that predictions of the state’s decline began to appear. The Catholic Church, too, felt itself endangered, its representatives resenting the toleration...
The author develops one of the threads of Barbara Skarga's article ('Etyka' 31) on shamelessness. He starts from the statement of a historical changeability of shamelessness, understood as a striking violation of ethical and moral rules, especially concerning the sexual sphere. The article is based on author's studies on the old Polish attitude to sexual anomalies which were not only condemned, but...
The article discusses a polemic that in 1961 developed in the Polish emigrant press appearing in London; it concerned the book entitled Millennium. A Thousand Years of Polish History, issued in Poland in several languages. Most objections were aroused by the presentation of Polish-Russian relations over the ages (especially in the 20th century). Three authors of the synthesis were accused of downright...
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