Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review)

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THE PEOPLE'S MILITIA AND ECONOMIC CRIMES (1956-1970). THE EVOLUTION OF STRUCTURES AND ITS DETERMINANTS

K. Madej

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 1 > 49-70

A presentation of the transformations of the structures and main trends of activity of the militia in its battle against economic crimes. The author stresses that until 1956 the communist authorities in Poland preferred to expand services involved in political persecution (the Security Office) at the cost of, i.a. a police apparatus focused on the economy. At the time of the breakdown of the Stalinist...

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BETWEEN CORRUPTION AND XENOPHOBIA. THE CHANGED PERCEPTION OF CORRUPTION IN THE FORMER COMMONWEALTH. A PROBLEM OUTLINE

I. Kakolewski

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 1 > 11-26

The author indicates that the majority of civil servants in early modern Poland did not receive steady wages; it was customary for them to be paid by the clients. This is the reason why the seventeenth-century public debate included opinions calling for the necessity of replacing such customary payments, whose amount was not defined, by steady wages financed by public founds. Nonetheless, the system...

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A STATE WITHOUT CORRUPTION? DENMARK DURING THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINITEENTH CENTURY

E. Szelagowska

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 1 > 41-48

Contemporary Scandinavian countries are seen as almost totally devoid of corruption. Naturally, this state of things was not always part of the history of the region. The scope of corruption in modern and present-day Scandinavia, and the sources of its disappareance, are illustrated particularly clearly by the example of Denmark Up to mid-nineteenth century the absolutist system prevalent in this...

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GREAT VERULAM IS VERY LAME... ACCUSATIONS OF CORRUPTION AGAINST FRANCIS BACON AND HIS FALL FROM POWER IN POLITICAL POETRY

A. Kalinowska

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 1 > 27-40

The article aims to present how accusations of corruption against Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon and his fall from power were described in English political poetry, especially in licentious poems known as 'libels'. These satirical poems on individuals or events (e.g. political or social) that were very popular in the late 16th and especially in the early 17th century, have been attracting historians'...

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'NO ONE IN THE STATE MAY REMAIN BEYOND CONTROL'. REMARKS ON CORRUPTION IN ATHENS FROM THE FIFTH TO FOURTH CENTURY B.C.

R. Kulesza

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 1 > 1-9

According to the provisions of the Athenian law, persons fulfiling public funtions were bound (with the clerk's oaths, or an imprecation proclaimed by a herald before the opening of a session of the People's Assembly) and obliged under the threat of a legal action (eisangelia, euthyna, apophasis, aprographe, graphe klopes, graphe doron, graphe dekasmou) to act honestly in a manner excluding the possibility...

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THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF POLISH RESEARCHES DURING THE VISITS TO THE WEST IN THE 1950s AND 1960s

P. Pleskow

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 2 > 197-214

The article discusses various problems connected with trips made by researchers from communist Poland to French-speaking parts of Western Europe. The author presented the complicated procedure of obtaining the consent of the state authorities, which involved assorted ministeries: Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs, Higher Education, and Finances as well as the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Department...

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GNIEWOSZ - JADWIGA - WILHELM. A CRITIQUE OF 'ANNALES' BY JAN DLUGOSZ

J. Nikodem

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 2 > 175-195

The article deals with an account of Dlugosz about the efforts made by Wilhelm Habsburg to marry the Polish Queen Jadwiga. According to the cronicler, Wilhelm officialy arrived in Cracow in 1385, and then, disguised as a merchant, again in 1386 and 1388. The author claims that Dlugosz took this information from Austrian croniclers (probably via sources of Teutonic Order origin), supporting Wilhelm's...

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THE APPAREANCE OF A PURE GREEK IN GREEK LITERATURE OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC

K. Stebnicka

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 2 > 157-173

The article deals with physiognomic - a Greek science studying the character, predisposition and even fate of man upon the basis of assorted features of appareance. The author is particulary interested in the likeness of an ethnicaly 'pure' Greek (i.e. not mixed with representtives of other peoples), depicted in the writings of the Sophist and physiognomist Polemon of Smyrna (88-144 A.D.). According...

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ADULTERY IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL SOCIETY

A. Pieniadz

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 3 > 351-367

The authoress deals with adultery in the legislation of the Catholic Church concerning persons, who were forbidden to enter into wedlock. The chronological censure closing the scope of interest of the article is the time when the Church finally worked out its doctrine in that matter. Apart from the analysis of the legislation itself, the authoress looks into its practical functioning too. In the period...

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HOMOSEXUALITY, POLITICS AND THE MEDIA: THE EULENBURG SCANDAL (1906-1909)

M. Kohlrausch

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 3 > 397-417

The article is concerned with the political campaign undertaken by the rightwing journalist Maximillian Harden, who aimed at depriving of political influence Philipp von Eulenburg, an adviser to Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the politicians close to him. To this end Harden published a series of press articles, which presented Eulenburg and his milieu as a powerful 'conspiracy' of homosexuals who professed...

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FROM 'DISGRACEFUL TRANSGRESSION' TO GENDER STUDIES: RESEARCH ON GREEK PEDERASTY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

W. Lengauer

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 3 > 315-328

The author points out that at the beginning of the 20th century differences in the norms concerning homosexuality between antique Greece and the contemporary world were a major problem for the researchers and teachers working on ancient history. Such themes were either omitted or treated in accord with modern moral standards. The Polish author Kazimierz Jarecki (1931) for instance interpreted passages...

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AGAINST SODOMY AMONG THE CLERGY - PETER DAMIAN'S LIBER GOMORRHIANUS

K. Skwierczynski

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 3 > 369-382

The article discusses the first unwavering attack by a man of the cloth against sodomy (understood, on the contrary to the use of the term in earlier sources, exclusively as homosexual behaviour). This attack was delivered in the form of a treatise entitled 'Liber Gomorrihianus', written by the outstanding Church reformist Peter Damian. Prior to Damian no Christian writer condemned homosexuality in...

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SOCIAL TOLERANCE, INTOLERANCE AND SUPERSTITIONS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE. STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF HOHOSEXUALITY, SOCIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS, AND THEIR ROLE IN EUROPEAN CULTURE

A. Wyrobisz

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 3 > 383-395

The author begins with discussion of terminology concerning homosexuality in the past and to day (peccatum contra naturam, sodomy, pederasty, gay people, homosexuals, homophobia). In the second part of his article the author presents the development of historical research on homosexuality (male and lesbian) from the beginning of the 18th century (Jeremy Bentham, Johann Winckelmann) till now. The most...

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REMARKS ON PROSTITUTION IN ATHENS DURING THE 5TH AND 4TH CENTURY BC.

M. Nowak

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 3 > 329-350

The authoress points out that in ancient Greece prostitution was considered a natural phenomenon and was not opposed by the state. The prices of erotic services, although differentiated, were on such a level that even men of relatively modest means could afford them. Prostitution in Athens during the 5th and 4th centuries BC encompassed both women and men, with the reservation that while the women...

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THE OFFICIAL ACTIVITIES AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE LWÓW BRANCH OF THE POLISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD

S. Ciara

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 4 > 505-511

The article concerns the activities of the Lwów Branch of the Polish Historical Society from its foundation (16 January 1925) until the outbreak of World War II. The author presents the organizational structure of the group, its managing officers, its financial basis, the subjects of the held sessions, conference attendance, publications, and the social life of its members. The Lwów historical community...

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THE CHURCH AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ACTIVITY OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY IN THE KINGDOM OF POLAND

M. Deszczynska

Przeglad Historyczny (Historical Review) > 2007 > 4 > 487-504

The authoress indicates that the beginning of the Polish branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society in the Kingdom of Poland took place in 1814 and that the later date proposed in certain publications marks the moment when in the wake of perturbations connected with the fall of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Congress of Vienna the branch actually initiated work. Its patron was Alexander I, the tsar...

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