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(Polish title: Królestwo Cypru jako obiekt zainteresowan panstw sródziemnomorskich w latach 1192-1489. Próba zarysowania). Under the rule of the French Lusignan dynasty, Cyprus quickly became the focus of interest to other countries: Sicily under the reign of the Hohenstaufen, Anjou and Aragon houses, Italian countries of Genoa, Venice and Duchy of Savoy, England and African Mamluk Sultanate. Initially...
Polish title: Emigracja ludnosci zydowskiej z Polski do Izraela w latach 1956-1959. Przyczyny, przebieg wyjazdu, proces adaptacji w nowej ojczyznie). The present article discusses the reasons for the emigration of Jews from Poland in 1956-1959, the stages of the process as well as the emigrants' assimilation in Israel. For the purpose of presenting a complete description of the subject, I began with...
The text introduces the issue of branch churches in the context of parish system and functioning in medieval Moravia. The Czech literature has often depicted the medieval parish system on Czech territories as a structure divided into two clearly defined and explicitly varying groups: parish churches and branch churches. Yet different sources contain a more complex picture of branch churches as being...
(Polish title: Miedzy holdem uwielbienia a programowym dystansem. O krakowskich obchodach setnej rocznicy urodzin Juliusza Slowackiego). Juliusz Slowacki was a poet who remained until the day of his death in the shadow of the Great Foremost One, as Adam Mickiewicz was called. It was not until the following generations started to know and understand him better that he was elevated to the rank of the...
The article describes the institution of the Professors' General Meeting which constituted the highest collegial self-government body at universities in the Second Polish Republic. The basic formal and legal conditions for the functioning of the institution are described. The body of the article is divided into six parts. The introduction points to the unique nature of the General Meeting in the context...
(Polish title: Rozwój drukarstwa w Niderlandach w XVI wieku na przykladzie Antwerpii i rola druku podczas antyhiszpanskiego powstania). The Netherlands and especially Antwerp acted a signifi cant role in developing of printing. The Scheldt city, called one of the three typographical capitals of Europe, was in the 16th century famous of its stock exchange, merchants, skilled artists and craftsmen....
(Polish title: Llibre de totes maneres de confits. Ksiega o roznych sposobach przyrzadzania slodyczy - starokatalonski zbior przepisów kulinarnych z XIV wieku). Llibre de totes maneres de confits is an anonymous collection of Catalan confectionery recipes from the second half of the 14th century and one of the earliest among those produced in the Christian part of the world during the Late Middle...
(German title: Das Heroldsbuch des jülich-bergischen Hubertusordens und die Chorfenster von Ehrenstein). Some years ago I was doing research on the 15th century stained glass windows of our parish church. There, in the choir of Ehrenstein church I came across the Julich-Berg Order of St. Hubert. Very few contemporary sources relating to the Order remain. They are the Statuten, the Heroldsbuch, the...
The author of the article discusses the application of GIS systems for historical research as well as for presenting the research results. The first part of the article contains definitions of GIS and a short history of the method development in the second half of the 20th century. Afterwards the article focuses on scant sources on the subject in the Polish language and slightly less so in English...
The beginnings of the Czech independent political journalism are intrinsically connected with the person of Karel Havlicek Borovsky, a writer, a journalist and an activist. In 1846-1851 he subsequently worked as the editor of three nationalistic and liberal journals: Prazske Noviny, Narodni Noviny and Slovan. In Prazske Noviny he published a series of polemical articles entitled Slovan a Cech (1846)...
Carried out by Florin Curta in his work The Making of the Slavs and repeated in subsequent publications, the entire reconstruction of the historical situation in the Balkans under the rule of Justinian I does not reflect the reality of the period. Overestimating the role of barbarian invasions and the lack of a critical analysis of the description presented in the 4th book of De Aedificiis by Procopius...
The article describes the institution of the Professors' General Meeting which constituted the highest collegial self-government body at universities in the Second Polish Republic. The basic formal and legal conditions for the functioning of the institution are described. The body of the article is divided into six parts. The introduction points to the unique nature of the General Meeting in the context...
(Polish title: Królestwo Cypru jako obiekt zainteresowan panstw sródziemnomorskich w latach 1192-1489. Próba zarysowania). Under the rule of the French Lusignan dynasty, Cyprus quickly became the focus of interest to other countries: Sicily under the reign of the Hohenstaufen, Anjou and Aragon houses, Italian countries of Genoa, Venice and Duchy of Savoy, England and African Mamluk Sultanate. Initially...
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