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Poland's Solidarity Movement and the Global Politics of Human Rights
Offers a fresh perspective on recent human rights history by reconstructing debates around dissent and human rights across four countries.
Germans and Poles in the Middle Ages
This volume examines mutual ethnic and national perceptions and stereotypes in the Middle Ages by analysing a range of narrative historical sources, such as chronicles, hagiography, and literary material, with a particular focus on the mutual history of Germany and Poland. What sorts of stereotypes and prejudices existed in the Middle Ages, and how widespread were they? Or what other types of differentiating features were considered, and why? The majority of the contributions clearly shows that medieval authors in general displayed only limited interest in the activities of neighbouring lands, and only then when it concerned their own interests – such as matters of conflict, diplomacy, or marriage – while criticism usually focused on individuals, rather than being generalised to bordering regions as a whole. Contributors are Isabelle Chwalka, Jarochna Dąbrowska-Burkhardt, Stephan Flemmig, Sławomir Gawlas, Georg Jostkleigrewe, David Kalhous, Norbert Kersken, Paul Martin Langner, Roman Michałowski, Wojciech Mrozowicz, Piotr Okniński, Andrzej Pleszczyński, Volker Scior, Florian M. Schmid, Marcin Starzyński, Adam Szweda, Kristin Skottki, Grischa Vercamer, and Thomas Wünsch.
Arguments and Counter-Arguments
"Polish-Teutonic Order antagonism dominated Polish foreign policy in both the 14th and 15th centuries. One form of solving the Poland-Lithuania, Masovia, Słupsk Pomerania and Teutonic Order conflicts was a lawsuit. The present volume contains eight articles concerning selected aspects of the Polish-Teutonic Order trials in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Their authors belong to the younger and middle-aged generation of researchers in Australia, Poland and the United States. Their publications present the most recent trends and results in the field of the Order's trials with its neighbour countries in Central and Eastern Europe, where the aspects of national, historical and political identity started to play an important role at that time. It appears that political thought of the 14th and 15th centuries is very original in many points and can serve as a valuable inspiration in development of modern political thought.
Unions and Divisions
Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe: Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions in a pan-European overview. In the later Middle Ages, genealogical coincidences led to caesuras in various dynastic successions. Solutions to these were found, above all, in new constellations which saw one political entity becoming co-managed by the ruler of another in the form of a personal union. In the premodern period, such solutions were characterised by two factors in particular: on the one hand,...
The Teutonic Knights
A gripping account of the rise and fall of the last great medieval military order. This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the knights of the Teutonic Order, the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century. The book traces the Order’s evolution from a crusader field hospital into a major territorial ruler in northeastern Europe. Notably, the knights constructed distinctive fortified convents, including their headquarters in Western Christendom’s largest castle. The narrative concludes with the Order’s fifteenth-century decline due to the combined effects of a devastating war with Poland-Lithuania and the Protestant Reformation. The result is an accessible overview of this pivotal corporation in European history.
Religious Rites of War beyond the Medieval West
This is Volume One of a two-volume collection that brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare as well as their transformative and power- and identity-building potential across political communities of medieval Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Covering the period ca. 900 and 1500, the work takes theoretical, textual and practical approaches to the research on religious warfare, and investigates the connections between, and significance and function of crucial war rituals such as pre-, intra- and postbellum rites, as well as various activities surrounding the military life of individuals, polities, and corporates. Contributors are Robert Antonín, Robert Bubczyk, Dariusz Dąbrowski, Jesse Harrington, Carsten Selch Jensen, Sini Kangas, Radosław Kotecki, Gregory Leighton, Kyle C. Lincoln, Jacek Maciejewski, Yulia Mikhailova, Max Naderer, László Veszprémy, and Dušan Zupka.
Islands and Cities in Medieval Myth, Literature, and History
"The studies presented in this book derive from a series of sessions held at the annual International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK...Four sessions, held from 2004 to 2006, bore the title 'Islands of the World and the Seven Seas in Medieval Myth and History', and three in 2007 the title 'Cities, Myths and Literatures'...The stated objective of the island sessions was the location of a 'starting point for a new investigation into the possible impact that myths and other fictitious stories about insular wonderlands had on the reasons why medieval men and women undertook their various missions, searches and explorations that finally led to the discovery of the New World.' Similarly, the cities sessions 'intended to find new connections between ancient myths and medieval constructions of real or imagined cities in literature'."--editors' pref. p.7
Ludmiła Roszko (1913-2000). Wybitny geograf i współzałożycielka Instytutu Miłosierdzia Bożego w setną rocznicę urodzin
Fragment „Wstępu” […] Obchodzimy w tym roku setną rocznicę urodzin Ludmiły Roszko (1913–2000). To postać mało znana, nawet w Toruniu, w którym spędziła większą część swojego życia. Niniejsza publikacja ma na celu przypomnienie jej życia oraz dokonań. Bez wątpienia dotykamy tu ważnej i interesującej postaci w historii grodu Kopernika w XX wieku. Była wybitną geografką, specjalistką od zlodowaceń, a równocześnie znakomitą nauczycielką akademicką w Uniwersytecie Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Od studentów wymagała rzetelnej pracy, odnosząc się jednak do nich w sposób przyjazny i serdeczny. Pozostawiła po sobie wartościowe publikacje naukowe i wdzięc...
Ibss: Anthropology: 2003
First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features: * Authority: Rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics. * Breadth: today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more than any other comparable resource. The latest monograph publications are also included. * International Coverage: the IBSS reviews scholarship published in over 30 languages, including publications from Eastern Europe and the developing world. * User friendly organization: all non-English titles are word sections. Extensive author, subject and place name indexes are provided in both English and French.
Camino Polaco. Teologia – Sztuka – Historia – Teraźniejszość. Tom 4
Kolejny tom z serii „Camino Polaco” został przygotowany z okazji I Forum Ekonomicznego Camino Polaco, które odbędzie się 18 października 2019 roku w Toruniu. Głównym zadaniem Forum jest odkrywanie potencjału Szlaku św. Jakuba w Polsce, zwłaszcza w granicach województwa kujawsko-pomorskiego. Wydarzenie to zorganizowano w ramach programu „Dialog” finansowanego przez Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego. Forum daje sposobność, aby naukowe poszukiwania realizowane od wielu lat przez historyków, teologów, geografów, kulturoznawców, socjologów, przedstawiane na licznych konferencjach oraz w publikacjach, zostały ukazane szerokiemu gronu osób zaangażowanych w rozw...
