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The ‘Obstacle of Sex’. Christina of Sweden and Her Aspirations to the Polish–Lithuanian Throne

Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 68-84, March 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT An important field of research related to early modern sovereignty is the topic of female political authority. This article aims to utilise the category of gender to analyse potential obstacles that Queen Christina of Sweden had to overcome in order to obtain royal dignity in an elective monarchy, the early modern Polish–Lithuanian ...
Dorota Gregorowicz
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Ophthalmology research in the Warsaw Jewish ghetto—hunger disease and the story of Szymon Fajgenblat, MD

Acta Ophthalmologica, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 236-241, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Purpose During World War II, scientific studies were conducted in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw (Poland). This research, focusing on hunger‐induced disease, was embedded in circumstances of omnipresent hunger and starvation. Ophthalmologist Szymon Fajgenblat (1900–1944) was one of the involved physicians and wrote a manuscript about ...
Richard H. C. Zegers, Maria Ciesielska, Andrzej Grzybowski   +2 more
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Divine Struggles: Writing Histories of the Jewish Experience that Are Sensitive to Religious Sensitivities*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 707-725, December 2022., 2022
How can historians untangle the dynamics between intentional religious belief, inherited cultural practices and the numerous contexts (social, cultural, political) that outline relationships between religious majorities and religious minorities? This paper uses the exceptionally complex past of east central Europe in the modern period (and the 1930s ...
Sarah A. Cramsey
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Anti‐abortion Activism in Poland and the Republic of Ireland c.1970s–1990s*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 526-551, September 2022., 2022
This comparative article explores anti‐abortion activism in Poland and Ireland from the period of the 1970s to the early 1990s. Drawing on a range of archival and printed sources, it sheds light on the Polish and Irish anti‐abortion movements as a part of transnational anti‐abortion efforts and underscores the importance of studying such phenomena ...
Sylwia Kuźma‐Markowska, Laura Kelly
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Evolution of consumer bankruptcy in Poland: A chance for a new life for insolvent debtors?

International Insolvency Review, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 217-234, Summer 2022., 2022
Abstract This article discusses the issue of the evolution of consumer bankruptcy in Poland which was introduced into Polish law in 2009. The authors explain why the legislator abstained from introducing consumer bankruptcy along with a huge reform of insolvency framework in 2003.
Monika Maśnicka, Joanna Kruczalak‐Jankowska   +1 more
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Institutional incongruence and unauthorized copying in Poland

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 3-30, March 2022., 2022
Abstract The aim of this article was to find out how the cognitive dissonance resulting from the occurrence of institutional incongruence in the context of copying information goods in online society is reduced. The implementation of this goal required conceptualization work and empirical research.
Sławomir Czetwertyński
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational literary exchange in the early modern Low Countries

Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 8-26, February 2022., 2022
Abstract Dutch culture in the Golden Age has long attracted the attention of scholars working in early modern European history, and the centrality of the urban culture of the Dutch Republic, especially in Holland, in European and global affairs has been frequently noted.
Jan Bloemendal, James A. Parente Jr., Nigel Smith   +2 more
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In the Shadow of a Mild Revolution: Polish Women's Political Attitudes during the Great Sejm (1788−1792)

Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 75-93, March 2021., 2021
Abstract The Great Sejm (1788−1792) is perceived as a turning point in Stanisław August Poniatowski's reign and as one of the most important Sejms in the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Studies devoted to this period concentrate in particular on parliamentary debates and deputies’ actions, as they were leading actors in this so‐called ...
Dorota Wiśniewska
wiley   +1 more source

Korespondencja firmy Gebethner & Wolff z Józefem Ignacym Kraszewskim

Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi, 2017
The presented selection of correspondence constitutes an interesting source concerning the relationship between publishers and authors within the area of Poland and partitioned Polish lands in the 19th century.
Katarzyna Seroka
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Dyskretny urok wielokulturowości

Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2022
The Discreet Charm of Multiculturalism Review of: Jerzy Nikitorowicz, Grupy etniczne w wielokulturowym świecie [Ethnic Groups in a Multicultural World], Sopot: Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne 2009.
Michał Rauszer
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