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Early modern state formation in the margins? A review of early modern popular politics and limited royal power in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …
2017
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western European paradigm of historiography, the usual models being France, England, Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden. Regions that do not follow this paradigm have simply been left out and labeled “backward” or as “lagging behind”. In this literary review, our focus is on two different and rather surprising cases of early modern state formation: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Spanish colonial empire in Latin America. By following the scholarship on these two large conglomerates, we focus on two scholarly concepts: the idea of early modern realms as composite/conglomerate states, and state forma…
Obraz wspólnoty katolickiej w polskim dyskursie religijnym
2018
The aim of the article is to analyse contemporary patriotic preaching. It proves that the ethnocentrism of the Church in Poland, has an ethnically based definition of sacrum, limiting one's view to the Polish national community. As a consequence 'we'in such discourse is an equivalent of 'we, the Polish people'. Christian (or generally: human, universal) attitude is not evident. In the first part of the article the main elements of religious discourse are presented: type of speaker (hierarchs of the Church - archbishops, bishops), occasions (national and religious celebrations), places (cathedral, basilica, Jasna Góra Monastery). In the second part of the article, its author analyses a sermo…
Historia Domu Rekolekcyjnego Konferencji Episkopatu Polski "Księżówka" w Zakopanem w latach 1910-1945
2016
W artykule została przedstawiona droga do zrealizowania, podjętego w 1891 r., przez Stowarzyszenie Domu Zdrowia dla Kapłanów w Zakopanem założenia, budowy domu wspólnoty, z uwzględnieniem bazy zakładu leczniczego. Obiekt przyjmował różną formułę: od domu dla księży w celach zdrowotnych, turystycznych po współczesne funkcje rekolekcyjno-szkoleniowe; od przeznaczenia dla osób wyłącznie duchownych, po szeroką ofertę korzystania z domu przez osoby świeckie. Tekst wprowadza w atmosferę panującą w „Księżówce” w czasach zaboru austriackiego, w II Rzeczypospolitej oraz w okresie okupacji hitlerowskiej.
Remembrance of Jews in contemporary catholic homilies
2020
The paper discusses the problem of transferring the memory of Jews through Polish contemporary Catholic homilies. In the biblical pericopies read throughout the liturgical year during Catholic mass, generally Jews play a negative role – as persecutors and killers of Jesus. According to the provisions of the Second Vatican Council, anti-Jewish content cannot be proclaimed in the Catholic Church, and the Bible, which according to the doctrine must remain unchanged, should be adequately commented on in homilies. The paper – on the example of about 40 homilies – shows, however, that priests who preach homilies do not use modern exegetic knowledge, but replicate stereotypes deeply rooted in cult…
Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski, an English Writer with a Polish Soul: Joseph Conrad’s Polish Heritage
2018
The article presents a portrait of Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski, an English writer with a Polish soul. Conrad—the last Polish Romantic—did not only manage to introduce Polish dreams and longings into English (and Western) literature, but also transformed the Polish experience into a universal one. Writing about exotic, faraway places, he disseminated myths concerning Polish national identity, chivalric tradition and the Polish Eastern Borderland atmosphere and ethos. Conrad, a very demanding writer, never presents ready-made answers, nor does he offer simple solutions to the problems of his protagonists. Moreover, everybody can understand Conrad in their own personal way, for he is perceived …
Stany Zjednoczone w I wojnie światowej a odzyskanie niepodległości przez Polskę w 1918 roku w ujęciu współczesnej szkolnej narracji podręcznikowej
2018
Accotding to many historians, the US accession to the war in 1917 was of significant importance for the final resolution of the conflict, and thus also the revival of the independedt Polish state. In the article, we analyse this issue on the basic of contemporary Polish school history education. Textbooks for high school and technical school students were used as the source. Their authors agreed that "the entrance of Uncle Sam into the game", that is, the accession of the United States to the war in 1917 was one of the landmark moments in its over four - year history. The US president Thomas W. Wilson from January 8, 1918, in which a separate point about the revival of the independent Polis…
Kandydat PSL "Wyzwolenie" pierwszym prezydentem Polski, czyli wielka gra Stanisława Thugutta w grudniu 1922 roku
2019
In December 1922, the first presidential election in history took place in Poland. Voting was not universal because the National Assembly made their choice. One of the candidates for the office of president was proposed by Stanislaw Thugutt. He was the leader of the Polish People’s Party “Wyzwolenie/Liberation”. PPP “Wyzwolenie/Liberation” was one of the largest peasant parties in interwar Poland. In comparison with the largest peasant party in the Second Polish Republic – the Polish People’s Party “Piast” was a leftist party. On December 9, 1922, both parties supported the same candidate in a decisive vote. It was Gabriel Narutowicz, who was then the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In additio…
Polonica w Dzienniczku św. Siostry Faustyny Kowalskiej
2019
Z duchowych zapisków św. Siostry Faustyny Kowalskiej wyłania się prawda o grzesznej kondycji moralno-duchowej narodu polskiego. Faustyna modlitwą i cierpieniem wstawiała się u Boga o miłosierdzie nad jej Ojczyzną. Chrystus, Król Miłosierdzia zapowiedział, że z Polski ma wyjść iskra, która ma przygotować świat na ostateczne przyjście Zbawiciela.
Il Rinascimento polacco: un'opportunità perduta per un rinnovamento culturale?
2020
A massive Polish presence in Italy, particularly during the 16th and 17th century, is the fact often referred to when the roots of Polish humanist culture is under discussion. Indeed, Poland has been the only state in Central and Eastern Europe which absorbed on a larger scale the ideals of the Renaissance. However, the assimilation of Italian culture was the case, as it seems, in just a certain number of students, particularly those who had contacts with the University of Padova and the culture which flourished in the Republic of Venice. The element that distinguished the Poles from the others was the idea of struggle, mainly spiritual struggle, in connection with the post-Tridentine cultu…
Polish Superstitions and Customs Relating to Pregnancy Prior to 18 –th Century
2018
In Poland, care for pregnant women during the pagan era and after adopting Christianity was primarily based on folk medicine derived from a combinationof mysticism, pagan beliefs, Christian religion and basc empiricism. Most of the phenomena associating pregnancy and childbirth were not intelligible, but some of them could be well justified. Some of the superstitions are followed till the present day, the others for a long time no longer exist.