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This book makes a contribution to ongoing European research into the political discourse of the early modern era, analyzing the political discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795). The sources comprise the broadly understood political literature from the end of the sixteenth century until the end of the eighteenth century. The author has selected and analysed concepts and ideas that are particularly important for the noble political discourse, with the aim of understanding what these concepts meant for the participants in public debate, who used them, how they explained and described the world, how they allowed for the formulation of political postulates and ideals, wheth...
This volume presents a new picture of marriage in medieval Poland. Based on the analysis of historical documents from the ecclesiastical courts of one of the oldest dioceses in Poland, this book sheds light on the presence and prevalence of a wide range of marital problems in the Diocese of Poznań in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. Through the material presented, the voices of one of the most underrepresented groups in the history of society – namely women from the lower social strata – are amplified.
Ivan N. Petrov’s The Development of the Bulgarian Literary Language: From Incunabula to First Grammars, Late Fifteenth–Early Seventeenth Century examines the history of the first printed Cyrillic books and their role in the development of the Bulgarian literary language. In the literary culture of the Southern Slavs, especially the Bulgarians, the period that began at the end of the fifteenth century and covered the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is often seen as a foreshadowing of the pre-national era of modern times. In particular, the centuries-old manuscript tradition was gradually replaced by the Cyrillic printed book, which—after the incunabula of Krakow and Montenegro—was...
Monografia „Języki słowiańskie w kontekstach kultur dawnych i współczesnych” jest piątą publikacją z cyklu opracowań przygotowanych w Instytucie Języka Polskiego Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w ramach projektu „Synchronia i diachronia – zbliżenia i dialogi”. Tom powstał dzięki współpracy badaczy z kilku polskich i zagranicznych ośrodków naukowych oraz akademickich, którzy dostrzegli potrzebę opisania najnowszych zmian zachodzących w językach słowiańskich pod wpływem przemian cywilizacyjno-kulturowych. W swoich badaniach językoznawcy koncentrują się na zagadnieniach leksykalnych, w szczególności na frazeologii utrwalającej różne aspekty życia dane...
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