Customs And Culture In Poland Under The Last Saxon King
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Customs and Culture in Poland under the Last Saxon King
Author | : Jędrzej Kitowicz |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9633862752 |
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Jędrzej Kitowicz was a parish priest in central Poland with a military and worldly past. In his later years, after putting the affairs of his parish in order, he composed a colorful chronicle of all aspects and walks of life under King August III. He seems to have written mostly from memory, creating in the process the most complete record that exists of society in eighteenth-century Poland. A man with omnivorous tastes, a keen sense of observation, and a wry—at times bawdy—sense of humor, Kitowicz's realistic and robust literary technique has been compared in its earthiness and evocativeness to Flemish genre painting. A noteworthy example of eighteenth-century writing and narrative talent, his Opis reveals an astounding visual memory and a modern ethnographer's eye for material culture. The present book consists of fifty-one chapters, including all of the most celebrated ones, from Father Kitowicz's Opis, complete with a comprehensive introduction. Topics include religious beliefs, customs and institutions, child-rearing, education, the judiciary and the military. Particularly vivid are the descriptions of the lives of the nobility, ranging from cooking through men's and women's wear to household entertainments and drinking habits. A commentary by the editor introduces each chapter.
Customs and Culture in Poland under the Last Saxon King
Author | : Jędrzej Kitowicz |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2019-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789633862766 |
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Jędrzej Kitowicz was a parish priest in central Poland with a military and worldly past. In his later years, after putting the affairs of his parish in order, he composed a colorful chronicle of all aspects and walks of life under King August III. He seems to have written mostly from memory, creating in the process the most complete record that exists of society in eighteenth-century Poland. A man with omnivorous tastes, a keen sense of observation, and a wry—at times bawdy—sense of humor, Kitowicz’s realistic and robust literary technique has been compared in its earthiness and evocativeness to Flemish genre painting. A noteworthy example of eighteenth-century writing and narrative talent, his Opis reveals an astounding visual memory and a modern ethnographer’s eye for material culture. The present book consists of fifty-one chapters, including all of the most celebrated ones, from Father Kitowicz’s Opis, complete with a comprehensive introduction. Topics include religious beliefs, customs and institutions, child-rearing, education, the judiciary and the military. Particularly vivid are the descriptions of the lives of the nobility, ranging from cooking through men’s and women’s wear to household entertainments and drinking habits. A commentary by the editor introduces each chapter.
Spiritual Criminals
Author | : Michelle M. Nickerson |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2024-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226828046 |
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A surprising look at the 28 Catholic radicals who raided a draft board in 1971—and got away with it. When the FBI arrested twenty-eight people in connection to a break-in at a Camden, New Jersey, draft board in 1971, the Bureau celebrated. The case should have been an easy victory for the department—the perpetrators had been caught red-handed attempting to destroy conscription documents for draftees into the Vietnam War. But the results of the trial surprised everyone, and in the process shook the foundations of American law, politics, and religion. In Spiritual Criminals, Michelle M. Nickerson shares a complex portrait of the Camden 28, a passionate group of grassroots religious progressives who resisted both their church and their government as they crusaded against the Vietnam War. Founded by priests, nuns, and devout lay Catholics, members of this coalition accepted the risks of felony convictions as the cost of challenging the nation’s military-industrial complex and exposing the illegal counterintelligence operations of the FBI. By peeling away the layers of political history, theological traditions, and the Camden 28’s personal stories, Nickerson reveals an often-unseen spiritual side of the anti-war movement. At the same time, she probes the fractures within the group, detailing important conflicts over ideology, race, sex, and gender that resonate in the church and on the political Left today.
The Jews in Poland and Russia
Author | : Antony Polonsky |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781789627800 |
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A comprehensive survey—socio-political, economic, and religious—of Jewish life in Poland and Russia. Wherever possible, contemporary Jewish writings are used to illustrate how Jews felt and reacted to new situations and ideas.
Special Report of the Select Committee on Communist Aggression
Author | : Etats-Unis. House of representatives. Select committee on communist aggression |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433038804583 |
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Special Report of the Select Committee on Communist Aggression
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Aggression |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015081994553 |
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An Outline History of Polish Applied Art
Author | : Zdzisław Żygulski |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Art, Polish |
ISBN | : UOM:39015050995862 |
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