ACTA POLONIAE HISTORICA
LXXXI (2000)

Contents

STUDIES
Memory and Collective Identity: How Do Societies Construct and Administer Their Past?

Jerzy  T o p o l s k i,
  Myths in Research into the Past
5

Henryk S a m s o n o w i c z,
Ttýe Orlgln of Poland, or Images of Our Own  Beginnigs
19

Roman  W a p i n s k i,
Gdansk in Polish Political Mythology - the Formation of Political Consciousness 
29

Family, Marriage and Property Rights

Tomasz J u r e k,
Married to a Foreigner. Wives and Daughters of German Knights in Silesia During the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century
37

Maria B o g u c k a,
Marriage in Early Modern Poland 
51

Teresa  Z i e l i n s k a,
Noblewomen’s Property Rights in 16th-18th c. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
79

The Baltic Area in History

Jerzy T r z o s k a,
Gdansk on the Economic Map of Early Modern Europe 
91

Stanislaw S a l m o n o w i c z,
The Culture of Eastern Pomerania at the Threshold of the Modern Era 
117

The History of Disease

Anna R u t k o w s k a-P l a c h c i n s k a,
The "Fire" Disease and the Anthonites in Medieval Western and Central Europe 
145

Andrzej W y r o b l s z,
Misericordia pestis tempore. Attitudes and Behaviour  During Pestilences in Early Modern Poland (16th-l8th Centuries)
165

The Openning of Archives and the History of Communism

Wojciech M a t e r s k  i,
Polish Issues in Newly Opened Resources of Post-Soviet Archives
183

REVIEWS

"Studia Judaica" (Stefan G a s i o r o w s k i); Christopher March Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England. Holding Thelr Peace (Tomasz W i s l i c z); Henry Phillips. Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France (Tomasz W i s I i c z); Jerzy Jedlicki, A Suburb of Europe. Nineteenth-Century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization (Magdalena M i c i n s k a); Diana Siebert, Bäuerliche Alttagsstrategien in der Belarussischen SSR (1921-1941). Die Zerstörung patriarchalischer Famillienwirtsctraft (Wlodzimierz M e d r z e c k i) 
213

NEWS

Residences in Medieval and Modern Times (Edward O p a l i n s k i) 
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