Since the end of the twentieth Century the traditional interpretation of Catharism, assuming it’s Eastern roots and dualist character is the object of a harsh criticism, formulated by the deconstructionist scholars. The moderated version of their new interpretation assu...

Celem rozważań jest charakterystyka zjawiska poszerzania się zakresu regulacji zaliczanych do rolnego prawa gruntowego, wynikającego z nowelizacji ustawy o kształtowaniu ustroju rolnego dokonanej w 2016 r. oraz jego wpływu na praktykę notarialną obrotu nieruchomościami....

The article is a short report on the restoration work carried out at Ojców Castle in 2018–2019. The works, conducted after many years of neglect, included the renovation of the gatehouse and the tower, as well as adaptation of the latter for visiting. Durin...

The Lingsar Temple and its festival belong to Lombok’s Muslims and Hindus. The relations between these two religious groups are often characterised in line with the idealised pluralism of Indonesia’s national "unity in diversity" motto. In this context, I studied the ar...

Language in the Creation Process of the New Regions of PolandThe article concerns the influence of state reform on the evolution of regional identity. The aim of the article is to describe the role of language in these changes. In 1999, sixteen large regions (voivodeshi...

From Formality to Familiarity: Greeting Formulas in Emails Written by Teachers to ParentsThe purpose of the article is the analysis of greeting formulas in emails written by teachers to parents. The linguistic material is based on 513 email messages sent to parents by m...

New Linguistic Behaviors in the Eldest Generation of Village InhabitantsThe objective of the paper is analysis of the eldest village inhabitants’ linguistic behaviors which result from the universalizing influence of general culture on folk language. The contemporary gl...

Polish Cities and Villages in the 21st Century: Blurring of the Borders, Languages and CulturesUp to the middle of the 20th century, big cities, as economic units and communities that were characterized by the very varied professional and social structure of their inhab...

This article aims to present three hypotheses about how the preaching treatise of the Catalan author, Francesc Eiximenis, entitled 'Ars praedicandi populo', ended up in Krakow in the library of Mikołaj Spycymir. For this purpose, three codices, which contain copies of t...

Double Portraits, 1939–1956: Memoirs of Polish Jewish Women From Soviet Russia During the first months following Germany’s attack on Poland, some members of the Jewish community managed to sneak away to the eastern frontiers of the country which had been invaded and ann...