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Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, by Gary K. Waite. European Culture and Society series. Houndmills and Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan 2003, viii, 284 pp. $90.00 US [...]

The English Civil War saw an explosion in the production of printed material. Booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, and ballads of all types and covering all manner of subjects appeared in their thousands. Indeed, the number of titles printed during this period surpassed 2,000 per year. Among these we find a large category of prints denouncing religious heresy and perverse behaviors. The most elaborate of these was Thomas Edwards’s Gangraena, which ran to several thousand pages in length and spanned three consecutive volumes. In this article, the author looks at various religious sects in England and aspects of their beliefs and behaviors to examine how the Restoration England of Charles II tried to cure its population of unorthodox and perverse religious ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last fifty or so years, Grand Tour has become a very popular and extensively researched phenomenon. Although mainstream researchers have analyzed various aspects of the Grand Tour, they have tended to adopt a narrow definition limited to the experiences of young English gentlemen undertaking a study tour of Italy and France. This article poses a somewhat provocative question: was the Grand Tour feasible as a study tour of an English gentleman visiting Poland‑Lithuania? Based on contemporary travel writing, the author reveals the challenges and the difficult logistics of such an undertaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800, edited by Francisco Bethencourt and Diogo Ramada Curto. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xx, 536 pp. $90.00 US (cloth), $34.95 US (paper). Looking at my [...]

It has not been common, in the last fifty years, for Polish historians to undertake original research on English history, so the publication of Mariusz Markiewicz's Polityka gospodarcza i spoteczna [...]

This article examines the role of the term “corruption” as used in the propaganda prints on the eve of the English Civil Wars in the 17th century. The term has many meanings, and today we probably think first of corruption as bribery, lobbying and illegal payments to achieve certain aims. This meaning does appear in the discussed publications, but corruption as decay and destruction is more popular by far. Many contemporary leafl ets utilise it to describe the position of the Anglican Church in the first half of the ‘century of revolution'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is the aim of historical geography? Can a historian appreciate its results? In his Trade and Urban Development in Poland. An Economic Geography of Cracow, from its Origins to [...]

Puritans and Puritanism are terms commonly used in the Polish language. Yet when one seeks to answer their meaning, a popular version of pious, religious and moral religious folk, dressed like the well known Amish, comes to mind. Moreover, Puritanism in Poland is probably more often associated with the English colonies in North America, than 16th century England. In the article, the author presents the plethora of definitions of the term to be found in Polish history textbooks. Very often they present Puritans as an organized movement, even society, which caused the 17th century English civil war. Bringing forth the most recent understanding of the term, the author subsequently presents the newest, and in fact the only, publication on Puritans released in the Polish language. It is a book by Joel R. Beeke and Randall J. Pederson, which was translated and presented to the readers in 2010. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An introduction is presented to the issue of the journal that discusses demographic change, ethnic history, and voluntary associations in central European cities.

An introduction is presented which discusses the changes of the journal, including the inclusion of scholars in its editorial efforts to meet the changing world of science, implementation of double blind peer review before an article is published, and the inclusion of contributions in English.