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author’s opinion, is the crowning piece of old Polish royal panegyrics. Obremski also analyses Rubinkowski’s attitude to the Thorn tumult of 1724. Much space is devoted in the book to the Chronicie of Polish Monarchs. The second part of the book contains some additions to Rubinkowski’s biography. The book is supplemented with appendices containing some of Rubinkowski’s short studies. (DD)

Marian Surdacki, Urzędów w XVII i XVIII wieku. Miasto — społeczeństwo — życie codzienne [Urzędów in the 17th and 18th Centuries: The Town — Its Inhabitants — Everyday Life], Lublin 2008, Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawia II, 660 pp., 316 ills., appendix, bibl., index of persons, sum. in English, series: Źródła i Monografie

This is a monograph of Urzędów, a typical town in the Lublin region during the Old Polish period. Despite the chronological restriction in the title, the author starts his reflections with the 1560s and brings them up to the 19th century. The book is based on over a dozen municipal books preserved in the State Archives in Lublin and on church sources kept in Cracow and Lublin. In the first part of the work, the author depicts the layout of the town, the size of the population and its religious and socio-occupational structure. He describes how the town was run and the functioning of the individual structures of power, including the council and the courts of law. A separate part is devoted to the economy, that is, trade, handicrafts and the sale and purchase of land. The next chapter concerns the role played by starosts in the town’s life. Surdacki also discusses the town’s finances and the taxes paid by the townsmen. He depicts the structure of the parishes and of the clergy. A separate part is devoted to the religious brotherhoods exist-ing in the town and to religious ceremonies. The other chapters concern schools, cducation, culture and social assistance as wcll as the everyday life and customs of the inhabitants of Urzędów. A smali chapter discusses political life. The book is cquipped with an appendix which contains a list of the municipal officials of the town, indicating the name of the Office and the time when each official was employed. (DD)

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Jerzy Kukulski, Państwo — chłopi — kościół w okresie wielkich reform na ziemiach Królestwa Polskiego w latach 1768-1890 (The State — the Peasants — and the Church during the Great Reforms Carried Out in the Territories of the Polish Kingdom in 1768-1890], Piotrków Trybunalski 2007, Naukowe Wydawnictwo Piotrkowskie, 509 pp., tables, appendices, index of persons

The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with relations between the State and the peasants and the second part with relations between the State and the church in the territories which in 1815 became the Congress