Book versus Power

Contents: Edward Potkowski: The Book in the World of Politics: Early Literary Culture in Poland, 10th-12th Century - Jacek Soszynski: Papal Plenitude of Power and World History: Papal Political Ideology in the Chronicle of Martin the Pole - Krzysztof Ozóg: The Concept «rex illiteratus quasi asinus coronatus» in Late Medieval Cracovian Writings - Anna Kamler: The Jagiellons vis-a-vis the Book and the Education of the Nobility - Jan Dziegielewski: The Polish Sejm Debating over a Work of History: The Case of 'De bello Moschovitico' by Reinhold Heidenstein, in 1587 - Dariusz Kuzmina: The Jesuits as a Monastic Community Supportive of Secular Power in Reinforcing Catholicism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-17th Century - Jaroslaw Kurkowski: Historiography as an Instrument of Politics in the 18th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Katarzyna Seroka: The Polish Library in Paris, 1838-1893 - Iwona H. Pugacewicz: Politics, Power, and the Batignolles School Library - Jacek Puchalski: Book, Press, and Book Market Research in the Service of Polish Government Agencies: The Institute for Scientific Investigation of Communism in Warsaw, 1930-1937 - Agnieszka Chamera-Nowak: Books in the Hands of Stalinists (1948-1956): Policies, their Implementation, and Results - Dariusz Jarosz: Communist Authorities, the Society, and the Book in Poland, 1945-1989: Mutual Relationships - Malgorzata Ptasinska: Forbidden Books: The Polish Instytut Literacki in Paris and the Editorial Policies of Jerzy Giedroyc, 1946-1989 - Marek Tobera: Polish Government Administration and the Professional Press Dedicated to the Book Market, 1989-2000.

Jacek Soszynski is Professor of History at the University of Warsaw. His field of expertise is medieval historiography and the history of ideas during the Middle Ages.
Agnieszka Chamera-Nowak is Assistant Professor of Library Science at the University of Warsaw. She specialises in the history of the book in the early modern period and the twentieth century.