Józef Andrzej Gierowski i Jacek Staszewski – listowne rozmowy uczonych o czasach saskich

• Authors: Stanisław Roszak , Agnieszka Wieczorek

Title variants

EN

Józef Andrzej Gierowski and Jacek Staszewski – letter talks conversations by scholars about Saxon times

Abstracts

EN

Correspondence was an essential form of communication in the world of the humanities in the 1960s and 1970s. The letters exchanged between Józef Andrzej Gierowski and Jacek Staszewski exemplify the scholars’ discussion of Saxon times. This collection is at the same time a reflection of the main currents of research on political history and cultural history of the 18th century. Simultaneously, it is a testimony to the struggle of historians with the black legend of the reign of August II and August III. The article presents the nature of these conversations and the topics discussed by the scholars: an exchange of views on resources in European archives, the reigns of August II and August III, a discussion of the Enlightenment, reviews of subsequent monographs and doctoral theses prepared at seminars in Kraków and Toruń. The correspondence between the two scholars is evidence not only of a shared passion, an interest in the Saxon era, neglected for many decades and marked by a black legend, but also of an intellectual exchange between the two humanists, which in time developed into a friendship.

Keywords

PL

Józef Andrzej Gierowski; Jacek Staszewski; korespondencja; czasy saskie

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historyka. Studia Metodologiczne
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 53
• Pages: 165-180

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Stanisław Roszak

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

• https://orcid.org/0000000260293672

author

Agnieszka Wieczorek

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

• https://orcid.org/000000020091596X

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/hsm.2023.147364

Biblioteka Nauki

56556459