Biography was a prominent component of Maria Bogucka’s research output, encompassing reviews, encyclopaedic entries and extended articles. She would also publish four biographical monographs. Bogucka was very eager to include in her biographies, especially those relating to women rulers, colourful accounts, expressive assessments and controversial opinions. Her biographical writing was ‘journalistic’ in essence, and looked to make emotive links with the heroes and heroines of her studies. Sensitive to economic issues and changes which had taken place in the mentality of societies, Bogucka was also interested in writing biographical accounts of representatives of the bourgeois elites. Biography in Bogucka’s oeuvre allowed her to analyse historical figures’ lives insightfully, thus exploring outstanding individuals’ personal fates.
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Mintmaster Eberhard and his Friends: Several notes on the beginnings of Gallus Town: Although Gallus Town has already been devoted great attention in the existing specialised literature, there has so far been lacking an attempt to identify the burghers, who besides Mintmaster Eberhard shared in its foundation. Unlike the existing research, the study attempts to prove that Gallus Town was founded not only by Mintmaster Eberhard and people, who participated in the extraction and treatment of silver, but also members constituting the Prague patriciate, because the documents preserved show that in the Czech milieu it is not possible to distinguish between the “mining” (in the sense of specialists in the extraction of minerals) class and the class of the Prague urban elites. In fact, both supposed groups were a unified class, which was undoubtedly connected by family or business ties and the centre of all of their diversified activities was Prague, the headquarters and residential agglomeration of the ruling dynasty. It is also evident that Gallus Town of Prague did not comprise a legal or otherwise independent part of the Old Town, because already the first testimony of the written sources proves that the Prague burghers headquartered at Gallus Marketplace and Old Town Square appear as witnesses of one common Old (Larger) Town of Prague. The reeve was also common, who performed his powers over the entire town.
This article explores the urban elites of Lviv during its autonomous era under Habsburg rule. The elites included not only state and municipal officials but also ‘self-proclaimed’ groups of local patriots, whose main point of reference was their city and maintaining its respectability. The issue of the preservation of secular monuments in the city (mainly the Old Town) is dealt with, as well as the history of selected grassroots associations, like the Society of the Friends of Old Lviv and the Society for the Embellishment of the City of Lviv and Its Surroundings. The author argues that by investigating the institutions which took care of the physical space of the city and its buildings, it is possible to delve into the identity of the elites in question. He further argues that it was not only the imperial and national identity that was reflected in the sources, but also a purely local one, which points to the issue of localness as an important category of research.
Celem artukułu jest analiza użyteczności badań politologicznych różnych sposobów naukowego opisu miasta. Sposoby te są oceniane przez pryzmat badań nad zachowaniami wyborczymi, elitami miejskimi, funkcjonowaniem i rozwojem miast. W pracy wskazano problemy, jakie – szczególnie w badaniach porównawczych – rodzi sama definicja miasta. Ukazano też pułapki związane z utożsamieniem miasta z jednostką administracyjną. W konkluzji zaproponowano wykorzystanie metafory węzła jako najbardziej adekwatnego sposobu opisu miasta i jego powiązań z otoczeniem.
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The text analyzes usefulness of various scientific ways of describing cities for the political science research. These ways are verified in context of the study of electoral behaviour, urban elites and city development. The article points the problems related to definition of a city, especially in comparative research. It shows traps associated with identifying “city” with an administrative unit. The conclusion suggests the use of node metaphor as the most appropriate way of describing the city and its connections with the environment.
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