Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej

Vol. 62 No. 3 (2014)

Published: 2014-07-01

The papers of this issue focus on diverse „death professionals” from the late Middle Ages till the years just after the Second World War, in Poland and neighbouring countries (Kingdom of Bohemia). The authors were interested, among others, in: executioners – experts in skilled administering of death; clerks preparing last wills and testaments in a proper, legal form; clergy and laymen participating in various funeral rituals and ceremonies.

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Studies and Materials

Witnesses of death: on late-mediaeval testaments from Prague

Kateřina Jísová

317-320

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Za tu sumu jeden kámen hrobník mramorove…: the commissions of the stonemason Vincent Strašryba of Breslau in the second half of 16th century

Michaela Hrubá

321-328

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Writing last wills in Lviv in the late Middle Ages: clerks, prices, circumstances

Bogdana Petryszak

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The writers of the testaments registered in the first book of Pułtusk consistory testaments (1509–1518)

Ewa Kobylińska

336-344

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Oral last wills made in the presence of municipal officials in Knyszyn at the turn of the 18th c. - Texts authored by Testators or by Clerks?

Łukasz Gołaszewski

345-366

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Plague gravediggers in Polish towns in the 16th–18th century

Andrzej Karpiński

367-378

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Multi Medici, multa funera: the negative stereotype of the physician in the 17th–18th century

Elżbieta Nowosielska

379-388

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The participation of religious brotherhoods in the funerals of burghers in Cracow in the 17th century

Marcin Gadocha

389-401

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Municipal and Military Executioners in Silesia and Upper Lusatia in the 16th–18th century

Daniel Wojtucki

403-419

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The burial ceremony as presented in funeral prints from the 17th and 18th c. (selected aspects)

Urszula Kicińska

421-429

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Accounts of funeral costs in the Norbertine convent in Zwierzyniec (17th–18th c.)

Olga Miriam Przybyłowicz

431-440

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The functioning of Catholic country parish cemeteries before the partitions of Poland : illustrated with the deaneries of Nowa Góra, Skała and Proszowice near Cracow

Mateusz Wyżga

441-462

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Cemetery workers and companies connected with the functioning of cemeteries in Gdańsk in the second half of the 19th century

Anna Krüger

463-472

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Burying the poor by the Social Welfare Section of the Municipal Administration in Gdańsk

Klaudiusz Grabowski

473-479

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Archived Issue

Vol. 62 No. 3 (2014)

Studies and Materials

Witnesses of death: on late-mediaeval testaments from Prague

Za tu sumu jeden kámen hrobník mramorove…: the commissions of the stonemason Vincent Strašryba of Breslau in the second half of 16th century

Writing last wills in Lviv in the late Middle Ages: clerks, prices, circumstances

The writers of the testaments registered in the first book of Pułtusk consistory testaments (1509–1518)

Oral last wills made in the presence of municipal officials in Knyszyn at the turn of the 18th c. - Texts authored by Testators or by Clerks?

Plague gravediggers in Polish towns in the 16th–18th century

Multi Medici, multa funera: the negative stereotype of the physician in the 17th–18th century

The participation of religious brotherhoods in the funerals of burghers in Cracow in the 17th century

Municipal and Military Executioners in Silesia and Upper Lusatia in the 16th–18th century

The burial ceremony as presented in funeral prints from the 17th and 18th c. (selected aspects)

Accounts of funeral costs in the Norbertine convent in Zwierzyniec (17th–18th c.)

The functioning of Catholic country parish cemeteries before the partitions of Poland : illustrated with the deaneries of Nowa Góra, Skała and Proszowice near Cracow

Cemetery workers and companies connected with the functioning of cemeteries in Gdańsk in the second half of the 19th century

Burying the poor by the Social Welfare Section of the Municipal Administration in Gdańsk