Customs and culture in Poland under the last Saxon King : the major texts of Opis obyczajów za panowania Augusta III, Description of customs during the reign of August III, by Jedrzej Kitowicz, 1728-1804 /

Customs and culture in Poland under the last Saxon King : the major texts of Opis obyczajów za panowania Augusta III, Description of customs during the reign of August III, by Jedrzej Kitowicz, 1728-1804 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kitowicz, Jędrzej, author.
Uniform title:	Opis obyczajów i zwyczajów za panowania Augusta III. English
Imprint:	Budapest, Hungary ; New York, NY, USA : Central European University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	396 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Manners and customs. Poland -- Social life and customs -- To 1795. Poland.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11875735

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Other authors / contributors:	Swan, Oscar E., translator, writer of preface, writer of added commentary.
ISBN:	9789633862759 9633862752
Notes:	Translation of: Opis obyczajów i zwyczajów za panowania Augusta III. Translated from the Polish.
Summary:	"Jedrzej Kitowicz was a parish priest in central Poland with a military and worldly past. In his later years, after putting the affairs of his parish in order, he composed a colorful chronicle of all aspects and walks of life under King August III. He seems to have written mostly from memory, creating in the process the most complete record that exists of society in eighteenth-century Poland. A man with omnivorous tastes, a keen sense of observation, and a wry--at times bawdy--sense of humor, Kitowicz's realistic and robust literary technique has been compared in its earthiness and evocativeness to Flemish genre painting. A noteworthy example of eighteenth-century writing and narrative talent, his Opis reveals an astounding visual memory and a modern ethnographer's eye for material culture. The present book consists of fifty-one chapters, including all of the most celebrated ones, from Father Kitowicz's Opis, complete with a comprehensive introduction. Topics include religious beliefs, customs and institutions, child-rearing, education, the judiciary and the military. Particularly vivid are the descriptions of the lives of the nobility, ranging from cooking through men's and women's wear to household entertainments and drinking habits. A commentary by the editor introduces each chapter"--

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