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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Author / Creator: | Kitowicz, Jędrzej, author. |
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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 |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11875735 |
Table of Contents:
- Religious denominations in Poland
- On piety
- The hospital of the baby Jesus
- The maiden canonesses
- On manger scenes
- Floral sunday
- Ash Wednesday: dark matins
- The passion service and the flagellants
- Easter processions and the entombment ceremony
- The resurrection ceremony and Corpus Christi procession
- Easter Monday and St. John's Eve
- Child-rearing
- The education of children past the age of seven
- Public schools
- On student privileges
- How Dabrowski lost his head
- On the Sejms
- Eating and drinking at the Sejmiks vetting delegates
- The marshal's courts
- On torture
- The crown tribunals
- The singlesticks circle
- Deputival honors and parades
- The conclusion of the tribunals
- The Radom Commission
- The Crown Foot Guard
- The company circle
- The company deputation for tax collection
- The march of the hussar and armored companies
- Foreign-style regiments
- The hetmans
- The sich and the haidamaks
- On orders
- Old-fashioned cookery
- New-fashioned cookery
- Noble tables and banquets
- On the potato
- Of beds and bedding
- On noble palaces and homes
- On costume or dress
- Women's wear
- Of snuff and snuff boxes
- Of bags and watches, rings and pins
- Household entertainments
- Of carnivals and kuligs
- Masked balls
- Of drinks and drinking
- On the more famous drunkards
- Of carriages and conveyances
- Public convocations
- On peasant customs.