Tradycyjne funkcje czasopisma naukowego a współczesne technologie komunikacyjne

Since mid-17th century, the scholarly journal was the most important medium of communication within the community of scholars. It also has a number of other functions, such as quality control, archiving, and recognition of authors. The necessity of journals for the development of science and scholarship has been questioned, also from the perspective of cultural anthropology. Some of its functions can already be replaced with other solutions, made available by new information and communication technologies. A number of proposals for a new formula of the journal do not, however, ensure proper fulfilment of all its traditional functions. It seems both important and interesting to look at the scholarly procedures related to publishing in journals as a ritual strengthening self-identification and integration of a scholarly subcommunity related to a particular research area and methodological school.Czasopismo naukowe stanowi od połowy XVII wieku najważniejsze medium komunikacji w społeczności uczonych. Spełnia ono również wiele innych funkcji, takich jak selekcja jakościowa, archiwizacja i przynoszenie uznania autorom. Konieczność istnienia czasopisma dla rozwoju nauki była kwestionowana, również z pozycji antropologii kulturowej. Część z jego funkcji można już obecnie zastąpić innymi rozwiązaniami, pojawiającymi się wraz z rozwojem technologii informacyjnych i komunikacyjnych. Różne propozycje stworzenia nowej formuły czasopisma nie zapewniają właściwego spełniania jego wszystkich dotychczasowych funkcji. Szczególnie ważna i ciekawa wydaje się możliwość spojrzenia na procedury nauki związane z publikowaniem w czasopismach jako na rytuał, który utrwala poczucie tożsamości i integrację części społeczności uczonych związanej z określonym obszarem badawczym i szkołą metodologiczną

Okolice bibliotek. Nauki humanistyczne w nowym świecie cyfrowym

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Nowe media w bibliotece : materiały z polsko-niemieckiej konferencji bibliotekarzy, Zielona Góra 14-16 kwietnia 2004 = Neue Medien in der Bibliothek : Materialien aus der deutsch-polnischen Konferenz der Bibliothekaren und Bibliothekarinnen, Zielona Góra den 14-16. April 2004

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The myth of Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) as a candidate to the Polish throne and the circumstances of his visit to Poland

Sir Philip Sidney was one of the most important gures in Elizabethan England. An outstanding poet, courtier, diplomat and knight, he has been a subject of research for many generations of scholars. Some authors state that Sidney received a proposal to become a candidate for the Polish elective throne but refused because the Queen did not agree. is story can be traced back to a short biography of him written by Robert Naunton in ca. 1630, but the ultimate source was the elegy on the death of Sidney written by Robert Dowe. Addressed to an anonymous “Polish friend”, it proposed Sidney could have become a great king, had he not been killed in battle. It was clearly a poetic metaphor rather than a statement of fact. Nevertheless, a number of scholars still believe that Sidney was approached with the proposal by Olbracht Łaski when he visited London and was received with unprecedented splendour by Elizabeth I. Even though the reasons for Łaski’s visit are still unclear, there are many arguments against such a hypothesis. Nevertheless, Sidney was greatly interested in the Polish political system (as can be gleaned from his correspondence) and eventually visited Cracow in 1574, at the invitation of Marcin Leśniowolski. e last part of the paper is an attempt at identifying the house in which Sidney stayed and it is argued that it must have been the same house in which John Dee later intended to stay (probably on Sidney’s advice), but changed his mind. e house belonged to one Pernus, whose rst name was not recorded by Dee. A detailed analysis of several members of that patrician family shows that it must have been Paweł Pernus, who studied at Heidelberg and later held high civic o ces in Cracow. He owned several houses, but it seems that the most probable identi cation of the one in which Sidney stayed is the house at Floriańska 11, which was also occasionally visited by Edward Kelley during his and John Dee’s later stay in Cracow

Eerie virtue – Lords of Kórnik within the circle of Poznań freemasons

Eerie virtue – Lords of Kórnik within the circle of Poznań freemasons The collection of the Kórnik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences holds a number of rare and interesting books on freemasonry, including the first edition of Anderson’s Constitutions. Most of them were, however, purchased during the second half of the twentieth century. The only two items which are known to have belonged to Count Tytus Działyński (1796–1861) are a French manual of the Rite of Adoption of 1787 and a Polish anti-masonic pamphlet entitled Eerie virtue, undated but probably published in 1786 or the following year. It is the only known copy of it, which is one of the reasons for preparing a new edition of its text. The Castle Museum holdings also have rare objects of freemasonic interest, namely four loge badges of early nineteenth century. The present paper is the first attempt at identifying those lodges and ascribe the badges to members of the Działyński family, the heirs of Kórnik. The masonic activities of Ignacy Działyński (1754–1797), the uncle of Tytus, are well known, but his brother Ksawery’s (1756–1819) membership in the fraternity has only now been confirmed. It is argued that three of the badges belonged to him, because their respective lodges did not exist during Ignacy’s lifetime. The fourth badge most probably belonged to Tytus Działyński, who may have been introduced to freemasonry in his youth by his father. The research on these items evolved into a broader re-examination of the early history of freemasonry in Poland, which disproved a number of statements made in the monumental work of Ludwik Hass. Most importantly, it is showed that the Red Fraternity (Confrérie Rouge) of 1721 was not a freemasonic body (as claimed by Hass and now widespread in historical literature), and that the earliest documented Polish lodge was established in Poznań around 1735 (there may have been one operated by foreigners in Warsaw in 1729, but the information comes from much later and questionable tradition). Two appendices contain an edition of Eerie virtue and genealogical tables showing close family relationships of the Działyńskis of Kórnik with eminent Polish freemasons, including all except one Grand Masters of the Grand Orient of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Traditional functions of scholarly journals and modern communication technologies

Czasopismo naukowe stanowi od połowy XVII wieku najważniejsze medium komunikacji w społeczności uczonych. Spełnia ono również wiele innych funkcji, takich jak selekcja jakościowa, archiwizacja i przynoszenie uznania autorom. Konieczność istnienia czasopisma dla rozwoju nauki była kwestionowana, również z pozycji antropologii kulturowej. Część z jego funkcji można już obecnie zastąpić innymi rozwiązaniami, pojawiającymi się wraz z rozwojem technologii informacyjnych i komunikacyjnych. Różne propozycje stworzenia nowej formuły czasopisma nie zapewniają właściwego spełniania jego wszystkich dotychczasowych funkcji. Szczególnie ważna i ciekawa wydaje się możliwość spojrzenia na procedury nauki związane z publikowaniem w czasopismach jako na rytuał, który utrwala poczucie tożsamości i integrację części społeczności uczonych związanej z określonym obszarem badawczym i szkołą metodologiczną.Since mid-17th century, the scholarly journal was the most important medium of communication within the community of scholars. It also has a number of other functions, such as quality control, archiving, and recognition of authors. The necessity of journals for the development of science and scholarship has been questioned, also from the perspective of cultural anthropology. Some of its functions can already be replaced with other solutions, made available by new information and communication technologies. A number of proposals for a new formula of the journal do not, however, ensure proper fulfilment of all its traditional functions. It seems both important and interesting to look at the scholarly procedures related to publishing in journals as a ritual strengthening self-identification and integration of a scholarly subcommunity related to a particular research area and methodological school

"Learn to restrain your mouth": Alchemical rumours and their historiographical afterlives

From around 1700 onwards, a number of sensationalist claims regarding adepts of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries began to appear in alchemical literature. They eventually made their way into standard works of historiography and continue to be repeated as factual. Yet the source for these rumours, a poem attributed to Martinus de Delle, supposedly a chamberlain of Emperor Rudolf II, has largely escaped scrutiny. The only surviving manuscript version currently known is here edited and translated in full for the first time. In the introductory essay, we call into question the existence of De Delle. Through scrutiny of the portrayals of alchemists within the poem, we propose that the author may have been an assayer in Prague. We then draw attention to the roles and effects of rumours within both the history and historiography of alchemy and argue for the importance of taking alchemical gossip seriously