1st Edition
Customs and Culture in Poland under the Last Saxon King Selections from Opis obyczajów za panowania Augusta III by father Jedrzej Kitowicz, 1728-1804
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Central European University Press
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... Read more
Preface, Glossary of Commonly Used Terms, J?drzej Kitowicz: To the Reader, i. Religious Beliefs and Institutions of Piety, ii. Religious Customs and Ceremonies, iii. Child-Rearing and Early Education, iv. Legislature and the Judiciary, v. The Military, vi. Lives and Entertainments of the Nobility, vii. Peasant Life, Appendix: Reading Kitowicz in Context, Appendix: List of Texts Not Included, Index
Biography
Jedrzej Kitowicz (1728–1804) 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.
Oscar E. Swan is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh.
