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After One Disaster Comes Another? Extraordinary Events and Their Lessons in the Croniche di Lucca
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-06-30)In the Croniche di Lucca, which covers the period of Lucca’s history from 1168 to 1424, we read about many natural disasters. We can read in detail about the lean years of 1181, 1284, 1330, 1348–1350, and 1400, and the ... -
The Beginnings of the Organisation of Polish Historical Science in Great Britain after World War II
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)After the defeat of September 1939, a large number of Polish historians found themselves, together with the army, scattered abroad. They lost their previous academic research base, aids and equipment, book collections, ... -
The Bored Cossack: The Way of a Ukrainian Warrior
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)The article examines Ukrainian folk paintings of Cossack Mamai as the most complete visual archetype of the Cossack, a professional warrior of the Early Modern period. It argues that Mamai’s static posture and melancholic ... -
Building Civil Society in Wartime: Opportunities and Challenges on the Example of the Military Crisis in Ukraine in 2014‒2023
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)The article examines the development of diverse forms of activism within Ukrainian society and how citizens have been mobilised in response to oppressive authorities and war. Although the war has triggered a profound ... -
Changing Craft in the Early Renaissance. Florentine Citizens and the Profession of Arms (1427–1430)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)Between the end of the 14th century and the beginning of the 15th century, the Republic of Florence was almost constantly engaged in war. As a result, public debt in a short time increased from 1 million to 3 million ... -
Community Resilience Dimensions of Agency and Human Values in the Response of Polish Border Communities to the Refugee Crisis Caused by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in 2022
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)This research aims to explore the role of community resilience in response to the refugee crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 by specifically studying two core dimensions of community ... -
A Comprehensive Examination of the 1852 Persian Military Manual: ‘General Regulations for the Exercises and Marches of the Infantry of the Esteemed Government of Iran’
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)This article deals with the study and analysis of an important Persian military manual, entitled ‘General Regulations for the Exercises and Marches of the Infantry of the Esteemed Government of Iran’ ( قواعد کلیه از برای ... -
The Concept of Occidentalism by Dmytro Dontsov as a Methodological Basis for Analysing the Contemporary Russia-Ukraine War
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)The concept of Occidentalism developed by Dmytro Dontsov serves as a significant analytical tool for understanding the Russia-Ukraine war (2014–2025), viewed as a confrontation between two fundamentally different civilisational ... -
Conveying the Tragedy of War Through Unconventional Photography Methods
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)This article analyses the specificity of conveying the tragedy of war through artistic photography. Comparing photos from the Vietnam War and the contemporary Russian-Ukrainian war illustrates how the range of figurative ... -
The Evolution of the Role of Mass Media in Wars – Media as a Tool, a Threat and a Side of the War
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-06-30)Released information can lead to the outbreak of war, such as ‘The Ems Telegram’. It can also cause changes in the actions of the ‘great and the small’ of this world, influence the perception of reality and lead to a ... -
An Examination of Sassanian Siege Warfare (3rd to 7th centuries CE)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)This article examines Sassanian siege warfare and technology in the domains of ballistae, ‘scorpions’, catapults, and battering rams. Sassanian siege warfare necessitated the use of protection/shielding for personnel (combat ... -
The Fate of the Brazilian Collection of the State Zoological Museum in Warsaw Before and During the Second World War (1939–1945)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-06-30)Before the Second World War, the State Zoological Museum in Warsaw was a dynamically functioning research institution, characterised by its rapidly growing collections of contemporary animals for scientific, educational ... -
Grand Tour Correspondence in the Time of War: The Early Stages of the War of the Spanish Succession in the Letters of Henry Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock and His Tutor Paul Rapin-Thoyras (1701–1702)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)Letters sent during a Grand Tour, an early modern educational journey, are often considered important sources for the history of tourism and travel, history of diplomacy or family relations. However, the example of the ... -
Hungarian Mercenaries in Italy in the 14th Century: An Analysis of a Mercenary Contract of 1361
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)Hungarian mercenaries began to operate in Italy in the 1340s. The reason for their appearance in the Kingdom of Naples was the planned dynastic link between the Neopolitan and the Hungarian branches of the Angevin family. ... -
Incorporation of Andriy Melnyk’s OUN into the Kharkiv Environment (1941–1943)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-06-30)Today, studying the spread of OUN activities, particularly those of the OUN(m), in Eastern Ukraine during the German-Soviet War is particularly relevant. This paper aims to highlight the work of the OUN(m) in Kharkiv during ... -
The Influence of France on the Economic Development of the Second Polish Republic in the First Years after Regaining Independence: An Outline of the Problem
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)This text aims to highlight the issue of building Polish-French economic relations in the first years after Poland regained independence. For the Polish state at that time, a key concern was securing French support in the ... -
Keeping the Memory Alive: Ukrainian Commemoration Practices in Public Spaces Amid the War with Russia in 2025
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025-12-30)On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, marking a dramatic escalation of the conflict that had been simmering since 2014. Russian troops advanced into Ukrainian territory from Russia, Belarus ... -
Military Engineers and Artillery Production in Milan Under the Sforza (1450–1535). Institutions, Professionalism, Techniques
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)The late 15th-century Milanese army boasted an impressive artillery park of several heavy bombards and a multitude of light field artillery pieces. Such war machines were manufactured and operated by the specialised personnel ... -
Military Migration as a Social Consequence of War. On the Example of the Hvizdets-Obertyn Campaign of 1531
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-30)Since the end of the Middle Ages, most of the wars fought by the Jagiellons were fought by enlisted soldiers, while every year they served in the permanent defence system (Polish: obrona potoczna) in the Ruthenian lands. ... -
Military Service of Knights, Vogts and Village Mayors in the Kingdom of Poland under the Reign of Władysław II Jagiełło: Legal Regulations
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2024-12-31)The reign of Władysław Jagiełło in Poland was highly significant. He not only established a new dynasty but also succeeded diplomatically and militarily in foreign policy. His forty-year reign was also a time of granting ...