Category

Sigismund II Augustus: a Renaissance portrait of a melancholic man

READ MORE

It seems he basked in the full glory of the Polish “golden age” from the moment of his birth. The firstborn, long-awaited royal son, and heir to the largest state in Central and Eastern Europe, almost a million kilometers long and stretching (it strokes Poles’ ego, this phrase, and we will hear more of it)…

Category:

Jan Kochanowski, Kalliope’s mountaineer

READ MORE

While writing biographies of great writers, we, often unconsciously, look for something unique, or characteristic about the individual path they pursued in their lives. This is probably due to a legacy of romanticism that we are not aware of. Thus we are facing some troubles looking at Jan Kochanowski in a different way. by Wojciech…

Category:
featured_ > > SEE ALL

Maria Skłodowska-Curie: The Star Of Radioactivity

(7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)
interviews_ > > SEE ALL

Beautiful minds. Extraordinary mathematicians from Lwów

An interview with Mariusz Urbanek, author of the book Genialni. Lwowska szkoła matematyczna (The Geniuses. Lwów School of Mathematics)
essays_ > > SEE ALL

Marian Małowist and Witold Kula: Polish leading figures of world historiography

Parallel Lives
reviews_ > > SEE ALL

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1733–1795: Light and Flame

Review of the book by Richard Butterwick