Table of Contents

Contents: Preface: Trade, money, credit in the Baltic region: Amsterdam and the Baltic in the first half of the 17th century; The monetary crisis of the XVIIth century and its social and psychological consequences in Poland; Le commerce de Gdansk avec la péninsule Iberique à la charnière du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle; The role of the Baltic trade in European development from the XVIth to the XVIIIth centuries; Some aspects of commercial relations within the Baltic Region on the example of Gdansk-Stockholm trade in 1643; Dutch merchants' activities in Gdansk in the first half of the XVIIth century; Towns and Townspeople: Towns in Poland and the Reformation. Analogies and differences with other countries; Les villes et le développement de la culture sur l'exemple de la Pologne aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles; The towns of East-Central Europe from the 14th to the 17th century; The typology of Polish towns during the XVIth-XVIIIth centuries; Krakau-Warschau-Danzig. Funktionen und Wandel von Metropolen 1450-1650; Economic prosperity or recession and cultural patronage: the case of Gdansk in the XVIth-XVIIIth centuries; Health care and poor relief in Danzig (Gdansk): the 16th and first half of the 17th century; Town hall as symbol of power. Changes in the political and social functions of town hall in Gdansk till the end of the XVIIIth century; Social order, customs, mentality: Mentalität der Bürger von Gdansk im XVI.-XVII. Jahrhundert; Le geste dans la vie de la noblesse polonaise aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles; Social structures and customs in the early modern Poland; Work, time perception and leisure in an agricultural society: the case of Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries; Gender in the economy of a traditional agrarian society: the case of Poland in the XVIth-XVIIth centuries; The destruction of towns by natural disaster as reported in early modern newspapers; Index.