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Caught in a Matrix of Factors: A Pilot Study of Female Retirees Receiving Below-Minimum Pension Payments
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-08-04)
universal pension system, which amounted to less than the so-called ‘lowest retirement pension’ being granted at that time. The analysis makes recourse to the concept of employment career and its connection to retirement to identify various life-course...
A Legal History of Legal History in England and Wales
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022-06-30)
This article explores the development of the study of legal history as a subject in the law schools of England and Wales. It outlines changes in university education more generally, and in legal scholarship in particular ...
The problem of the abolition of slavery and maritime rights on U.S. vessels with regards to British American relations in the first half of the 19th century
; Daszynska, Jolanta 
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-30)
The article analyses the struggle of Anglo-American relations connected to slaves and maritime rights on the sea from 1831 to 1842. The study is based on monographs, reports, treaties and correspondences between the two ...
Kłopoty z niedźwiedziem: Kłopoty z niedźwiedziem. Rosja w niemieckim, austriackim i szwajcarskim dyskursie medialnym od XIX do XXI wieku
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-08-31)
W książce omówiono dawne i współczesne niemieckojęzyczne dyskursy medialne o Rosji, argumentując, że warto je studiować ze względu na kluczową rolę odgrywaną przez Niemcy i Rosję w stosunkach międzynarodowych. Przekaz ...
Narrating Emotions: Towards Deeper Understanding
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-01-31)
Qualitative research aims at unwrapping the ordinary and the exceptional in order to bring us closer to a complete description and interpretation of life. People’s narratives are particularly effective in revealing deeper ...
Rethinking Terror and Horror with Plato, Aristotle, and Shakespeare
(Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2025)
This article addresses a blank spot in Gothic studies and in studies of ways in which literature purveys terror, horror, and fear. In the last decades, Gothic studies, including Jacek Mydla’s book, have broadened their ...
Od redaktorów: Wokół rewizyt badawczych i reinterpretacji socjologicznych danych jakościowych
(Uniwersytet Łódzki, 2019)
The article is an introduction to the collection of texts presented in this issue on various prospects and opportunities for re-using data from qualitative social research. We reflect on how such re-analyses influence the ...
Foreign cuisine in Poland. Adapting names and dishes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-12-23)
One of the more interesting layers of vocabulary in Polish are lexical items related to cuisine, sometimes, though rarely, referred to as gastronyms. In this text I intend to mainly discuss the names which exist at the ...
The Pedagogical College at the Jagiellonian University (1921–1952): Origins, Founders, Significance
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2020-11-06)
The establishment and the activities of the Pedagogical College at the Jagiellonian University was an important event in the history of Polish pedagogy because this fact accelerated the process of its developing as a ...
From Pausanias to Baedeker and Trip Advisor: Textual proto-tourism and the engendering of tourism distribution channels
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2021-06-11)
The key aim of this article is to provide an interdisciplinary look at tourism and its diachronic textual threads bequeathed by the ‘proto-tourist’ texts of the Greek travel author Pausanias. Using the periegetic, travel ...