Przegląd Historyczny 2025/1. Historia kobiet

Przegląd Historyczny, CLVI 2025, Issue 1, Women’s History

Thirty-five years after Anna Żarnowska and Andrzej Szwarc published the first in a series of now classic volumes entitled ‘Kobieta i...’ (‘Woman and...’), we are dedicating a special issue to the history of women. The authors of the review articles assess the state of research on the history of women in different eras, diagnose the difficulties associated with it, and put forward their own research proposals. Other articles present detailed studies: on the sarcophagus of Vibia Afinia, wife of Emperor Trebonianus Gallus, the discourse on health and illness in the correspondence of women from the Radziwiłł family, the legal status of women in the Duchy of Warsaw, and female teachers in the Kingdom of Poland. The issue concludes with a debate on the historiography of women in the Middle Ages.

Keywords: women, women's history, epigraphic evidence, ancient Greece, Ludovisi Sarcophagus, magnate court, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Radziwiłł family, Duchy of Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland.