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Publishing instructions for the series Geschichte im mitteleuropäischen Kontext

Volume 7

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not stray from basic formatting without a clear need – e.g., do not add headings, page
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fonts. Texts should be sent as a text file in *.rtf or *.docx format

Article structure

• Name, affiliation (in the original language), e-mail address, ORCID (full address, e.g.
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• Title (in bold and centred, also subheadings in bold and centred).

• Article (footnotes at the bottom of the page – only in abridged form).

• Abstract (max. 500 characters with spaces).

• Keywords (max. 5 phrases).

• Bibliography (divided into: Archival Sources; Printed Sources and Literature). Please
use the full bibliographic notation in the bibliography. Please do not translate entries
in the bibliography and do not use any abbreviations.
 • Illustrations: each illustration should be given in the form of a separate file with its
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• In footnotes, only use the abbreviated notation of printed sources and literature (this
also applies to articles from the Internet, e.g. Wikipedia).

• Indicating printed sources and literature: name of the first author or editor (in the
absence of these, only the first words of the title): the first words of the title and
possibly the volume/issue number (only if necessary, e.g. in the case of multi-volume
publications with the same title), page numbers directly referenced (or note number).
Eg. Töppen (ed.): Die Staatsverträge: Akten, 1, No. 95; Hirsch (ed.): Scriptores, 3, pp.
 400–401; Neitmann: Die Staatsverträge, pp. 169–170; Górski: Początki reprezentacji,
p. 141; Jóźwiak et al.: Wojna Polski i Litwy, p. 86; Kazimierz III Wielki, unpag.

• In the event of frequent reference to a specific publication or archival source, you are
encouraged to use simple and legible abbreviations, e.g. Archiwum Archidiecezji
Warmińskiej w Olsztynie: Archiwum Biskupie (further: AAW AB – plain font), sig. II
D 35/1; Archiv hlavního města Prahy: Magistrát hlavního města Prahy I., Protokoly
sborů městské správy / Knihy, 1787 Protokoly rady (further: APraha Protokoly), sig.
548/5, pp. 15–16.

• Abbreviations should be used consistently in the article.

• Please do not translate the names of institutions (e.g. archives, libraries) and the titles
of cited sources and publications.

• Page numbers in the article in English: p. 5, pp. 6–15.

• With consecutive capitalised citations, Ibidem, pp. 7–9. When the author is repeated:
Idem: or Eadem: Die Staatsverträge, pp. 7–9.

• In footnotes, please list a maximum of one author/editor, e.g. Jóźwiak et al.: Wojna
Polski i Litwy, p. 86.

• Number of pages: please do not use f or ff. Page numbers should be given exactly, e.g.
pp. 23–24 or pp. 52–55.

Abstract

Each article should be accompanied by a short abstract (maximum 500 characters with
spaces) in Polish (including the title) and in the language of the article. Abstracts will be
published in three languages: Polish, German and English (with titles).

Keywords

The topic of the article should be encapsulated in a few phrases (maximum five). Example:

Keywords: egodocuments; manuscripts; memories; early modern culture

Bibliography

• At the end of the article, there should be a list of all sources and literature that were
used when working on the article.

• The list should be divided into three parts: Archival Sources; Printed Sources;
Literature.

• Each item should end with a full stop.

• Arrangement: alphabetical, by surname or title (in the absence of authors' or editors'

names).

• Names of archives, libraries, etc. and titles of groups (collections), as well as titles of
all publications: in the bibliography and footnotes, please use the original language,
without translation.

• In the bibliography, use only the full record (including in the case of repetitions),
according to the following formula: surnames of all authors or editors along with first
names (if there are none, only the title): title, in: title of collective work/journal,
volume/issue number (if applicable), publication date, total page numbers (only for
articles). Examples below.

• In the bibliography and footnotes, separate the names of authors/editors with a slash
(not a comma). A sample bibliography entry (with names): Jóźwiak Sławomir /
Kwiatkowski Krzysztof / Szweda Adam / Szybkowski Sobiesław: Wojna Polski i
Litwy z zakonem krzyżackim w latach 1409–1411. 2010.

• In the case of long titles (e.g. old prints and manuscripts), the title may be shortened
by using […].

• Do not include the place where the work was published.

• Series titles are not given if the volume has a standalone title.

• Works published in magazines and collective works should be specified with “in:”.

• Please do not use abbreviations such as “Vol.”, “No.”, only Arabic numerals after the
title, before the date of publication, e.g. Czaja Roman: Gesellschaft und Landesherr im
Ordensland Preußen zu Beginn des 15. Jahrhunderts, in: Zapiski Historyczne, 75/4.
2011, pp. 19–31.
 • Texts from the Internet that are not copies of paper publications (in which case, please
cite the paper version), please cite as articles, in accordance with the general rules:
names of authors or editors (if they are missing, title), title, date of publication and the
numbers of pages directly referred to (if given), as well as some necessary additional
information: “URL: here enter the address of the website and in parentheses the date
this website was accessed (5.05.2010). E.g. Kazimierz III Wielki, in: Wikipedia, URL:
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_III_Wielki (2.06.2020); Sarnowsky Jürgen:
Beschreibung des Projekts, in: Virtuelles Preußisches Urkundenbuch,
URL: https://www.spaetmittelalter.uni-hamburg.de/Urkundenbuch/beschreibung.html
(5.01.2020).

• For papers written in the Cyrillic alphabet, please use transliteration [in square
brackets, add the original notation]. ISO-9 transliteration:
http://www.translitteration.com/transliteration/en/russian/iso-9/

Illustrations

• Full responsibility for illustrations is borne by the author/s: please do not infringe
copyright, e.g. you cannot include illustrations, diagrams or drawings without
consulting the owner.

• We do not publish generally available illustrations, e.g. from the Internet.

• Each illustration should be provided in the form of a separate file with its name, and at
the end of the article, please add a list of illustrations. Please note that illustrations are
published at the end of the article.

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[preferably 600 dpi].

• Graphs – made in Corel Draw or Microsoft Excel (if they had to be edited while
working on the text).

• Illustrations – in the form of *.cdr files (with attached fonts) or contrast + .pdf files.

Examples

Archival Sources
Archiwum Archidiecezji Warmińskiej w Olsztynie: Archiwum Biskupie, sig. II D 35/1.

Archiv der Oberlausitzischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften Görlitz: sig. OLGW XII. 1 and
OLGdW A25 (Briefe C. A. v. Schachmanns).

Archiv hlavního města Prahy: Magistrát hlavního města Prahy I., Protokoly sborů městské
správy / Knihy, 1787 Protokoly rady, sig. 548/5.

Archiwum Naszej Przeszłości w Krakowie:

• Akta dotyczące Prowincji Warszawskiej Księży Misjonarzy (XVIII w.), Cathalogus

Missionum in Polonia per presbiteros Congregationis Missionis Varsaviae (ab Anno
1654–1740), sig. 1.
• Schletz Alfons: Słownik biograficzny Zgromadzenia Księży Misjonarzy 1651–1951,
Sign. 1957/1 78/1 (typescript copy).

Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku: Akta miasta Elbląga, sig. 369,1/ 3006.

Archiwum Polskiej Prowincji Zgromadzenia Księży Misjonarzy w Krakowie:

• Liber Missionum ab Anno quo Alexander Kotovius praesul Vilnensis Missionarios

sperabat (1686–1763), (without file number).
• Liber Missionum (pro Domo Leopoliensi ab anno 1748), (without file number).
• Liber Missionum pro Domo Smiłovicensi (ab anno 1747), (without file number).

Printed Sources

Bardili Johann Wendel: Des Weyland Durchl. Printzens Maximilian Emanuels Hertzogs in
Würtemberg […] über ein Schwedisch Dragoner-Regiment Reisen […]. 1730.

Hein Max / Maschke Erich (eds.): Preußisches Urkundenbuch, 2/1. 1932.

Hirsch Theodor (ed.): Scriptores Rerum Prussicarum. Die Geschichtsquellen der preußischen
Vorzeit bis zum Unterg ange der Ordensherrschaft, 3. 1866.
Koppmann Karl (ed.): Hanserecesse. Die Recesse und andere Akten der Hansetage von
1256–1430, 4. 1877.

Kozłowska-Budkowa Zofia et al. (eds.): Joannis Dlugossii Annales seu Cronicae incliti Regni
Poloniae, 9: (1300–1370). 1978.

Kwiatkowski Krzysztof: Oryginalne fragmenty kroniki Wiganda von Marburg ‒ opis

źródłoznawczy, nowa edycja i polskie tłumaczenie, in: Studia Źródłoznawcze, 59. 2021, pp.
107‒14.

Malinowski Mikołaj (ed.): Stryjkowski Maciej: Kronika polska, litewska, żmódzka i

wszystkiej Rusi, 2. 1846.

Pelech Markian (ed.): Nowa księga rachunkowa Starego Miasta Elbląga 1404–1414, 1–2.
1987–1989.

Regesten 1423, in: Virtuelles Preußisches Urkundenbuch, URL:

https://www.spaetmittelalter.uni-hamburg.de/Urkundenbuch/pub/orden1423.html (2.06.2020),
Nr. PrUB, JH I 4208–1423. o.O.

Töppen Max (ed.): Akten der Ständetage Preußens unter der Herrschaft des Deutschen
Ordens, 1. 1878.

Jasas Rimantas (ed.): Wigand von Marburg: Naujoji Prūsijos kronika. 1999.

Literature

Białuński Grzegorz: Opozycja rycerstwa pruskiego na początku XV wieku, in: Komunikaty

Mazursko-Warmińskie, 3. 2010, pp. 247–280.

Cordes Albrecht: Lex mercatoria, in: Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte, 3.

2019, Sp. 890–902.

Czaja Roman: Das Verhältnis der führenden Schichten der preußischen Großstädte zur
Landesherrschaft in vergleichender Sicht im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert, in: Nowak Zenon
Hubert / Czaja Roman (eds.): Der Deutsche Orden in der Zeit der Kalmarer Union 1397–
1521. 1999, pp. 75–89.

Czaja Roman: Die Krise der Landesherrschaft. Der Deutsche Orden und die Gesellschaft
seines Staates in Preußen in der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts, in: Czaja Roman /
Sarnowsky Jürgen (eds.): Die Ritterorden in Umbruchs- und Krisenzeiten. 2011, pp. 159–171.

Gehrke Roland: B. Karch: Nation and Loyalty in a German-Polish Borderland, in: H-Soz-
Kult, URL: https://www.hsozkult.de/review/id/reb-29231?title=b-karch-nation-and-loyalty-in-
a-german-polish-borderland&recno=33&page=2&q=&sort=&fq=&total=17101 (2.06.2020).

Górski Karol: Początki reprezentacji rycerstwa w stanach państwa krzyżackiego w Prusach w

XV wieku, in: Zapiski Historyczne, 33/3. 1968, pp. 131–150.

Jasiński Tomasz: Początki Torunia na tle osadnictwa średniowiecznego, in: Zapiski

Historyczne, 46/4. 1981, pp. 5–34.

Jenks Stuart: England, die Hanse und Preußen. Handel und Diplomatie 1377–1474, 1–2.
1992.

Jóźwiak Sławomir / Kwiatkowski Krzysztof / Szweda Adam / Szybkowski Sobiesław: Wojna

Polski i Litwy z zakonem krzyżackim w latach 1409–1411. 2010.

Kajkowski Kamil / Kuczkowski Andrzej: Water in pre-Christian beliefs in Pomerania

(northern Poland) of the early medieval period, in: Studia Mythologica Slavica, 20. 2017, pp.
15–32.

Kazimierz III Wielki, in: Wikipedia, URL: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_III_Wielki

(2.06.2020).

Kłaczkow Jarosław (ed.): Polski protestantyzm w czasach nazizmu i komunizmu. 2009.

Kłaczkow Jarosław (ed.): Społeczność ewangelicka Radomia podczas okupacji hitlerowskiej.

2009.

Kłaczkow Jarosław: Historia parafii ewangelicko-augsburskiej w Radomiu 1826–2009. 2010.

Kłaczkow Jarosław / Zielińska Agnieszka (eds.): Die Evangelischen in Thorn (16.–20.
Jahrhundert). 2014.

Misāns Ilgvars: Riga, Dorpat und Reval im Spannungsfeld zwischen den wendischen und
preußischen Städten vom Ende des 14. bis zur Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts, in: Dybaś
Bogusław / Makiłła Dariusz (eds.): Prusy i Inflanty między średniowieczem a nowożytnością.
Państwo, społeczeństwo, kultura. 2003, pp. 29–43.

Pelech Markian: Die Rolle Danzigs unter der preußischen Hansestädten bis 1410, in: Jähnig
Bernhart / Letkemann Peter (eds.): Danzig in acht Jahrhunderten. Beiträge zur Geschichte
eines hansischen und preußischen Mittelpunktes. 1985, pp. 61–76.

Sarnowsky Jürgen: Beschreibung des Projekts, in: Virtuelles Preußisches Urkundenbuch,

URL: https://www.spaetmittelalter.uni-hamburg.de/Urkundenbuch/beschreibung.html
(5.11.2020).

Słomkowski Jan: Przestrzeń sakralna, in: Zapiski Historyczne, 1. 2020, pp. 55–77.

Weymann Stefan: Cła i drogi handlowe w Polsce piastowskiej. 1938.

Examples of footnote references

Archival sources (full reference, simple abbreviations are recommended for frequent
reference)

• Archiv hlavního města Prahy: Magistrát hlavního města Prahy I., Protokoly sborů
městské správy / Knihy, 1787 Protokoly rady (further: AP Protokoly), sig. 548/5, fol.
5.
• Archiwum Archidiecezji Warmińskiej w Olsztynie: Archiwum Biskupie (further:
AAW AB), sig. II D 35/1, fol. 89.
• Archiwum Państwowe w Gdańsku: Akta miasta Elbląga (further: AG E), sig. 369,1/
3006.
• Archiwum Naszej Przeszłości w Krakowie (further: ANP): Akta dotyczące Prowincji
Warszawskiej Księży Misjonarzy [XVIII w.], Cathalogus Missionum in Polonia per
 presbiteros Congregationis Missionis Varsaviae (ab Anno 1654–1740), sig. 1.; ANP,
Sign. 78/1, Schletz 1957, [unpag.].
• Archiwum Polskiej Prowincji Zgromadzenia Księży Misjonarzy w Krakowie (further:
APP): Liber Missionum ab Anno quo Alexander Kotovius praesul Vilnensis
Missionarios sperabat [1686–1763], (without file number); APP, Liber Missionum
[pro Domo Leopoliensi ab anno 1748], (without file number), p. 87; APP, Liber
Missionum pro Domo Smiłovicensi (ab anno 1747), (without file number), p. 56.

Printed Sources

• Bardili: Des Weyland, p. 55.

• Hein et al. (eds.): Preußisches, 2/1, No. 175.
• Hirsch (ed.): Scriptores Rerum Prussicarum, 3, No. 156.
• Jasas (ed.): Wigand von Marburg: Naujoji Prūsijos, p. 45.
• Koppmann (ed.): Hanserecesse, 4, pp. 178–179.
• Kozłowska-Budkowa et al. (eds.): Joannis Dlugossii Annales, 9, p. 75.
• Kwiatkowski: Oryginalne fragmenty, p. 110.
• Malinowski (ed.): Stryjkowski Maciej: Kronika polska, 2, p. 74.
• Pelech (ed.): Nowa księga, 1, p. 45.
• Regesten 1423, No. PrUB, JH I 4208–1423.
• Töppen (ed.): Akten, 1, No. 785.
• Ustawa z dnia 20 stycznia 1920 r., Art. 9.

Literature

• Białuński: Opozycja, p. 247.

• Cordes: Lex mercatoria, Sp. 890–902.
• Czaja: Das Verhältnis, p. 76.
• Idem: Die Krise, pp. 159–171.
• Gehrke: B. Karch, unpag.
• Górski: Początki reprezentacji, p. 132.
• Hirsch: Scriptores, p. 88.
• Jasiński: Początki Torunia, p. 6.
• Jenks: England, 1, p. 78.
• Jóźwiak et al.: Wojna (further: Wojna), p. 49.
• Kajkowski et al.: Water, p. 16.
• Kazimierz III Wielki, unpag.
• Kłaczkow (ed.): Polski protestantyzm, pp. 55–56.
• Idem (ed.): Społeczność, p. 88.
• Idem: Historia, p. 78.
• Idem. et al. (ed.): Die Evangelischen, p. 89.
• Misāns: Riga, Dorpat, pp. 41–42.
• Pelech: Die Rolle Danzigs, pp. 62–63.
• Sarnowsky: Beschreibung, unpag.
• Słomkowski: Przestrzeń, p. 55.
• Weymann: Cła, p. 8.