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W artykule Leon Powolny. Bohater walki o polskość Śląska Opolskiego czy defraudant? ukazano jeden z mniej znanych epizodów z życia tego zasłużonego bojownika o polskość Śląska Opolskiego. Powolny – jak wskazują na to materiały źródłowe – był także złodziejem, defraudantem, który okradł bank, w którym pracował. Przez niemiecki wymiar sprawiedliwości skazany został na karę więzienia i tę najprawdopodobniej odbył. Po czym dalej funkcjonował w ruchu mniejszościowym na eksponowanych stanowiskach, był dowódcą struktur konspiracyjnych podczas II wojny światowej i zginął śmiercią męczeńską w niemieckim więzieniu w Brandenburgu, gdzie ścięto mu głowę toporem. Na pytanie, jak można było pogodzić te dwie postawy, autor z pokorą odpowiada: nie wiem! Być może szerzej zakrojone badania archiwalne pozwolą odpowiedzieć na tak postawione pytanie.

The paper introduces the splendid representations of Emperor Constantine the Great and Saint Helena in Jan Kuben's frescos in the church under invocation of the Triumph of the Cross in Brzeg. They testify strongly of the incessant presence of the creative reflection over the Christian ancient times in the area of Opole Silesia in the period of the Catholic reform in the 18th century. Kuben's trompe-l'oeil constitutes a wonderful combination of deeply experienced Catholic spirituality with the genius of the artist – a visionary.

In the article, a reflection is made on the legal regulations developed by the First Synod of the Diocese of Opole, concerning the management of temporal goods of the Diocese. The study presents the content of 17 statutes and 5 annexes (as well as considering earlier studies produced by one of the synodal working commissions, intended to be discussed by the parish synodal groups), and reflects on the completeness of the legal treatment of this vital yet complex area of ecclesiastical life. The solutions adopted by the Synod should be considered incomplete, but the synodal legislator, that is the diocesan bishop, has the right to enact such particular norms as he deems appropriate and necessary.

In the paper, a unique monument in the area of town charters history is presented, that is The Town Charter of Głubczyce. At present, housed by the National Archives in Opole, it was written in Gothic. On the both sides of each of the 241 parchment pages of goat skin in two columns (several pages have got only ruled lines). It was bound later on (the beginning of the 20th century) in oak boards, covered with brown leather. The corners of the both covers and their insides have brass bindings of open-work with the motif of a crown and cone knobs – feet. The book has the following dimensions 40 x 29.5 [cm] and is well preserved. The legal regulations contained in it became the basis of functioning of many towns in Silesia, Czech and Moravia, laying the foundation for the family of the town rights of Głubczyce.

This article analyses, in terms of the legal aspect, the process of dissolution of selected religious foundations before the decree of 24th April 1952 concerning the elimination of those foundations entered into life. The author bases his arguments on the analysis of concrete cases, whose descriptions were found during his archival research.

In this text, the author presents the functioning of the Commune Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party in Brudzń Duży, a commune lying near Płock, in the years 1972–1986. It is mainly the minutes of meetings of the commune party authorities, which were analyzed, paying special attention to their reaction towards the challenge of daily life in the period before – during – and after the political breakthrough in 1981. On the basis of the analysis of the source materials, heavy ideologization of thinking of the management staff of the Municipal Committee was found and in consequence – incapacity to respond to social expectations. Hence, it led to a collapse of the influence of the Polish United Workers' Party all over the country and then – to the liquidation of the entire political formation.

Sprawozdanie z XII Colloquium Prawno-Historycznego "Edukacja prawnicza od Bejrutu do Bolonii. W jubileusz 10-lecia Wydziału Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytetu Opolskiego".

The mortality modeling and forecasting is of fundamental importance in many areas, such as funding of public and private pensions, life insurance, the care of the elderly or the provision of health services. The book is an attempt to approach this subject from a new theoretical point of view, using theory of stochastic differential equations, theory of fuzzy numbers and complex numbers. These notes are addressed to tertiary students, doctoral students and specialists in the fields of demography, life insurance, statistics and economics