Aus dem Vorwort: "This book is the result of the international conference "Imaginations and configurations of Polish society: from the Middle Ages through the 20th century", initiated by the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies and co-organized with the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IH PAN), and the Center for the History and Culture of Eastern Central Europe (GWZO, now the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe), Leipzig."