I. GIEYSZTOROWA. Wstep do demografii staropolskiej. Warszawa. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. 1976. 311 str. I. Geishtorova is known in Poland as a specialist in the field of historical demography. Her works are devoted almost exclusively to the population of the Polish lands of the XVI-XVIII centuries. A large place in them is occupied by the issues of establishing the reliability of certain types of sources. Recently, she has been paying considerable attention to the problems of methodology and methodology of demographic research in relation to Polish documentary materials. In this connection, of particular interest is her article on errors in the study of the natural movement of the population, which lie in wait for the historian in case of insufficiently critical attitude to the metric books of the XVII-XVIII centuries .1I. Geishtorova's monograph can be considered as a result of her long-term study of individual issues and at the same time as a critical reflection of the available Polish literature and published sources. How much effort it cost can be judged at least by the fact that the demography of Poland of the XVI-XVIII centuries, reflected in the book, currently includes, according to incomplete data, more than 270 works and documentary publications related to the territory of the Polish People's Republic. By the way, a special serial publication "Demographic Past of Poland", published since 1967.2, has brought a noticeable revival in the coverage of the history of the Polish population ; it is the organ of the section of Historical Demography, established in 1964 under the Committee of Demographic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The work is primarily intended as a source study introduction to the demography of the XVI-XVII centuries; the author also focuses on the methodology and methodology of demographic research. It should be noted that so far only the historiography of France, England, and Belgium has such works . 3 I. Geishtorova is well ... Читать далее