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The paper offers a description of the names used in four seasons (1-4) of the Polish TV series "Rancho." The analysis aims to show the mentality of the rural society that lives in Wilkowyje, its characteristics, and its views on political and social changes after Poland's accession to the European Union. Europe is not the only symbol of the West entering this community. It is also, above all, America, embodied by the film's protagonist, a Polish woman born in New York. For the local inhabitants, the ongoing changes are puzzling and sometimes painful, which they express vocally in their assessments of the West. Due to the specifics of the film language, proper names are studied in their contexts: in the dialogues between the characters and in the situations in which they find themselves. Occasionally, the interpretation of the onymes also requires a deeper look at the source (the film) from which they originated - as an audiovisual work (film editing, music, acting, visuals, colours, etc.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper includes pieces of information about a reissue of Postępek prawa czartowskiego (The Trial of the Devil's Law), an anonymous early printed book attributed to Sebastian Sternacki's printing shop, dated approximately 1619, and omitted from scholarly editing until now. Due to physical damage to the unique copy of editioprlnceps (Brest-Litovsk 1570), the existing state of art is incomplete, and reference to the early 17th c. full-text edition allows to fill the missing gaps. As based on the latter copy, an edition of fragments unknown to this day was prepared, namely the beginning of chapter I, a part of chapter II, prefatory verse Przedmowa do czytelnika łaskawego (Foreword to the Gentle Reader), and Dialog abo Rozmowa o Sprawiedliwości Świeckiej (Dialogue or Conversation on Secular Justice), a piece appended to the reissue of The Trial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]