Poland, Pomerania and Their Neighbours` Shaping of Medieval European Civilisation (10 th - 12 th Centuries)

Redakcja: Stanisław Rosik

Rok wydania: 2020

Liczba stron: 378

Okładka: miękka

Format: 17,0 cm x 24,0 cm

Seria: Scripta Historica Europaea 1

Książka w jęzku angielskim

The medieval realms specified in the project’s title have their modern continuations. Poland is a state and a political entity, while Pomerania is a historical region within the present boundaries
of Poland and Germany and is divided into several administrative regions situated on both sides of the Odra river. The present situation of Pomerania is reminiscent of its history in the 10th–12th centuries when Pomeranian territory was subject to the political and military expansion of its neighbours: Poland, Germany and Denmark. Yet, at the same time, various social and political entities formed within Pomerania and their inhabitants became known collectively as “Pomeranians”. The etymology of the name refers to the people inhabiting the strip of land “by the sea”. However, in the first half of the 11th century, its coverage was extended to the communities that populated the vast area known as Pomerania (Polish: Pomorze) between the Noteć river in the south, the Baltic Sea in the north and the lower Vistula and lower Odra rivers (and in the 12th century, also to the region west of the Odra).

In the first half of the 12th century Pomerania was incorporated into the political network of countries belonging to the cultural circle of Latin Christianitas in perpetuity. Historians of the 19th and 20th centuries attributed this process to Polish military expansion. Such thinking was based on the assumption that the territories of the eastern part of the land “by the sea” were directly incorporated into Poland (in 1119 at the latest) as a result of the conquest and then Christianised under the Polish ecclesiastical administration. The history of the western part of the land “by the sea” developed differently. The Duchy of West Pomerania, despite subjugation by the forces of Bolesław Krzywousty (the Wrymouth) in about 1120, maintained its political independence to become a component of the Central-European political system under the supremacy of the German rulers of the Holy Roman Empire

(Introduction)

Contents:

Introduction /7

I. POMERANIA AND POLAND IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD. COSMOGRAPHY AND COMMUNICATION  /17

Adam Krawiec - Pommern in der europäischen imaginären Geographie bis zum 13. Jahrhundert   /19

Aleksander Paroń - The Baltic Sea and Black Sea Intermarium. Some preliminary remarks on the early medieval communication networks  /39

Jonathan Shepard - The early Piasts circumscribed by Byzantium? Diplomatic, religious and economic coils  /57

Władysław Duczko - Scandinavian influences on Poland and Pomerania in the early Middle Ages /63

II. FROM SLAVIC TRIBES TO EARLY STATES  /81

Andrzej Pleszczyński - Changes in the spatial functioning of power in Poland from the early Middle Ages until the 13th century – the example of the province of Sandomierz  /83

Andreas Kieseler - Bauorganisation und -aufwand bei der Errichtung kleiner Rundwälle der mittelslawischen Zeit  /103

Felix Biermann - Die Liutizen – Archäologie einer Stammeswelt im Wandel   /141

Fred Ruchhoft - Arkona auf Rügen. Überregionale Beziehungen im Kontext der Funde und Befunde  /203

III. WITHIN THE CIRCLE OF POLITICS AND RELIGION: FROM ROME TO THE BALTIC   /221

Waldemar Konighaus  - Pommern zwischen Papsttum, Polen und Reich bis zum Anfang des 13. Jahrhunderts  /223

Monika Rusakiewicz - Donations of wax as examples of commemorations of Otto of Bamberg in Pomerania (12th to 13th centuries)  /257

Marcin R. Pauk - Saxony – Poland – Pomerania. The process of Christian acculturation on the margins of Carolingian and post-Carolingian Europe: evidence of ecclesiastical tithes /267

Marek Smoliński - Pommerellen, seine Herrscher und Polen im 12. Jahrhundert   /285

IV. THE ISSUES OF HISTORIOGRAPHY: FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO MODERN TIMES   /313

Joanna Sobiesiak - The oldest connections of Poland with Western Pomerania in medieval and modern Czech historiography   /315

Sergiy Seryakov - The image of Polish and Pomeranian history up to the 12th century in contemporary Ukrainian historiography  /327

Jakub Morawiec - The role and status of Jómsborg in Scandinavian historiography   /343

Paweł Migdalski - When did the first Polish rulers take the Pomerania? The history of certain paradigms in the Polish historiography   /351

Tomasz Wiślicz - Postcolonial readings of the medieval history of Pomerania  /367

Authors  /378