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The purpose of research was comparison of archaeological circumstances about origin of the earthenware with the data on pottery material and technology of production obtained from the different physico-chemical analyses. The specimen chosen to the analyses were dated to the second half of the 10th and the first half of the 11th c. and represented two different 'workshops' distinguished by means of...
The author refers to the article by W. Hensel, who developed a thesis that the name Gniezno, inscribed on the coin of Boleslav the Great as GNEZDUN CIVITAS was originally composed of two elements, made up of two words 'knez' (prince) and 'dun' (fortified settlement). Expressing his critical opinion of this thesis, the author, after the analysis of the earliest written records, suggests a hypothesis,...
The article is devoted to the question of the death of Perbundus, who headed the Slavic tribe of Rynchiniens. On the basis of analysis of the testimony of the second part of 'Miracula sancti Demetri', the author comes to a conclusion that Perbundus was executed due to the order of the emperor Constantine IV because he ceased to be guarantee of peaceful relations between Slavic tribes and inhabitants...
The author engages in polemics against the presently most common belief that the Polish territories - abandoned in the 4th/5th century A.D. by the German peoples who had lived there before - were settled by the Slavs only later. He discusses the current state of studies on the issue of cultural and settlement continuity and discontinuity in the period of the so-called migration of nations. Further...
The author has examined colonization processes in the height of the Middle Ages, when Germans and Slavs lived as neighbours and co-operated in various ways, in the Old March, which bordered on Wendland, and exactly in the village district of Salzwedel lying on the outskirts of the historic Old Brandenburg March. The Slavic population in the territories east of Salzwedel, settled by the Slavs long...
The aim of the paper is to introduce into scholary circulation rich material connected with the historical and geographical aspect of the culture of the Prussians and their neighbours and to direct attention to the importance of archaeological materials for the study of historical geography of the southeastern Baltic region. Part I is composed of two subchapters. The first is devoted to outlining...
The subject of the article is the political history of creation and political activity of the Lutici Confederation on the background of the political activity of the Holy Roman Empire and Poland of that time. Many elements of the then political situation are unclear because of the lack of source information. The author characterises successive changes in war developments, the campaigns fought to subject...
The analysis of the spatial layout and the remains of archaeological objects around the Mount of St. Lawrence in Kaldus on the Vistula brings to notice the elements reflecting the structure of the cosmological myth characteristic of the traditional societies. It may be assumed that this place was perceived as an area of meditation and contact of cosmic powers personified, on the one hand, by the uranic...
The document of Premysl I - the duke of Poznan, dated from 1247, provides information that in the mid-13th century in the fortified settlement of Poznan, next to the church of the Holiest Virgin Mary, there was a throne, on which the ruler sat while ceremoniously passing a legal act. The event took place on the isle of Ostrów Tumski in Poznan, in the western part of the Piast stronghold where there...
Two viewpoints on the ethnogenesis of the Slavs clash in modern archaeology: one assumes that in the ancient times the Slavs occupied the territories in the northeastern part of Central Europe, especially in the basins of the Oder and Vistula rivers, the other - assumes the existence of Slavic territories only in the areas located further east. The author contends that the visions of the process of...
The article treats of a detailed iconographic analysis of an avifaunal representation on the denarius of Boleslaw the Brave and a determination of the species to which the bird belongs, as well as the establishment what actually is crowning its head. On the basis of iconography of zoomorphic representations beginning with an archaic period, through a classical one, the antique Hellenistic and Roman...
The article is a polemic against the opinions of Kazimierz Godlowski and Michał Parczewski, who argue that the primeval homeland of the Slavs was located in the upper and the northern part of the middle river basin of the Dnieper. The author points to the inconsistencies and contradictions in archaeological argumentation and also serious heuristic and methodological deficiencies concerning the use...
In the period between the 6th/7th century and mid-13th century, in central Poland four chronological and settlement stages were isolated: 1. 6th/7th c. until the end of the 8th c.- the period of activity of the culture (group) known as Szeligi or Sukow-Dziedzice; 2. from the beginning of the 9th c. until about 950, (until the occupation of this territory by the state of the first Piasts) - a stage...
The article deals with the question of early medieval holy mountains identified in the course of archaeological studies in the Polish lands. On the basis of delimitation of the space considered as sacral, four types of such mountains have been determined, and within one of the types additionally two sub-types. The fifth type of mountainous sanctuaries has been isolated on the basis of a functional...
The subject of the article is a detailed analysis of form and design of fibulae occurring in Barbaricum at the close of the Roman period and in the time of the migration of nations, aimed at the establishment of their origin and function in the then barbaric societies, and especially in the Baltic region. The prototypes of the fibulae were used as emblems of Roman legionaries; the ornamental ones...
The article includes a detailed analysis of pagan beliefs in 'Summa de Confesionis Discretione', the handbook which was found in a Cistercian monastery in Rudy in the Upper Silesia. The authoress traces back the origin of the written monument, contending that it was written in the 13th century in Germany. To Silesia, the work may have come along with the German settlers who stayed in the Cistercian...
This paper is devoted to one particular historical source: the praise of the Grand Princess of Vladimir, Maria Shvarnovna, the first wife of Vsevolod III the Big Nest. The text can be found in the Chronicle of Trinity Monastery, compiled in Moscow around 1408. The monument has not survived to our days and we have only a reconstruction of the text by Priselkov. The publication is divided into three...
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