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New manuscript witnesses of S. Adalberti vita altera in the Benedictine abbey of Rajhrad in MoraviaThe Second Life of St. Adalbert of Prague by Bruno of Querfurt (BHL 38–39) survives in small number of copies, so every new witness is potentially important for reconstructing the text closest to the original. The article discusses two such previously unused manuscript witnesses; both are abridged versions...
Handwritten tradition of the Gliniany Rebellion, the seventeenth–eighteenth centuriesThe Rokosz gliniański (The rebellion of Gliniany) is one of the most popular political texts of the noble Commonwealth of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as is evidenced by the number of 189 copies I have established, including 177 that have still been preserved. The text describes a fictitious rebellion...
A few remarks on two stories about the Lombards victory over Heruls (Paul the Deacon, Historia Langobardorum, 1:20, and Procopius of Caesarea, De Bellis, 6:14)The article presents an analysis of two narratives of the war between the Heruls and the Lombards fought in 508. Leaving aside any attempts to see “how it really was” with the course of the conflict, the author focuses on a narrative side of...
Jan Długosz’s literary skills. The case of Life of St. StanislausThe purpose of the study is to describe Jan Długosz (1415–1480) as a writer and hagiographer on the basis of his Life of St. Stanislaus (1460s, BHL 7839). In the first part of the article author presents a rhetorical division of the analysed source: (1) literary topoi contained in the prologue, (2) hagiographic topoi (with comparative...
The Death of His Majesty Stephen King of Poland at Grodno on 12 December Anno Domini 1586 (The Real Truth about the Illness and Death of Late King Stephen Bathory of Poland) –a source to Stephen Bathory’s biography and history of medicineThe sudden and unexpected death of Stephen Bathory, king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, on 12 December 1586 provoked many hypotheses. Since the king was generally...
A few words on the seal of bishop of Włocławek Jan Pella of Niewiesz on the document of Mełno Peace of 1422The purpose of the article is to present trials and tribulations with the attachment of the seal of Bishop of Włocławek Jan Pella of Niewiesz to the main Polish document of the 1422 Mełno Peace. Despite the fact that the sealed document of the treaty was handed over to the Teutonic Knights at...
Three seals of Jan DługoszThis article deals with three seals of John Długosz, discovered in the Biblioteca del Convento di San Giovanni da Capestrano in Capestrano (two imprints), the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, the National Archives in Cracow and the archives of the St. Andrew monastery of the St. Clara order in Cracow. The aim of the sigillographic analysis, performed in the...
On royal physician Maciej of Błonie and his biographical-historical notesThe edition of Avicenna’s works preserved in the Provincial Library at the Higher Theological Seminary of Franciscans in Krakow contains interesting, handwritten biographical notes. It can be said with a high degree of certainty that they were written by Maciej of Błonie, a physician to Kings Aleksander I Jagiellon and Sigismund...
Entretiens of King Stanislaus Augustus with Russian ambassador Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, and Memoirs of the Commonwealth’s last kingAmong the most important historical sources for the reign of Stanisław August one should list Entretiens abbreviated notices of Stanisław August’s talks with the Russian Ambassador Otto von Stackelberg. This article approaches the structure, the state of survival,...
Genealogy of the Sanguszko Family by Prince Symeon Samuel SanguszkoA genealogy of the Sanguszko Family produced by Symeon Samuel Sanguszko (died 1638) is a short historical text presenting the history of the Sanguszkos in genealogical order: starting with the progenitor, it contains biographic notes of successive members of the family according to family branches. The genealogy made by a member of...
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