Medievalists.net » Poland http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Czechs and Poles in the Middle Ages: Rivalry, Cooperation and Alliances http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/22/czechs-and-poles-in-the-middle-ages-rivalry-cooperation-and-alliances/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/22/czechs-and-poles-in-the-middle-ages-rivalry-cooperation-and-alliances/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:35:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61948 The article contains a description of the development of Czech-Polish relations in the Middle Ages.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/10/22/czechs-and-poles-in-the-middle-ages-rivalry-cooperation-and-alliances/feed/ 0 Szczecin: Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/20/szczecin-castle-of-the-pomeranian-dukes/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/20/szczecin-castle-of-the-pomeranian-dukes/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:19:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61170 My visit to Berlin included a quick stop across the border to Poland, to visit Szczecin and the Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/20/szczecin-castle-of-the-pomeranian-dukes/feed/ 0 The Thirteenth Century International System and the Origins of the Angevin-Piast Alliance http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/18/the-thirteenth-century-international-system-and-the-origins-of-the-angevin-piast-alliance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/18/the-thirteenth-century-international-system-and-the-origins-of-the-angevin-piast-alliance/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:00:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=59065 The central question of this study is what inspired Charles I and Władysław Łokietek to establish a dynastic marriage in 1320 and in what context it happened.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/18/the-thirteenth-century-international-system-and-the-origins-of-the-angevin-piast-alliance/feed/ 0 The Remembrance of the Deceased in the Traditional Polish Culture of the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/30/the-remembrance-of-the-deceased-in-the-traditional-polish-culture-of-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/30/the-remembrance-of-the-deceased-in-the-traditional-polish-culture-of-the-middle-ages/#comments Sat, 30 May 2015 14:49:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58534 In the Middle Ages, Polish Christian holidays remained consistent, except for minor temporary deviations. They included the basic structure of pre-Christian rituals. Yet, traces of the old Slavic ritual calendar can be clearly identified in the Polish and Czech sources from the fourteenth- and fifteenth-centuries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/05/30/the-remembrance-of-the-deceased-in-the-traditional-polish-culture-of-the-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Christianisation of the Piast Monarchy in the 10th and 11th Centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/14/christianisation-of-the-piast-monarchy-in-the-10th-and-11th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/14/christianisation-of-the-piast-monarchy-in-the-10th-and-11th-centuries/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:39:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57607 Which facts testify to the beginning of the Christianisation process of a given country and which ones indicate its conclusion?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/14/christianisation-of-the-piast-monarchy-in-the-10th-and-11th-centuries/feed/ 0 The Sumptuous Use of Food at Castle Marienburg (Malbork) at the Start of the Fifteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/11/the-sumptuous-use-of-food-at-castle-marienburg-malbork-at-the-start-of-the-fifteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/11/the-sumptuous-use-of-food-at-castle-marienburg-malbork-at-the-start-of-the-fifteenth-century/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2015 03:51:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=57543 The prestige role of luxury food consumption was particularly visible during meetings of an international character: Teutonic-Lithuanian, Teutonic-Polish or Teutonic-Polish-Lithuanian, to which the grand master would come accompanied by the highest Order’s officials.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/04/03/ostsiedlung-or-transition-of-german-law-legal-perspective-on-settlement-according-to-german-law-in-medieval-poland/feed/ 0 Middle Age Couriers: How Medieval Polish Manuscripts Turned Up in Milwaukee, and How They Got Back Home to Poland http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/21/middle-age-couriers-how-medieval-polish-manuscripts-turned-up-in-milwaukee-and-how-they-got-back-home-to-poland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/21/middle-age-couriers-how-medieval-polish-manuscripts-turned-up-in-milwaukee-and-how-they-got-back-home-to-poland/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2015 17:30:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56985 Middle Age Couriers: How Medieval Polish Manuscripts Turned Up in Milwaukee, and How They Got Back Home to Poland Lecture by Neal Pease Given at the University of Kansas on April 14, 2014 “He said he had something – a collection of stuff – that he wasn’t actually sure what it was, but he wanted […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/21/middle-age-couriers-how-medieval-polish-manuscripts-turned-up-in-milwaukee-and-how-they-got-back-home-to-poland/feed/ 0 Environmental Crusading: The Teutonic Knight’s Impact After the Baltic Crusades http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/12/environmental-crusading-the-teutonic-knights-impact-after-the-baltic-crusades/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/12/environmental-crusading-the-teutonic-knights-impact-after-the-baltic-crusades/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:44:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=56803 Environmental archaeologist and Professor of Archeology at Reading, Dr. Aleks Pluskowski, examined Malbork and several other sites across Eastern and Northern Europe in his recent paper, The Ecology of Crusading: The Environmental Impact of Holy War, Colonisation, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic. Pluskowski is keenly interested in the impact the Teutonic Knights and Christian colonisation had on the region. His ambitious 4 year project on the ecological changes in this area recently came to a close at the end of 2014.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/03/12/environmental-crusading-the-teutonic-knights-impact-after-the-baltic-crusades/feed/ 0 Nourishment for the Soul – Nourishment for the Body: Animal Remains in Early Medieval Pomeranian Cemeteries http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/25/nourishment-soul-nourishment-body-animal-remains-early-medieval-pomeranian-cementeries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/25/nourishment-soul-nourishment-body-animal-remains-early-medieval-pomeranian-cementeries/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:39:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54393 Late medieval sources clearly refer to souls, which in traditional folk beliefs were periodically returning to feed and warm themselves by the fires made by the living. This kind of conception can be merged with Slavic eschatology. There is multiple evidence to confirm that belief some form of spirit or soul was spreading amongst the people, who in the early medieval period, bordered directly with Pomerania.

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