Historiograficzne inicjatywy związane z odnowieniem Królestwa Polskiego
Historiographic initiatives related to the restoration of the Polish Kingdom

Summary/Abstract: The unification and revival of the Polish Kingdom in the late 13th and the early 14thcenturies, an event of great political significance, was accompanied by a remarkable develop-ment of medieval Polish historiography. It was the first time that historiographic works cov-ered so many parts of Poland, almost simultaneously. In the chronicles produced at that time,great significance was attached to the reasons for the division of the Polish Kingdom, as wellas identifying the prince who had the right to unite the Polish state and finally legitimise theroyal power. This issue was equally addressed by hagiographical and strictly historiographicworks (yearbooks and chronicles). This article deals with devising an ideological programmefor the unification of Poland and discusses the various historiographic works in which this pro-gramme, formulated in different ways, was taken up. In the case of historiography, the politicalimportance of the revival of the Polish Kingdom is evident both in the number of works onpolitical themes and in the fact that unification ideas appeared several decades before the royalcoronation of Vladislaus the Short, which sealed the process, as well as during the unificationstruggle, and even after the actual revival of the regnum Poloniae.

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