Narzeczona Dobrawa i nawracanie księcia Mieszka (aspekty genealogiczne, polityczne i transformacyjne)
The Bride Doubravka of Bohemia and the conversion of Prince Mieszko (the genealogi- cal, political and transformational aspects)

Summary/Abstract: The marriage of Princess Doubravka to Prince Mieszko I is a specific example of accultura-tion in Central-Eastern Europe when Christianity came from Bohemia. It was striving toemancipate its own diocese, further east, to emerging Poland. The study first addresses thegenealogical issues of Bolesław I the Braves family and considers the identification of Dou-bravkas mother (Biagota?, Slavníkovci?). The impulse for the Christianisation of Polandwas Prince Mieszkos defeat in 963; he needed military allies while a certain crisis of identitycould have arosen („culture shock” – the disfavour of ethnic „daemons”). In his chronicle,Thietmar of Merseburg rather obscured the information about the marriage, through a cer-tain bias against Mieszko, and especially towards his son Bolesław. The baptism took placebefore the diocese was established; it was a cultural transfer „from court to court”, fromPrague to Poznań, perhaps due to the similarities between the Czech and Polish dynastictraditions. The goals of Mieszkos marriage were achieved in 967 (victory of the combinedPolish-Bohemian army over Wichmann, birth of Mieszkos son Bolesław).

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