Staropolska historiografia (post)kolonialnie rozdwojona?
Is Old-Polish Historiography (Post-)Colonially Schizophrenic?

Maciej Stryjkowski and His Epic History of Old Lithuania

Summary/Abstract: The article outlines some basic issues in a post-colonial analysis of the historiography of Maciej Stryjkowski, whose attitude can be called both colonial and self-colonizing. Stryjkowski, the sixteenth-century chronicler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, presents his historiography as a repository of shortcomings, trying to convince his reader about a specific deficiency in Lithuanian historical writings, which, considering the colonial project of the Polish Crown at that time in relation to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its formal crowning in the union of Lublin in 1569, may have represented an “orientalizing” gesture within the meaning coined by Edward Said.

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