Jana Adamusa droga ku naukowemu niebytowi
Jan Adamus’s path to scientific oblivion
Author(s): Jacek MatuszewskiSubject(s): History, History of Law, Political history, Middle Ages
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM Uniwersytetu Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego w Krakowie
Keywords: Jan Adamus; methodology of history; monarchy of the Anonymous Gaul; patrimonial monarchy; Piast monarchy; monarchism and republicanism; Polish medieval studies; clan theory; Oswald Balzer;
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the complicated history of the works and achievements of the founder of Medieval Studies Centre at the Faculty of Law of the University of Łódź, Jan Adamus. The eminent researcher of bygone judicial law criticised the political system of the state of the kings of the House of Piast approved by the Polish historiography by the authority of Oswald Balzer. The text quotes ways of avoiding references to the claims of Jan Adamus or glossing them over resorted to by historians, and literature containing material assessment of his achievements, to point finally at some of the reasons that resulted in near absolute avoidance of including the criticism of his predecessors flung by the Łódź-based medievalist.
Journal: Studia z Dziejów Państwa i Prawa
- Issue Year: XVII/2014
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 271-286
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Polish
