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Marek Cetwiński, Gall, Kosmas, Nestor: ustanawianie tradycji o początkach państwa i jego chrystianizacji
Gall, Cosmas, Nestor: Establishing a tradition of the state’s beginnings and its Christianisation

Author(s): Marek Cetwiński
Subject(s): History, Comparative history, Oral history, Political history, Middle Ages, 6th to 12th Centuries, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Anonymus called Gallus; Cosmas; Nestor; medieval historiography;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the consequences of the fact – unappreciated in the literature on the subject – of large time intervals between the originals of chronicles and their copies known to us and a similar time distance between the beginnings of the statehood and Christianisation of Bohemia, Poland, and Rus’, and the first local written chronicles.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 35-46
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish