The Dawning of Christianity in Poland and across Central and Eastern Europe
History and the Politics of Memory
©2020
Edited Collection
312 Pages
Series:
Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Volume 26
Summary
This book covers two fields of research. The first part of the volume includes essays authored by Polish, German, Czech, and Ukrainian archeologists and historians on the genesis and unique nature of the roads whereby Christianization proceeded in Polish lands in the early Middle Ages in the context of the kindred processes underway especially from the 10th century in neighboring lands. The second part of this publication includes considerations on the politics of memory as applied to the beginnings of statehood in Poland and Kievan Rus’. Chosen examples reveal the uniqueness and the evolution of various politics of memory related to the founding myths of statehood in modern Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the author
- About the book
- Citability of the eBook
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: New perspectives
- Christians and pagans in Kiev during the 10th c.
- The beginnings of Christianity in Bohemia1
- Between reception and aversion. The earliest traces of Christianity among the Polabian Slavs
- Magdeburg and the beginnings of the Diocese of Poznań
- Archaeology on the beginnings of Christianity in Poland
- Mieszko I’s baptism and the Poloni as reflected in historiographic sources from the 10th to the 14th c.
- The beginnings of Christianity in Pomerania
- Early-Piast architecture in the context of early-medieval European architecture
- The archaeological discoveries at Bodzia near Włocławek (Kuyavia region) and their significance for Poland’s early-medieval history
- Part II: Modern Myths
- The roads by which Christianization proceeded in the history of Poland and in the Poles’ culture of memory – new research perspectives and modern myths
- Homo religiosus: the phenomenon of Poland’s Mieszko I
- Searching for the meaning of the Russian way. The ideological setting of the 900th anniversary celebrations of the Baptism of Rus’ (1888)
- History as a tool in the state’s struggle against the Catholic Church during the celebrations of the One-Thousand Years of the Polish State (1956–1966/1967)
- The inseparable heritage of early medieval Rus’. On the celebration of the 1,150th anniversary of the origin of Russian statehood1
- List of affiliations of the authors
- List of figures
- Editors’ remarks
Details
- Pages
- 312
- Publication Year
- 2020
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631787250
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631790915
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631790922
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783631790939
- DOI
- 10.3726/b15997
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2019 (December)
- Keywords
- Christianization of Poland Christianization of Slavs Beginnings of Poland Beginnings of statehood Founding myths Culture of memory
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 312 pp., 17 fig. b/w.
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