Przekazy o chrzcie księcia Mieszka w piśmiennictwie polskim od schyłku średniowiecza po połowę wieku XIX
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2016
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Wydawnictwa Miejskie Posnania
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The main purpose of the article is to present historiographical accounts of Duke Mieszko’s baptism given in Polish literature between the late middle ages and the mid-19th century. In the second half of the 15th century, Iohannes Longinus completed his Annales seu cronicae incliti Regni Poloniae, a work subsequently drawn upon by all authors in the modern era who wrote on Poland’s history. Successive chroniclers, including Maciej of Miechów, Marcin Bielski and Marcin Kromer, adopted the perspective of this medieval historian. The same can be said for other writers whose works popularized Polish history. Whether poetic, as written by Klemens Janicki and Jan Achacy Kmita; iconographic, as described by Jan Głuchowski; hagiographic: Florian Jaroszewicz and Piotr Hiacynt Pruszcz; or historiosophic: Augustyn Kołudzki and Jan Białobłocki, the story of Mieszko’s abandonment of the faith of his forefathers and adopting Christianity followed the general lines adopted by Iohannes Longinus in The Chronicles. During the Enlightenment period, such authors as Gottfried Lengnich, Teodor Waga and, most prominently, Adam Naruszewicz, did very little to make the approach more scientific. All of the above portrayed Duke Mieszko’s baptism as pivotal in the history of the Polish state. It was not until the Romantic period that this perception changed fundamentally. At that time, Joachim Lelewel constructed his individual classification of Polish historical periods, with the Christening of Mieszko no longer featured as a turning point. He was followed by Zorian Dołęga Chodakowski, whose assessment of the arrival of Christianity in Slavic territory was plainly negative. Chodakowski believed that Christianization brought about the disintegration of indigenous Slavic culture and the erosion of Slavic identity.
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chrzest Mieszka I, mediewalizm, epoka nowożytna, piśmiennictwo nowożytne
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Kronika Miasta Poznania 2016, nr 1, pp. 61-79.