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Preparation and translation of the publication financed under the program of the Minister of Science and Higher Education in Poland under the name “National Program for the Development of Humanities” in 2012–2014.
Cover illustration: The so-called “bear”, ancient sculpture from around Strzegomiany near Mount Slęża (now at the top of the mountain), Stanisław Rosik.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rosik, Stanisław, author.
Title: The Slavic religion in the light of 11th- and 12th-century German chronicles (Thietmar of Merseburg, Adam of Bremen, Helmold of Bosau) : studies on the Christian Interpretation of Pre-Christian cults and beliefs in the Middle Ages / by Stanisław Rosik.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020. | Series: East central and eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 1450-1450, 1872-8103 ; volume 60 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019056276 (print) | LCCN 2019056277 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004278882 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004331488 (nook edition)
Subjects: LCSH: Slavs—Religion--Sources. | Paganism—Europe, Eastern—History—Sources. | Europe, Eastern—Church history—Sources. | Thietmar, von Merseburg, Bishop of Merseburg, 975–1018. | Adam, von Bremen, active 11th century. | Helmold, approximately 1120-approximately 1177.
Classification: LCC BL930 .R674 2020 (print) | LCC BL930 (ebook) | DDC 299/.18—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019056276
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019056277
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ISSN 1872-8103
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