The Origins of the Polish Piast Dynasty as Chronicled by Bishop Vincent of KrakÃ³w (Wincenty KadÅubek) to Serve as a Political Model for His Own Contemporary Time

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The Origins of the Polish Piast Dynasty as Chronicled by Bishop Vincent of KrakÃ³w (Wincenty KadÅubek) to Serve as a Political Model for His Own Contemporary Time

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004351875_013

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Bishop Vincent of KrakÃ³w, known as Wincenty KadÅubek, was the most influential scholar in Poland in the late twelfth to early thirteen century. In his Chronica Polonorum (c.Â 1205) he wrote the prehistory of Poland in a very untypical way. Instead of constructing a straight lineage of the dynasty of the Piasts from ancient times up to his own day (as most of the other authors of his time did), he invented deliberately different prehistoric dynasties for the Poles and inserted artificial time gaps among them. Thus, he stressed the idea of Poland as a res publica (people of Poland), who could survive quite well without rulers, if indeed the latter turned out to be bad and egotistical. This implied a clear warning to the contemporary Piasts: they should keep the matters of the res publica in mind or they could be replaced. Poland had already managed to get byâso he arguedâwithout rulers for various periods in the past and could, if necessary, do it again.

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The Medieval Chronicle 11

Series:Â The Medieval Chronicle, Volume: 11

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004351875

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2017

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  - Medieval History
  - History of Warfare
- Literature and Cultural Studies
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