Week 10
New powers (I)
Early
medieval Poland and the Piasts
- Gallus
Anonymus, Chronicles and Deeds of the Dukes
or Princes of the Poles
- Andrzej Buko, "Unknown revolution: archaeology and
the beginnings of the Polish state," in East Central and
Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages, ed. by
Florin Curta (Ann Arbor,
2005), pp. 162-178 (Pack)
- Joseph Henry Lang, "The fall of the monarchy of Mieszko
II Lambert," Speculum
49 (1974), 623-39 (available
online)
- see brief presentations of Ostrów
Lednicki, visit Ostrów
Tumski, Duke Mieszko I's palace in Poznan, and Giecz,
and see a reconstruction of the tenth-century stronghold at Grzybowo
- see two scenes representing the martyrdom
of
St.
Adalbert and the transfer of his remains
from
Prussia to Gniezno (twelfth-century panels on the bronze doors of
the
cathedral in Gniezno)
- see a genealogy of the Piasts
Western and central
Balkans in the Early and
High Middle
Ages
