The Early Piasts Imagined: New Work in the Political History of Early Medieval Poland
Piotr Górecki
This article reviews recent work by Polish medievalists representing a new kind of political history, one which breaks with formal, specialized statecraft, law, and institutions, in favour an inquiry into power: its experience, representation, distribution, contestation. conceptual shift relates to resurgence interest among late-Carolingian Ottonian Germany, aims be benchmark for these subjects. Both shifts are visible several historiographies, the remains relatively unknown linguistic reasons. An excellent sample that is contained three books, published Poland last decade, subsequently translated English, about power dukes dynasty’s formative early period. The situates books context addresses implications their translation.
The Mediaeval Journal