Opowieść etnogenetyczna a warsztat szesnastowiecznego historyka

• Authors: Krystyna Szelągowska

Title variants

EN

Ethnogenetic storytelling and the workshop of the 16th century historian

Abstracts

EN

The main topic of this paper focuses on the interdependencies between the 16th century historian’s craft and the legendary origo gentis. Two specific examples would be analysed: Marcin Kromer’s Sarmatian origine of the Poles and Nicolaus Petreius’s Cimbrian origine of the Danes. The general presentation of non‑political and non‑ideological presumptions for accepting the mythical past known from the medieval texts delivers the background on which it can be grasped, how Early Modern historians treated that tradition. The analysis of the working methods would be also preceeded by showing the variety of approaches observed in terms of the topic: when dealing with the ethogenetic theories, the historians decided to use polemical oration/treatise as the main form. Another form: the legendary history was applied for presenting the past “before” and “after” the process of shaping the nation/state. The scholarly methods used by both historians included both tradition and novelty: ethymological deductions, endorsment of the classical authorities (and obviously, the Bible), forgery, but at the same time impressive erudition and attempts to addopt some historical criticism.

Keywords

EN

Marcin Kromer; Umbra Saxonis; origo gentis; Renaissance historiography; historical craft

PL

Marcin Kromer; Umbra Saxonis; origo gentis; historiografia renesansowa; warsztat historyka

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historyka Studia Metodologiczne
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 52
• Pages: 387-408

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Krystyna Szelągowska

• Uniwersytet w Białymstoku

• https://orcid.org/000000025195044X

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/hsm.2022.142734

Biblioteka Nauki

20312192