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n the present work, we review the question of the presence of Bulgarians in the Mont Athos region during the the middle ages. We then examine the topic of the first orthodox monastery there and the main steps in the establishment of relations of the Bulgarian lands and state with the monastic republic.
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In the present work, we review the question of the presence of Bulgarians in the Mont Athos region during the the middle ages. We then examine the topic of the first orthodox monastery there and the main steps in the establishment of relations of the Bulgarian lands and state with the monastic republic.
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Church Fathers on Ownership

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The study aims at an analysis on the concept of ownership in the selected Church Father's works. The authors focus on the work of Saint Jerome Saint Basil of Caesarea, Ambrose and Augustine, presenting the concept of ownership in the middle ages.
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Ernst (-Hartwig) Kantorowicz, born in Poznań (then Germany) in 1895, died in Princeton in 1963, is one of the most distinguished and influential historians (mediaevalists) of the 20th century. A descendent of an affluent Jewish-German (totally naturalized) family, after the rebirth of the Polish state in 1918 moved together with the family to Germany, took part in the World War I, struggled against the Polish insurgents and against the communists in Berlin and Munich, studied a.o. in Heidelberg, where he joined the famous Stefan George circle. After publishing the monograph on Emperor Frederick the Second (1927-1931) he have been callingas professor in Frankfurt a.M., as consequence to the decisions of the Nazi-government he retired in 1933/1934 and eventually in 1938 emigrated to Great Britain and finally to the USA, where (first in Berkeley Ca., then in Princeton) he lived and worked until his death. Besides his fundamental monographs and studies on the medieval political liturgy (Laudes regiae 1946) and the political theology (The Kings’ Two Bodies 1957), his life was characterized by an extraordinary stable opinion and the determination to defend it, as was proved first in 1933 in Nazi- Germany and the second time in Berkeley in 1949 (during the s.c. Loyalty Oath Controversion). This article is an abbreviated and partially changed version of the introduction to the Polish translation of the main work by Kantorowicz (The King’s Two Bodies), to appear in this year.
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Tabulae, tabulae ecclesiae

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This article examines the evolution of the term tabula from antiquity onward and the use of it in middle ages and early modern age literature. It analyses in detail the term tabulae ecclesiae finding its triple meaning in the Central European environment: 1) tabulae written on parchment (later on paper) and fixed on a board in the church – these contained information and instructions for laymen, those in the sacristy or in the choir contained normative constitutions or doctrinal auctoritates for clerics, 2) tabulae on the church walls near the high-altar contained lists of persons to be remembered in liturgy permanently; their external form were frescos framing their names like funeral tablets, 3) the same term tabulae ecclesiae is used also in the sense of financial cash resulting from a church collection. In all cases the ideological connection of medieval church boards to antique legistic texts (1.), to fasti (2.) or to the external form of a real board only (3.) is examined.
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Záviš, autor liturgické poezie 14. století

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The medieval poet and composer Záviš is known as author of religious and secular poetry, written in Latin and in Czech. Scholar works – both of musicologists and literary historians – mostly focused on his love song Jižť mne všě radost ostává, looking for its correct musical reconstruction and the proper place within the late-fourteenth-century vernacular literary tradition. The article deals with Záviš’s less studied works, which represent typical additions to the repertory of the Latin liturgical poetry. It revises the hitherto authoritative Mužík’s interpretation of the Záviš’s lai O Maria, mater Christi and its transmission, brings analysis of his tropes Kyrie Inmense conditor and Gloria Patri et filio, and compares Záviš’s output to the typical or exceptional works of the late-fourteenth / early fifteenth-century. The chants which can be today attributed to Záviš, show a strong influence by the late-medieval German repertory, knowledge of the chants once performed (only) in the St Vitus’s Cathedral, and reveal a surprising link to the contemporary poetical repertory in Northern Italy. Following this, new arguments arise supporting older hypothesis about the identification of the autor ‘Záviš’ as the influencial church official Záviš of Zapy.
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The paper draws attention to a manuscript of a Czech translation of the Old Testament from the 15th century from the estate of Litoměřice Bishop Emanuel Ernest of Waldstein (1716-1789), kept today in the Waldstein Collection in the State Regional Archives in Litoměřice.
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Bardzo niewiele przetrwało informacji na temat życia Boniperta, pierwszego biskupa miasta Pécs, żyjącego we wczesnym średniowieczu. Analiza źródeł węgierskich wskazuje, że został biskupem Pécs w roku 1009, zakończył episkopat w roku 1036 i że zmarł w roku 1042, prawdopodobnie na Węgrzech. Niestety, źródła milczą, jeśli chodzi o życie kapłana przed objęciem stanowiska biskupa w Pécs. Przeprowadzone badania antroponimiczne imienia „Bonipert” sugerują, że biskup był pochodzenia frankońskiego lub północnowłoskiego. Trudno dziś ustalić, która z tych hipotez jest właściwa, gdyż na korzyść każdej z nich przemawiają interesujące argumenty, a jednocześnie każda z hipotez kryje poważne słabości. Należy jednak podkreślić, że jedyny dokument dotyczący Boniperta, który nie jest pochodzenia węgierskiego, pochodzi z obszaru współczesnej północno-zachodniej Francji. Dokument ten to list napisany przez słynnego biskupa Fulberta z Chartres w odpowiedzi na prośbę Boniperta o wypożyczenie manuskryptu Pryscjana. Jeżeli posłużyć się głównie tym tekstem w dyskusji na temat pochodzenia pierwszego biskupa miasta Pécs, to należy zaznaczyć, że w opinii uczonych żądanie Boniperta wynikało z faktu, iż biskup potrzebował tekstu do pracy dydaktycznej. Prośba ta jest dowodem na istnienie szkoły katedralnej w Pécs w okresie działania pierwszego biskupa. Należy również podkreślić, że budynek szkoły katedralnej nie jest jedynym osiągnięciem przypisywanym Bonipertowi przez uczonych. Kilka lat temu profesor László Havas wysunął hipotezę, że istnieje powiązanie między Bonipertem a pochodzeniem Libellus de Instutione Morum, dziełem z gatunku speculum principale, napisanym w pierwszym dwudziestopięcioleciu XI w. przez anonimowego autora na zlecenie Stefana dla jego syna, Emeryka. Pomimo raczej hipotetycznego charakteru ze względu na bardzo małą liczbę zachowanych dokumentów dowodowych, prowadzone badania nad pracą intelektualną biskupa Boniperta dały pewne interesujące wyniki. Można na ich podstawie wnioskować, że Bonipert był prawdopodobnie bardzo dobrze wykształcony i był traktowany jak równy przez jednego z największych intelektualistów swych czasów, Fulberta z Chartres. Jego troska o edukację nie budzi żadnych wątpliwości, gdyż z wszelkim prawdopodobieństwem był założycielem szkoły katedralnej w Pécs. Prezentowała ona zapewne dobry poziom niedługo po jej założeniu. Jak wynika z naszego pobieżnego badania kwestii związku między Bonipertusem a Libellus de Institutione Morum, pytanie dotyczące tego dzieła literackiego jest dużo bardziej złożone. Nie można jednak formalnie wykluczyć hipotezy, że pierwszy biskup miasta Pécs był zaangażowany w tworzenie pierwszego pomnika średniowiecznej literatury węgierskiej.
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The article presents archival, archaeological and architectural survey of the parish church in Ludanice. The research was performed here concurrently with a total renewal of the building between 1998 and 2010, however for various reasons the research could have only partial character. Despite his limited extent, the study offers a complex view of the sacral building’s history, which had its origins likely in the late Roman period. Apart from architecture, the article analyses the church cemetery, the original title of the church – St. Demetrius and the beginnings of the nearby village centre settlement.
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The following article deals with a possibility of finding some parallels between oratory art and staging. They are often hidden in a text structure, but also an old practice allows us to point many similarities between both arts. Some ancient, medieval treatises were chosen for the further analysis.
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The article presents the most important examples of castellan Jan from Pilcza economic and foundational activity in the context of other Iuniores faction members achievements. The text elaborates endowments and ways of managing the lands by Jan from Pilcza and members of the young nobles party. It contains also some observations about common points of Iuniores actions – groups known as the main part of the opposition against bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki. Recognition of these activities profiles is helpful in better understanding the ideological and political attitude of medieval Crown of Polish Kingdom noble elite representatives, who were participants of Spytko from Melsztyn confederetion. The Jan from Pilcza biography is an example of political and social advancement in times of Władysław III and Kazimierz Jagiellończyk reigns. His economic activity had been mainly based on profits from his lands and developing, inter alias, trade markets. Privileges which he dedicated for Tyczyn and Łańcut confirm the observed trend. Also mining was an economy branch developed in described region by Jan from Pilcza. The mentioned activity had a positive impact on defensive capability of Crown of Polish Kingdom. Jan from Pilcza's economic activities, such as salt-mining organizing, could be viewed as similar to other iuniores. In that context it is necessary to highlight that iuniores chantry actions, endowments and a lot of connections between them and catholic Church are denying the thesis about Hussitism among this political faction representatives.
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Scientists often criticize there are not enough diachronical empirical investigations about sorts of texts. The analysis I did, is trying to close this gap. The choose was falling on the beginning of testaments when they wrote down. I’m geared at the dictum of linguists, that the history of language is at the same time the history of sort of texts. The corpus of my investigation includes material I found by my own. I also transliterated it. Already in further time I analyzed the linguistic structure of testaments of citizens in Krakow. These investigations were very successful. Therefore, I wanted to use the same method for testaments of citizens in Breslau. I started with the historical background and the registration of testamentery texts in the so called “Stadtbuch” (registry of town). I explained four levels of description. The same method I used for the investigation of the last will of the citizens of Breslau. In this present paper I give attention on text-linguistical aspects. But there is one difference between two levels: the axiological-ontological and the stylistic level – compared to the contemporary conception of a testament. My contribution can also understand as an invitation for forthcoming investigations of the diachronic of such sorts of texts. The benefit for the subject linguistic shouldn’t underestimate.
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Soupis rukopisů Rožmberské knihy (1. část)

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The Rosenberg Book, a unique source of the Bohemian land law written in the 14th century, lacked until now a full and comprehensive catalogue of all the extant manuscript copies. As the paper contains a physical and codicological description of 10 the known 40 manuscripts of the Rosenberg Book, it presents to the readers the first part of the catalogue. In the introduction to the paper the catalogue is supplemented with basic information about the existing records of the Rosenberg Book manuscripts, brief characteristics of its manuscript tradition, an the guidelines for the manuscript description itself.
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The Among the documents preserved in the local archive (Archiwum Państwowe we Wrocławiu) within the collection of deeds issued by municipal and local government, list of assessors of The Feudal Court (Hof oder Mannengericht) from 1380 till 1611 can be found. The interconnection of this institution bound to the „Hauptmann“ of Wrocław office with interests, aspirations and activities of representatives of “governing elites” of Wrocław townsmen is obvious even from a cursory glance at the constitution of the boards. Selected townsmen were members of the tribunal every year throughout its existence. The possibility to compare the lists of townsmen participating in the above mentioned Board on the Court level and lists of councillors and assessors of Wrocław preserved for years 1287–1744 enables the study of involvement of the most influential townsmen families in both the institutions, both fields of administration. Thus the comparison of representation of individual families in the bodies governing municipal government and in the feudal institution may uncover the methods Wrocław elite used to maintain their influential position within the urban community. The following lines should contribute to such considerations. Based on the analysis and comparison of both the lists we will attempt to evaluate the benefits of such sources for monitoring the mechanisms of the creation and preservation of governing elites and their strategies. The thorough analysis of the list of assessors of The Feudal Court will be complemented with the comparison of representation of selected Wrocław townsmen families, which, based on the previous research, could be considered part of the governing elites or council patriciate, in the bodies of municipal government according to the preserved as well as edited lists of councillors and assessors. The time interval of the research is determined by the extent of the first mentioned source, i.e. list called „Hof oder Mannengericht“ including years 1380–1611. The comparison of changing or repeating names of the representatives of individual families in both the mentioned lists will become the basis for considerations concerning mechanisms used for genesis and strengthening the elites and not only on municipal institutional level.
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The article addresses the original function of the matroneum in the former Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary in Torun. These remarks are the result of the latest discoveries and technological research. The matroneum, situated above the cloister in the northern nave of the church, was built during the reconstruction of the church to its present form. Based on a dendrochronological examination, the matroneum was secured with a wooden railing in the 1350s and later. Due to a lack of written sources, the functions of the matroneum are not determined in scholarly publications. It may have been used as an oratory for friars. The authors analyse the architectural shape of the matroneum, take into account its original communication with the church and monastery and the remains of its furnishing. The study of the architectonic structure and the staircase that now leads from the nave to the matroneum allows to determine that it was constructed only in the eighteenth century. In the Middle Ages, the matroneum was connected to the monastery through a passage that is now bricked up, and to the ground floor of the church it was connected through an older, thirteenth-century staircase tower. A convenient, direct communication between the matroneum and the dormitory, the fact that the monastery was not directly connected to the presbytery, and the fact that the church choir was rebuilt at the end of the fourteenth century reinforce the theory that the matroneum was used for liturgical purposes. The authors also discuss the previously unknown polychrome relics inside the matroneum. These are, respectively, a relic of a fourteenth-century heraldic representation with the head of an ox and a remnant of a figural scene on the northern wall from the last quarter of the fourteenth century. Both paintings have been subjected to in-depth research, including non-destructive methods (XRF, UV and IR). The first of the paintings, probably the coat of arms of a burgher family, may be a proof that the laymen had access to the interior of the matroneum. The second painting reinforces the assumption of the authors regarding the liturgical use of this place.
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Czech history in light of narrative´s strategy of Jan Długosz’s Annales: One of the research option of monumental chronicle epos from cracow´s canon Jan Długosz Annales seu Cronicae incliti Regni Poloniae represents relation between cronicle, or it´s author and czech history. In his rather negative attitude mainly during time of Hussite´s revolution dominated two basic motives – strict accusing Czechs of heresy and at the same time accenting common origin and language alikeness of czech and polish „nation“. Aim of the study is to point out chronicler ´s using of this two „plot“ while actualising the view in pre-Hussite period and to create a narrative frame of czech historical „story“ in contrast with history of his own land. Outcome of analysis is attempt of uncovering and introducing narrative strategy which Długosz applied during construction of czech´s issue chapter chiefly in chronological older part of Annales.
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This Czech translation of an essay, originally written in Russian and published in 2004, considers the Western historians’ conception of feudalism of the last three decades. Drawing from research into Scandinavian archive documents, the author points to the limits of the approaches taken so far. They have, he argues, been determined both by the extant records and by the transfer of Latin terminology to a vernacular milieu in which Latin terms can indicate social categories and property relations diff erent from what they originally meant. He also comments critically on the highly developed twentieth-century Russian research into feudalism, in which works based on thorough analysis of west European records are predominant. He also considers in detail the existing approach to family/clan ownership and, again referring to Scandinavian sources, demonstrates that the usual claims must be fundamentally reassessed.
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Český překlad eseje, napsaného původně v ruštině a publikovaného roku 2004, který se vyrovnává s pojetím feudalismu mezi západními historiky v posledních třiceti letech. Autor na základě studia skandinávských archivních dokumentů, poukazuje na limity dosavadního zkoumání. Domnívá se, že jsou podmíněny dochovanými záznamy a přenosem latinské terminologie do lidového prostředí, v němž se latinské termíny, indikující společenské kategorie a vlastnické vztahy, mohou lišit od původního významu. Kriticky také komentuje vysoce rozvinutý výzkum feudalismu ve dvacátém století, který ruští vědci stavěli převážně na důkladné analýze západoevropských záznamů. Autor také bere v potaz stávající přístup k rodinnému/klanovému vlastnictví a, opět se odvolávaje na skandinávské zdroje, ukazuje, že je obvyklá tvrzení nutno zásadně přehodnotit.
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The aim ofthis study is to provide an elementary overview of contemporary Russian research on the history ofRussia up until the 15^ century and to present some ofthe issues to which contemporary Russian medieval studies is currently devoting itself. After a period ofenforced isolation, Russian scholars in the 1990s began concerning themselves intensively with the methodologies used in Western medieval studies and has been trying to apply them to Eastern European historical material which Western medieval studies has heretofore -with rare exceptions - largely ignored. Following the establishment of democracy in academia, the need to revise the landscape ofthe history ofthe Russia ofthe Kievan and “partition” periods became apparent. However, due to the character of Russian sources, it is not possible in any simple way to transfer the methods used in working with Western medieval materials to the study ofthese periods. This is why the new historical fields have devoted themselves primarily to the 16^ and 17^ centuries, which provide the richest and most varied source materials. Although it is certain that Russian medieval studies has succeeded in overcoming the crisis it experienced in the 1990s, one of the central problems afflicting contemporary Russian and Western medieval studies remains: the absolute separation between research on the middle ages in Russia and in Western and indeed in Central Europe.
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The article is concerned with one of the current directions in Russian historiography - gender history, and specifically gender history as applied to medieval Rus. The source base for research into gender aspects of society in Rus up to the 15th century has a specific character and is far less extensive and diverse than material from the Catholic part of Europe, which means that many problems that are engaging the interest of western historiography are essentially insoluble when it comes to Rus. Although there is intense discussion of gender history among Russian academics, as among their western counterparts, research has tended to be confined to the history of women (women's history, istorichesaya feminologiya). The excessive isolation of research on women's themes is manifest not only in relation to their male opposite pole, but in a certain separation from other research of the history of medieval Rus. Russian gender history is for the moment excessively orientated to the diachronnic aspect and studies individual isolated themes over very long time periods, sometimes even millennia. One of the main task of current gender-orientated medieval studies is therefore to pay greater attention to synchronic aspects, i.e. to the integration of gender themes into the image of a specific epoch with all its distinctive cultural and social features and mental climate.
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Článek pojednává o jednom ze směrů v soudobé ruské historiografii - gender historii, specificky pak o gender historii středověké Rusi. Pramenná základna pro výzkum genderových aspektů ruské společnosti do 15. století má specifický charakter a je daleko méně rozsáhlá a různorodá než materiály pocházející z katolické části Evropy, což znamená, že mnohé problémy, které budí zájem historiografie na Západě, jsou v Rusku neřešitelné. Jakkoli mezi ruskými akademiky, podobně jako mezi jejich západními kolegy, probíhá intenzivní diskuse o gender historii, výzkum sám bývá zúžen na dějiny žen (women's history, istorichesaya feminologiya). Nadměrné zaměření výzkumu na ženská témata se projevuje nejen ve vztahu k jejich mužským protějškům, ale i v jisté izolaci od dalšího výzkumu dějin středověké Rusi. Ruská gender historie je nyní výrazně orientována na diachronní aspekty a studium individuálních izolovaných témat v průběhu velmi dlouhých časových úseků, někdy dokonce tisíciletí. Jeden z hlavních úkolů soudobé genderově orientované medievalistiky je tudíž věnovat větší pozornost synchronním aspektům, tj. integraci genderových témat do obrazu konkrétní epochy se všemi jejími specifickými kulturními a sociálními rysy a myšlenkovým klimatem.
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"Feudalismus" a bojaři středověké Rusi

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The article considers with the question of ‘Russian feudalism,’ that is, the applicability of the concept of feudalism to medieval Russian society. A detailed historiographic overview is provided to show how, from the late eighteenth century to the present, various scholars compared Russian and European historical approaches to feudalism. The author shares Aron Gurevich’s scepticism about the heuristic value of applying the ‘feudal model’ to describe medieval European society and he shows the limited applicability of the model to old Russian nobility, the boyars. In medieval Russia, the nobility’s unity, supreme status, and access to institutionalized power were ensured by rather diff erent factors not directly related to feudal institutions. These factors include the unique ethos of the relationships between the nobility and the sovereign as well as their joint ceremonial meals/feasts and military ventures. It is the comparative study of such ‘nodes of an interpersonal network’ (as Gurevich put it) that will help us to better understand the shared and particular features of the various patterns of social development in diff erent regions of medieval Europe.
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Článek se zabývá otázkou ruského feudalismu, to jest použitelností konceptu feudalismu na ruskou středověkou společnost. Detailní historický přehled ukazuje, že od konce osmnáctého století do dneška mnozí badatelé porovnávali ruské a evropské historické přístupy k feudalismu. Autor sdílí skepsi Arona Gureviče ohledně heuristické hodnoty aplikace „feudálního modelu“ na popis středověké evropské společnosti a ukazuje omezenou použitelnost modelu na starou ruskou šlechtu, bojary. Ve středověké Rusi byla soudržnost šlechty, její vysoký status a přístup k institucionalizované moci zajištěna poněkud jinými faktory, které se přímo netýkaly feudálních institucí. Tyto faktory zahrnovaly výjimečný étos vztahu mezi šlechtou a panovníkem, stejně jako společné slavnostní hostiny/svátky a válečné výboje. Komparativní studie takových „uzlů mezilidských vztahů“ (jak říká Gurevič) nám pomůže lépe porozumět sdíleným a odlišným rysům rozmanitých vzorců sociálního vývoje v různých regionech středověké Evropy.
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This article tries to evaluate the living standard of the court of the Meinhardiner dynasty by exploring the evidence provided by the Tirolean Books of Accounts. Inventories originating from the princely chancellery of the Tirol residence are thus brought under the microscope. The subject of analysis is not only a list of the Tirolean “Familia” depicting the personal structure of the court, but the estate inventories of Otto of Carinthia (+1310) and Henry of Carinthia (+1335) as well, both providing a better insight in the aristocratic representation and cultural investments of the counts of Tirol.
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