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Opowieść etnogenetyczna a warsztat szesnastowiecznego historyka

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Szelągowska K.

Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2022

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vol. 52

387-408

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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.

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Duńskie koncepcje Origo gentis w nowożytnej historiografii

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Szelągowska K.

Res Historica

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2022

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issue 54

169-195

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The aim of this paper is to show how Early Modern (16th and 17th centuries) Danish historiography, within the pursuit of the goal of forming a new vision of national history, constructed the new theory of the nation’s origin. Simultaneosly, the paper attempts to trace the dependencies on the medieval heritage and present the evolution of the ideas. To fullfil those goals, the confrontation of medieval theories (Saxo Grammaticus, Annales Ryenses and the Danish Rhymed Chronicle) with the Early Modern creations was performed, with the purpose of pointing which elements were preserved and which needed to be supplemented. The Bible and the ancient classical historians and geographers delivered necessary information to the scholars (Niels Pedersen – Petreius, Claus Lyschander, Niels Strelow) making it possible to proof the Cimbrian origin of the Danish nation. The ways in which this reasoning was accomplished show the variety of forms and methodological approaches together with different ideological standpoints.

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Celem artykułu jest ukazanie jak we wczesnonowożytnej (XVI–XVII w.) historiografii duńskiej, w ramach konstruowania nowej syntezy dziejów narodowych, uformowała się teoria pochodzenia narodu duńskiego. Dodatkowo, artykuł ma prześledzić zależność tych teorii od średniowiecznego dziedzictwa oraz dokonującą się w tym względzie ewolucję.Realizacja powyższych celów polega na konfrontacji opowieści przekazanych przez dziejopisów średniowiecza (m.in. Sakso Gramatyk, Rocznik z Ryd, Duńska kronika rymowana) z dziełami nowożytnymi, by pokazać, jakie wątki zachowano, a jakie rozbudowano, przede wszystkim o okres „przed Danem”, wiążąc go z dziejami biblijnymi i klasyczną starożytnością. W rezultacie powstała nowa opowieść (Niels Pedersen – Petreius, Claus Lyschander, Niels Strelow), oparta na przekazie Biblii oraz dziełach starożytnych historyków i geografów, której centralnym punktem było udowodnienie cymbryjskiego pochodzenia narodu. Narracje o Początkach ukazują zróżnicowanie zarówno formy i metodologicznego podejścia, jak i ideologicznych postaw.

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Węgrzy jako pars aliqua gentis Massagetum. Ślady późnoantycznej i wczesnośredniowiecznej uczoności w dziele Tomasza archidiakona Splitu. Część 2. Postrzeganie Massagetów. 1) Kontekst „scytyjski”

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Spychała L.

Studia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis

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2021

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vol. 6

174-238

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This article is a continuation of the previously published Hungarians as pars aliqua gentis Massagetum. Sources of the late antic and early medieval era scholarship in the work of Thomas of Split (SAMAI 5, 2020, 155-195), which showed, based on Thomas of Split’s linking of the Massagetae ethnonym and the similarities between 9th century Hungarians and the Scythian peoples, the so called Scythian context, i.e. the identification in ancient and medieval writings (after ca. 1266) of the Massageteans with the land lying versus orientem. From the review of the source materials presented in this article, it is clearly visible that since the times of Herodotus the Massageteans have been linked with the Scythians, or the land known as Scythia, the borders of which differ depending on the source. While in ancient literature the location of the Massagetian lands was integrated into the "geographical realities" abounding in various ethnic and geographical names, after the 6th century that view changed and Massageteans were associated with the biblical Magog, son of Japheth and, above all, with the "Scythians", who in the background were identified with the Goths and Gets.

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Lech’s Supposed Origins in Croatia: Regarding the Identification of the Rivers Huy and Krupa in the Works of Jan Długosz and Maciej of Miechów

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Kekez H.

Kwartalnik Historyczny

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2019

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vol. 126

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issue 3

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The present article is a further contribution to the debate on the famous late medieval and early Renaissance narrative of the legendary origins of the Poles. The paper focuses on the legendary castle of ‘Psary’ - the ‘ancestral home’ of Prince Lech, that is on the geographical information given by chroniclers Jan Długosz and Maciej of Miechów in their writings. The author dismisses the identification of ‘Psary’ with Krapina or Pharos (Starigrad on the island of Hvar), arguing that ‘Psary’ was the medieval Minor Pset most likely located on top of Pušačko Hill (Pušačko brdo) in the vicinity of the late medieval castle Krupa (present-day Bosanska Krupa in Bosnia and Herzegovina).

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Opowieść etnogenetyczna a warsztat szesnastowiecznego historyka

Duńskie koncepcje Origo gentis w nowożytnej historiografii

Węgrzy jako pars aliqua gentis Massagetum. Ślady późnoantycznej i wczesnośredniowiecznej uczoności w dziele Tomasza archidiakona Splitu. Część 2. Postrzeganie Massagetów. 1) Kontekst „scytyjski”

Lech’s Supposed Origins in Croatia: Regarding the Identification of the Rivers Huy and Krupa in the Works of Jan Długosz and Maciej of Miechów