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Wprowadzenie kalendarza gregoriańskiego na Pomorzu Zachodnim w 1700 roku

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Gut A.

Przegląd Zachodniopomorski

2016

issue 2

69-88

The change of the Julian Calendar into a ‘corrected’ calendar did not cause any commotion in Western Pomerania. In the official sources there are no traces left of social reaction to the removal of 11 days in 1700 that would have been similar to the reactions of the English street to a analogous calendar reform in 1752. We do not know the feelings of an average Pomeranian, in whose life the day of February 18th, 1700 was followed by March 1st, 1700. The only problem we now know about was the one concerning printing new calendars. In the Brandenburg-Prussian part it resulted from the introduction of the state monopoly on printing yearbooks granted to a newly created Scientific Society in Berlin. The local printers protested, included Johann Nicolaus Ernst, the official printer of the province, but to no avail. In the Swedish part that type of state directives were not implemented, but the local printers were quite interested in the change; what mattered there was the fact that the ruler granted the privilege of printing the official calendar to the Province, which led to a long-running dispute among printers.

Rytm pracy w kancelarii księcia wschodniopomorskiego, Mściwoja II (1266–1294)

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Gut A.

Przegląd Zachodniopomorski

2016

issue 1

53-72

The article analyses all the documents issued by the 13th-century chancellery of Mestwin II, an East Pomeranian Duke, year by year, as well as in particular months and days. These data have been processed statistically in order to obtain cyclical and seasonal fluctuations in the rhythm of work in the Chancellery. The results of the analysis prove that Mestwin’s Chancellery, like all the Medieval Chancelleries, generally functioned on a permanent basis. Yet, some cyclical and seasonal fluctuations may be detected, which shows the uniqueness of chancellery work at the court of the last of the Samborides (German: Samboriden, Polish: dynastia Sobiesławiców). What was noticed in the case of the annual cycles was an increase of documents issued each year after 1273, which might be associated with a process, speeded up under Mestwin, of strengthening the legal role of documents as evidential proof or a way to realise political objectives. Yet, that steady process was disrupted in the years in which the number of diplomas issued was decisively higher. Those increases resulted from the current needs of external and internal policies. The analysis of the rhythm of work in particular years indicates some seasonal fluctuations caused by the year’s seasons, because fewer documents were issued in autumn and winter. Seasonal fluctuations were also caused by the liturgical calendar, because the dating of documents were cumulated during some ecclesiastical holidays, like Lent or Christmas. It is also probable that the liturgical calendar influenced the chancellery’s activity during the week, as the most documents were dated on Monday; it may result from the fact that the legal activities made public during the Sunday’s Mass were put down on paper on that day. Many documents were also dated on Sunday, as well as on Friday, which may be connected with the ceremony of diploma handing in on dies Dominicus.

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Wprowadzenie kalendarza gregoriańskiego na Pomorzu Zachodnim w 1700 roku

Rytm pracy w kancelarii księcia wschodniopomorskiego, Mściwoja II (1266–1294)