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In this article, I focus on the dialectal jargon stylization in “Kujawskie legendy, gawędy i gadki” (Wrocław 2012, hereinafter referred to as KL) collected and adapted by Antoni Benedykt Łukaszewicz, to subsequently answer the question to what extent the linguistic exponents fall within the system of the Kujawy dialect and whether the texts compiled in the KL can be regarded as representative for the Kujawy region. As the material is fairly extensive, I limited the excerption to phonetic stylistic exponents, which I firstly compared with other studies of the Kujawy dialect and later with the scientific syntheses linked with the Polish dialectology. Based on the analyzed material I came to a conclusion that the most frequently applied exponents are narrowing of the vowels, de-nasalization of the nasal consonants, onset preiotation and labialization, and consonant reduction. Deviations from the ablaut or inter-word voicing phonetics are quite rare. The majority of these phenomena occur in the regions of Wielkopolska, Northern Poland and Mazowsze. They are characteristic not only of Kujawy but of a broader dialectal complex. Undoubtedly, their use in Kujawy appears to be common and the frequency of their occurrence in the text may point out to application of reconstructive stylization, which to a large extent is closer to the basis, i.e. the stylization model signifying the author’s attempt at a fairly consistent reflection of the systemic features of the Kujawy dialect.
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The primary source base for research on urban literacy in Kujawy are documents and letters, addressed to the town councils of big cities of Prussia that were drawn up in the offices of several cities (Włocławek, Inowrocław, Radziejów, Brześć Kujawski, Bydgoszcz, Gniewkowo). They are currently stored in the archives in Toruń and Gdańsk. Moreover, there are court books, city council records and bench court registers (Radziejów, Brześć Kujawski, Kowal, Przedecz) in different condition. Another group of sources are the statutes of the guilds in Bydgoszcz. In their view Kujawy appears as an area of high legal culture and rich urban literacy, which - in comparison with other regions of the Polish Kingdom - developed relatively early. This was because of trade contacts between the townspeople of Kujawy and the State of Teutonic Knights and the need to use of the same work and communications tools, as they and merchants of Hansa had. Municipal offices, employing professional, well-educated writers, were not the only centers of urban culture. Late Medieval Kujawy had also a well developed network of parochial schools under guardianship of the councilors, still only a few bourgeois sons went the University of Krakow. It seems that in their case, more important role in education played educational and cultural institutions in Prussia, cathedral schools (Włocławek) and collegiate schools (Kruszwica).
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This paper discusses the problem of Polish-Ruthenian contacts at an early stage of the Piast realm (from the rule of Mieszko I to the end of Mieszko II’s rule), focusing on the significance of written sources. It also looks at place names, possibly related to the Ruthenian population, and archaeological sources.
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In the earlier literature, it was commonly assumed that strongholds were church centres. This was due to a belief in the rapid progress of Christianity in Poland and the significant role of Mieszko I in the process. However, more recent studies on the strongholds and religious architecture have shown that such views were too optimistic. The number of churches erected under Mieszko I was much smaller than it was previously assumed. In fact, the process of the Christianisation of the population in the second half of the tenth and the eleventh centuries was long and arduous. This is particularly evident in Kujawy – a region that is peripheral, yet lies near the heart of the Piast domain. There were few construction projects related to the development of church structures in the eleventh century in the region. What is more, people in Kujawy held firm to their tribal traditions, and their deep-rooted beliefs are most evident in the funeral rite. It appears therefore that this was a time religious dualism in the Piast governance.
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The article fi rst discusses the economic organisation of the Piast state; such toponyms as Konary and Kobylniki are given particular attention. The historical region of Kujawy has provided the starting point for further analysis. Historical sources were explored in search of the fi rst mentions of the villages in question. At the same time, attempts were made to correlate the location of the villages with the location of meadows and pastures suitable for grazing horses. Then, archaeological record from Kujawy confi rming the use of horses was analysed, notably fi nds of spurs and horseshoes. The paper discusses centres of princely rule (Brześć Kujawski and Kruszwica) that yielded evidence confi rming the use of horses. Equestrian elements have been also recorded at early medieval cemeteries; the article investigates selected excavated sites throughout the Piast domain, including Lutomiersk, Końskie, Pokrzywnica Wielka, Łączyn Stary, Korzybie Duże, Czersk, Daniłow Mały, Sowinki and Dziekanowice.
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Archaeological excavations carried out by Patrimonium Foundation at site Dąbrówka 9, com. Kowal, in 2009 provided a unique assemblage of a series of blades made on so-called chocolate flint. Refitting of blades permitted reconstruction of core reduction stages. However, there the question arises of what was the origin of the find – a purpose for which the artefacts were brought to and finally deposited at the site. The blades were produced outside the site Dąbrówka 9 and they are represented either by very even regular ones – “select”, as well as debitage of the core reduction. Use-wear analysis, however, proved that each artefact had been at least sporadically used.
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Probably there is no need to convince anyone that the late medieval land and municipal registers are the most important sources for social history of the Polish late Middle Ages. In the case of Kujawy we do not have, unfortunately, medieval registers of local tribunals for nobles of Inowrocław Voivodeship [local government and administration unit] as well as for Kruszwica district [starostwo - crown lands administrated by a royal official, i.e. starosta] and Radziejów district from the region of Brześć Kujawski. All of these series of books were destroyed with a high degree of probability during the Swedish „deluge” in the mid–17th century. Medieval registers of local tribunals for nobles for other districts located in the southern Kujawy, i.e. Brześć Kujawski (from 1437), Kowal (1441) and Przedecz (since 1474) were preserved slightly better. It should be stressed that in all these series of books we are dealing with gaps in the preserved material. Discussed in this text the south–Kujawy registers of local tribunals for nobles from the holdings of The Central Archives of Historical Records are the most important sources for research on the history of the late medieval districts of Brześć Kujawski voivodeship. In addition to specific personal information about people who took the office of starost of districts of Brześć, Przedecz and Kowal, along with the dates of their terms as starost, datas obtained from books that are here discussed, show that history of lands governed during that period was much more complicated than it had been described in the existing literature. Especially variable was administrative membership of Kowal district, which was twice excluded from the jurisdiction of the district of Brześć (1438–1442 and 1454?–1462) and double–backed under the control of starost of Brześć by buying up the king’s debts on Kowal. It was not until the early 16th century that Kowal obtained the status of a permanent independent district, managed by a separate starost due to king’s debts to voevoda Mikołaj Kościelecki from Skępe. Registers of local tribunals for nobles of Brześć, Kowal and Przedecz districts along with other sources give information on one more interesting institution in districts located in southern Kujawy area in the late Middle Ages. It is about heirs of deceased starosts, who had right to use the full titulary and took the office of their deceased predecessors (always for a short time) only until the arrival of the successors nominated by the king (Andrzej Kretkowski after his father Jan; Jan of Kobylany after the death of his brother Jakub; Jan Jaranda from Brudzewo after death of his father Mikołaj in Brześć district; Adam with his brother Jan z Woźnik in Przedecz district) or people replacing the newly appointed district starosts, who were heading to Kujawy only to cover obtained from king district (Mikołaj Słup from Wierzbick starost of Brześć replacing Jan Kretkowski until his arrival from Hungary). It should be noted that throughout the so-called Greater Wielkopolska there is no similar institution, the same refers to the lands of Sieradz and Łęczyca, and districts of Wielkopolska.
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Celem artykułu było przedstawienie cech konstytuujących tożsamość kujawską na podstawie opracowania Antoniego Benedykta Łukaszewicza Kujawskie legendy, gawędy i gadki. Analiza zabytku pokazała, że należą do nich: odwoływanie się do mitów założycielskich, które są tworzone i upowszechniane po to, by potwierdzić zakorzenienie grupy i jej długiego (od czasów niemal prehistorycznych) trwania na danym obszarze; przywiązanie do religii katolickiej (co nie przeszkadza łączyć praktyki religijne z praktykami magicznymi, obecnymi w religijności ludowej); pamięć przeszłości (a zwłaszcza przeszłości heroicznej, jak bitwa pod Płowcami, ale i wydarzeń traumatycznych, bolesnych, jak II wojna światowa, cierpienia, prześladowania Kujawiaków w różnych okresach dziejów, rozdarcie regionu spowodowane zaborami); związek z miejscami (zabytkami architektury, kościołami, dworami), które są dziedzictwem otrzymanym po wcześniejszych pokoleniach; świadomość bogactwa miejscowego folkloru, obrzędów (nie zawsze już praktykowanych, ale wciąż pozostających w pamięci kulturowej); gwara (choć współcześnie nie ma już często żywotności komunikacyjnej, ale ciągle ma walor symboliczny, podkreślający odrębność Kujaw jako regionu).
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The aim of this article was to present the features constituting Kuyavian identity on the basis of the study of Antoni Benedykt Łukaszewicz titled Kuyavian legends, myths and folk tales. The analysis of the oldest written text showed that this comprises: –referring to founding myths which are created and spread in order to confirm the settlement of the group and its long existence (almost since prehistoric times) in the given area; –commitment to the catholic religion (which is not an obstacle to combine religious practices with magical practises present in the folk beliefs); –memory of the past (especially the heroic past, such as the battle of Płowce, also such traumatic and painful events as World War II, the suffering and persecution of the inhabitants of Kuyavia in various periods, the division of the region caused by the annexations); –relation to the places (architectural monuments, churches, manor houses) which are a heritage received from previous generations; –the awareness of the wealth of the local folklore and habits (not always being practised nowadays, but still existing in cultural memory); –dialect (although it is not used in communication, it still has a symbolic value underlining the identity of the region).
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The Tążyna river is one of not large Kuyavian tributaries of the Vistula river. A unique feature of this river catchment area is a very high degree of biodiversity. It comprises, among others, the co-occurrence of zones of various lithology and genesis (morainic plains, valleys with outwash plain formations, outwash plains with holes) and relatively shallow occurrence of salt deposits supplying the groundwater with brine. They are accompanied by the occurrence of halophytes. The discussed region also abounds in numerous archaeological sources dated to the Neolithic. They document complicated processes of the Tążyna basin domestication. They were initiated by the appearance of agricultural societies of the Linear Pottery culture exploiting the environment of soils with the highest agricultural values. These groups also made an attempt of “tactical” use of podzols environments, however, due to its failure within the following centuries, they concentrated on earlier exploited areas. A real breakthrough was brought by the occurrence of the Funnel Beaker culture societies. They were mainly interested in less abundant, hitherto not used in terms of economy, environments. Probably at that time brine springs were also exploited. An excellent example of a settlement from this period is Wilkostowo 23/24 – one of the best recognized complexes of „funnel beakers” in Europe. In the following centuries the Tążyna basin was the scene of activeness of societies realising more mobile („globular amphoras” and „corded ware”) economic strategies. The state of preservation and prospects of the Neolithic sites survival adversely correspond to the outstanding cognitive significance of the region under consideration. During the recent thirty – forty years a sharp increase of threats to part of them – especially to these located on the weakest soils (developed on sandy substratum) took place. Their areas are nowadays afforested, objects connected with vegetables storage are located on them, and they become purposes of minerals (sand, gravel) exploitation. In such a situation it is necessary to implement a local programme of protection of sites dated to the Neolithic. The author postulates that it should include verifying surface surveys, excavations and educational actions.
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This article discusses the unique ornamentation of a vessel from a grave assemblage discovered in unspecified circumstances in the village of Anusin in Kujawy before World War II. The vessel, most probably of the Cloche Grave Culture, can be dated to the Early Iron Age. This globular cinerary urn is decorated with a grid of cord-like impressions. The pattern is most similar to the ornaments known from the face urns of the Pomeranian Culture. The false cord impressions were probably made with a tool resembling a hoop earring wrapped in coiled wire. Such items of adornment, with Eastern references, were popular in the Tarnobrzeg Lusatian Culture (e.g. Trzęsówka type coils) and are also found in Kujawy. The vessel from Anusin is therefore an example of an object combining various pottery and ornamental traditions of the communities settled in Kujawy around the middle of the 1st millennium BC.
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Artykuł podejmuje problematykę obecną w dyskursie naukowym od lat 70. XX wieku na temat wykorzystywania w słownikach gwarowych materiałów etnograficznych i tekstów folkloru. Powrót do tej kwestii łączy się ściśle z doborem źródeł do tworzonej aktualnie bazy empirycznej słownika gwarowo-kulturowego Kujaw. „Krzyżowanie” danych dialektologicznych i etnograficznych w tego typu leksykonie, rejestrującym słownictwo gwarowe o różnej chronologii, znajduje istotne uzasadnienie. Zbiór kujawskich tekstów gwarowych jest zbyt skromny, by można było na jego podstawie dokonać ekscerpcji leksyki, która odzwierciedlałaby bogactwo kultury regionalnej. Rezerwuarem słownictwa gwarowego w tej sytuacji są liczne opracowania specjalistyczne z zakresu folkloru słownego i kultury materialnej wsi kujawskiej. Na przykładzie hasła 'pindyrynda' ukazano, jak można zrekonstruować polisemiczność nazwy, gdy połączy się dane dialektologiczne z etnograficznymi.
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The article discusses the issues of using the ethnographic material and folkloric texts in the dictionaries of dialects. The aforementioned problems have been present in the scientific discourse since 1970s. Those issues are echoed in the selection of sources creating the empirical base for the dictionary of culture and dialect of Kujawy. A lexicon that records dialectal vocabulary of different chronology allows such “crossing” of dialectological and ethnographic data. The collection of dialectal texts from Kujawy is too limited to constitute the basis of analyzed vocabulary. Thus, the lexicon of dialectal vocabulary will be in that case based on many specialist studies in the field of verbal folklore and material culture of the villages of Kujawy. For example, the word 'pindyrynda' was chosen to show how to reconstruct a polysemic name, when dialectological data are combined with ethnographic ones.
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This article deals with the issues of an 11th century grave field in Morawy village in Kuyavia. In the first Piasts times, the area was an integral part of the dynasty’s dominion. Discovered in the 1930s, the grave field is of great importance from the point of view of considerations of ethnically foreign settlement in Poland. At the same time, the grave field registered by Stanisław Madajski supplements our knowledge of the advancement of Christianity in the 11th century in Poland. The knowledge of the necropolis, especially general access to the results of the excavations in Morawy, were unsatisfactory. Therefore, an attempt was made to re-discuss the results of the excavations from 1937, verified in the field in 2015. As part of the new research, the formerly excavated material was verified, topped with archive search queries aimed at recognising open settlement in the village of Morawy and the grave field itself.
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Mały słownik gwary kujawskiej compiled by Katarzyna Podczaska came into being "out of concern for our Cuiavian roots… in the hope of retaining them for the next generations, so that they would survive and enchant readers with their beauty". However, it contains many defects and cases of inattention, such as: a poor selection of the sources used and a laconic description of them; the lack of quotations illustrating the use of particular words in context and their source location; wrongly quoted definitions; inconsistently prepared dictionary entries. This may have resulted from the fact that the dictionary was prepared by a non-linguist. However, once completed and corrected, it certainly can to become an important and precious publication for our region
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The Jewish population settled in Kuyavia as early as at the beginning of the 15th century, primarily in royal towns, and, later on, in large numers, also in private towns. As for church towns, Jews were usually not allowed to settle there at all. One of such towns was Strzelno, owned by the local Norbertine order. This situation did not change until 1772, when, as a result of the First Partition of Poland, the town came under Prussian control. Despite the initially unfriendly legislation for Jews, who were barely tolerated during the reign of Frederick II, this group of people quite willingly began to settle in towns that had hitherto been closed to them. The first source of information about Jews living in Strzelno dates back to 1779–1780. This proves that they must have settled in the second half of the 1870s, probably in connection with a fire in the Jewish quarter in Inowrocław in 1775. Initially, the percentage of the Jewish population in Strzelno oscillated around 3%, to rise to about 4% in the period of the Duchy of Warsaw. However, shortly after Strzelno came under Prussian rule again, the number of local Jews doubled.
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Na Kujawach ludność żydowska zaczęła się osiedlać już w początku XV wieku, najpierw przede wszystkim w miastach królewskich, aby następnie licznie zamieszkać miasta prywatne. W ośrodkach dóbr kościelnych zazwyczaj w ogóle nie dopuszczano do osiedlania się Żydów. Do tej grupy zaliczało się również Strzelno, będące własnością tamtejszego klasztoru norbertanek. Sytuacja ta zmieniła się dopiero po 1772 roku, gdy w wyniku pierwszego rozbioru Polski miasto znalazło się pod zaborem pruskim. Pomimo początkowo nieprzyjaznego dla Żydów ustawodawstwa, za panowania Fryderyka II zaledwie tolerowanych, ta grupa ludności dość chętnie zaczęła napływać do miast, które dotychczas były dla niej zamknięte. Pierwsza informacja źródłowa o Żydach zamieszkujących Strzelno pochodzi z lat 1779–1780. Dowodzi to, że musieli się osiedlić już w drugiej połowie lat 70. XVIII wieku, prawdopodobnie w związku z pożarem dzielnicy żydowskiej w Inowrocławiu w 1775 roku. Początkowo odsetek ludności żydowskiej w Strzelnie oscylował wokół 3%, aby w okresie Księstwa Warszawskiego wzrosnąć do około 4%. Natomiast tuż po ponownym przejściu Strzelna pod władzę Prus liczba tamtejszych Żydów podwoiła się.
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In the 1950s, cremation graves of the Lusatian Culture were discovered by chance at Kępka Szlachecka. The archaeological site is located on a hill surrounded to the south and west by Kępskie Lake and to the east by the River Lubieńka (Fig. 1, 3, 4). Two small earthen vessels and few fragments of cremated human bones have survived to this day in the hands of private owners. It is known that at least one more, larger, vessel – a cinerary urn, now lost – complemented the assemblage. The preserved pottery consists of:1. A small amphora, decorated at the base of the neck with a horizontal groove (Fig. 2:a–c); 2. A small cup or mug (Fig. 2:d–f). The dimensions of the artefacts suggest that they served as accessory vessels. The dating of the pottery falls within a broad chronological range extending from Bronze Age IV to Hallstatt D. The cemetery at Kępka Szlachecka has not been previously mentioned in the literature. A map of the Archaeological Polish Record shows five archaeological sites located to the north of Kępskie Lake (Fig. 3), but only one of them (no. 4) yielded three pottery sherds that may date to the time of the development of the Lusatian Culture.
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W latach 50. XX wieku w Kępce Szlacheckiej zostały przypadkowo znalezione groby ciałopalne ludności kultury łużyckiej. Stanowisko archeologiczne położone jest na wzniesieniu otoczonym od południa i zachodu Jeziorem Kępskim, zaś od wschodu – rzeką Lubieńką (Ryc. 1; 4). Obecnie niewielka część odkrytych przedmiotów znajduje się w rękach prywatnych. Do dziś przetrwały dwa nieduże naczynia gliniane oraz pojedyncze fragmenty przepalonych kości ludzkich. Wiadomo, że zbiór uzupełniała przynajmniej większa popielnica, która zaginęła. Zachowana ceramika to: 1. Mała amfora, zdobiona u nasady szyjki poziomo rytą bruzdą (Ryc. 2:a-c). 2. Niewielki czerpak lub kubek (Ryc. 2:d-f). Opisane przedmioty są pozostałością po zniszczonym grobie ciałopalnym ludności kultury łużyckiej. Wymiary naczyń glinianych wskazują, że w przeszłości pełniły funkcję przystawek. Ceramikę można datować w szerokim przedziale chronologicznym, od IV okresu epoki brązu do podokresu Hallstatt D. Nekropola z Kępki Szlacheckiej nie była do tej pory znana w literaturze. Na mapie AZP na północ od Jeziora Kępskiego zlokalizowanych jest 5 stanowisk archeologicznych (ryc. 3), ale tylko na jednym (nr 4) znaleziono 3 fragmenty ceramiki, które być może pochodzą z czasu rozwoju kultury łużyckiej.
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In January 1480, in the court of Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki of Włocławek a few burgers of Inowrocław were summoned to testify about local supporters of Hussitism. Over the ten months, more than a dozen people were interrogated whose testimonies shed light on the activities of small groups of Kuyavian Utraquists over the course of over half a century. Testimonies of individuals suspected of heresy and witnesses, as well as notes regarding other judicial activities, were recorded in separate documentation, which constitutes the preliminary part of the oldest court book of Kuyavian bishops (currently in the Diocesan Archive in Włocławek, under reference number 011). The article analyses the creation and structure of this documentation, and at the same time shows the role of the bishop, the cathedral chapter, and the papal inquisitor in inquisitorial operations against Kuyavian adherents of Utraquism.
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W styczniu 1480 r., przed sądem biskupa włocławskiego Zbigniewa Oleśnickiego rozpoczęły się przesłuchania mieszkańców Inowrocławia w sprawie miejscowych sympatyków husytyzmu. W ciągu 10 miesięcy przesłuchano kilkanaście osób, których zeznania rzuciły światło na działalność niewielkich grup utrakwistów kujawskich na przestrzeni ponad pół wieku. Zeznania osób podejrzewanych o herezję i świadków, a także zapiski dotyczące innych czynności procesowych zostały zapisane w wyodrębnionej dokumentacji, która stanowi wstępną część najstarszej zachowanej włocławskiej księgi biskupiej (Archiwum Diecezjalnym we Włocławsku, sygn. 011). Artykuł analizuje powstanie i strukturę tej dokumentacji, a zarazem ukazuje rolę biskupa, kapituły katedralnej, a także papieskiego inkwizytora w działaniach inkwizycyjnych przeciwko kujawskim zwolennikom utrakwizmu.
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The article deals with the issues concerning an extent and nature of cultural contacts between the early Piasts’ populations and Scandinavia, as reflected by archaeological evidence. The contacts with Carolingian and Ottonian cultures were recorded in sociotopography of leading fortified settlements and also in reception of secular and sacral forms of pre-Romanesque architecture.
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