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Zapiski Historyczne
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2014
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vol. 79
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issue 3
85-103
EN
The aim of the article is to rectify numerous mistakes appearing in literature concerning the two oldest manuscripts Plates offounders and benefactors of the Cistercian monastery in Oliwa stored in Sweden. The analysis of the manuscripts has facilitated new hypotheses connected with their creation. It has been established that the paper manuscript kept in Kungliga Biblioteket in Stockholm with the entry number D 1360 was written shortly after the death of King Aleksander Jagiellon in the autumn of 1506 before Sigismund the Old took the throne. The reason for its creation was the willingness to include King Aleksander among the benefactors of the monastery of Oliwa in order to express thanks for the confrmation of all the privileges hitherto granted and the new privileges granted in 1505 by Stefan Falk. The author or inspirer of the manuscript was the abbot of the monastery at that time Grzegorz Stolzenfot. The second code, stored in Stadsbibliotek in Linköping with the entry number H3a, consists of two paper manuscripts combined with each other probably in the 18th century. The first manuscript, written in the second half of the 15th century, includes the texts Plates (k. 1v–5r) and was torn out from a larger manuscript which was a collection of various works. The other manuscript created in the 14th century contains copies of four documents for the Cistercian monastery in Doberan (Pelplin). It has been established that the text of Plates published by Jarosław Wenta in the article of 1998 is in fact a reprint of the 19th century edition of Wojciech Kętrzyński, which only in selected fragments includes the text from the manuscript H3a. As a result of the inquiry it has been established that there was only one (not three) copies of the manuscript of H3a from Linköping – it is the copy “a” by Eric Benzelius of 1710 made in Uppsala (Linköping entry number T67). The remaining two are merely transcripts of the copy by Benzelius: the Greifswald copy and the Gdańsk copy of Strehlke.
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‘Szczecin’ was a journal that was coming out in the years 1957–1962 as a direct forerunner of the ‘West-Pomeranian Journal’ (Przegląd Zachodniopomorski). So far the contents of the ‘Szczecin’ Journal, as well as its role in shaping the academic community and in influencing the economic, social and political reality have not been fully analysed. Hence the conclusion that this role is underestimated o even deprecated. In all the issues of ‘Szczecin’ historical questions were covered most extensively. Yet, according to what its editor-in-chief, Henryk Lesiński, had announced the journal was to be open to all the disciplines of social science and humanities. As a result, in addition to the historical questions, the journal also dealt with literary and economic problems. Among the authors there were not only representatives of the Szczecin academic community, but scholars from outside as well. In 1963 ‘Szczecin’ was transformed into the ‘West-Pomeranian Journal’, which has been published to date. The change of the name was caused by practical aspects: the former title suggested a narrow fi eld of interest, limited to the West-Pomeranian capital. After the change the regional character of the journal has been better emphasised.
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In 1964 one of the most important academic journals of the Szczecin academic community, ‘Szczecin’, was transformed into the ‘West-Pomeranian Journal’ (Przegląd Zachodniopomorski); after the change it was still created mainly by historians. Together with the change the journal received more solid fi nancial foundations, a proper background of authors, and it became a strictly academic quarterly. In the years 1963–1985 the journal was run by Henryk Lesiński, in the years 1985–2012 by Tadeusz Białecki. In the editorial staff there were some outstanding personalities of several academic disciplines from Szczecin. The articles published covered the questions of history, Polish studies, sociology, economics, demography, law, culture, architecture, Polish-German relations, West- Pomeranian geography. There were also published monothematic studies, session materials and jubilee issues of outstanding representatives of the academic community. The editors managed to present a signifi cant part of the local academic production in the pages of the journal and to infl uence the development of the local academic community. There were articles from other academic centres in Poland and in the German Democratic Republic. In the 1960s and 1970s the contents of the journal show that its signifi cant part did not deal with the humanities subjects; there were many materials from the sphere of economy, agricultural and marine sciences, the favourite guilds of the State and the Party. However, in the 1980s those spheres gradually disappeared from the pages of the journal. The Szczecin scholars who wrote for the journal represented the local universities and other humanistic institutions. In the materials concerning history all the historical epochs were dealt with. The journal was the brainchild of the People’s Republic of Poland and the scientifi c policy of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR). With the passing of time, endeavours of the founders and editors and the local communities in three generations converted the journal into an important forum to elevate the successive young generations of humanists. On the other hand, in the fi rst quarter of the century of its existence, or a bit longer, the contents of the ‘West-Pomeranian Journal’ refl ected the German occupation experiences and the political views of the founders and their attitude of admiration towards the socialist regime and their acceptance of the historic alliance with the socialist Germany. They claimed that there was no alternative for what had happened in Poland after 1944/45. They rendered considerable services to create successive generations of Polish intelligentsia in the Polish West. If the journal is analysed from the standpoint of today, if the endeavours of its founders and editors and the whole academic community are taken into consideration, if it is seen as the work of three generations, it is becoming obvious that the journal has been an important forum to elevate the successive young generations of humanists. In the sphere of the humanities the questions most frequently treated have been the ones taken from history, sociology, the history of art and the history of architecture. As far as history is concerned, it has been the Szczecin community that contributed most to the journal; in the pages of the journal new historical epochs have appeared, the problems have been treated more precisely, the methodological tools have become more sophisticated; these facts prove that the academic community of Szczecin and Western Pomerania has made progress and has consolidated.
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Thomas Kantzow, a chronicler affiliated with the court of Pomeranian Dukes, mentioned Poland several times in his work titled Pomerania. It seems that he was not as interested in the neighbouring country as in the relations between Poland and the Teutonic Order. Nearly all references to Poland come from the chronicle of Jan Długosz. Although the citations were quite accurate, their placement in Kantzow’s narration changed the meaning of the entire story. These measures allowed the Pomeranian chronicler to create a highly negative image of the Teutonic Order, presented not only as the enemy of the Duchy of Pomerania, but also as the foe of other Christian countries. Amongst the crimes and vices of Teutonic monks Kantzow enumerated cruelty, greed and breaking of agreements. Surprisingly, disobedience against the Pope was also mentioned, though the chronicler himself was Protestant.
PL
Związany z dworem książąt pomorskich kronikarz Thomas Kantzow kilkakrotnie wspominał w swoim dziele, zatytułowanym Pomerania, o Polsce. Wydaje się jednak, że nie tyle interesował go sąsiedni kraj, co stosunki polsko-krzyżackie. Prawie wszystkie wzmianki o Polsce pochodzą z kroniki Jana Długosza. Mimo że tekst polskiego pisarza został przytoczony dość wiernie, to jednak umieszczenie przytaczanych fragmentów w określonych miejscach narracji Pomorzanina spowodowało zmianę znaczenia całości wypowiedzi. Zabiegi te pozwoliły Kantzowowi na stworzenie negatywnego wizerunku zakonu krzyżackiego, przedstawionego w dziele kronikarza nie tylko jako wroga Pomorza, ale także innych państw chrześcijańskich. Wśród zbrodni, wad i przewinień Krzyżaków Kantzow wymienia okrucieństwo, chciwość i łamanie umów. Co ciekawe, na liście przewinień znalazło się nieposłuszeństwo wobec papieża, a przecież nasz autor był protestantem.
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