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Artykuł omawia pracę Andrzeja Pleszczyńskiego dotyczącą przedstawienia obrazu Polski i jej mieszkańców nie tylko w historiografii, ale w ogóle w komunikatach pisanych i ikonograficznych powstałych w Niemczech od drugiej połowy X w. do 1370 r. Autor artykułu zwraca uwagę na dyskusyjny charakter przyjętego przez Pleszczyńskiego założenia o istnieniu w badanym okresie dwóch spójnych narodów – niemieckiego i polskiego. Podkreśla, że część tekstów mogła powstać jako wyraz tożsamości regionalnej. The article discusses the book by Andrzej Pleszczyński on the image of Poland and its people presented not only in historiography, but also in all written and iconographic materials produced in Germany between the second half of the tenth century and 1370. The article’s author pays attention to the discursive character of Pleszczyński’s assumption about the existence of two organized and cohesive nations in the analysed period – the German and the Polish one. He emphasizes that some of the texts could have been written as expression of the regional identity.
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Activities of social groups, which cause relations between the people of a society, constitute a crucial aspect of a given region’s nature. Did the political and social elite of the Oder region area (Nadodrze), in the time from the latter part of the 12th century until the latter part of the 15th century, take intentionally coordinated, mutually agreed upon actions. Or, after being forced by external factors to take such actions, did they continue to coordinate their activities after external factors ceased to be operative. Yet another question is, did the members of this political elite consider in their activities the notion of a unified, territorial unit called “Silesia”? Various political activities of the Nadodrze elite in the Middle Ages makes establishing a unified model of the formation of regional unity unfeasible. Activities undertaken by the dukes maintained the awareness of Silesia’s unity despite their, and their entourage’s, tendencies to focus on the importance of these small duchies. The dukes focused their activities, via conventions and confederations, towards building community awareness, combining thus far separate elites of individual duchies, especially the society of southern and middle part of Nadodrze. Despite the extended cooperation on various issues, which extended beyond the borders of specific duchies, in the latter part of the 14th and early 15th centuries, separatist tendencies were still extant. Silesian society, forged through political activities of its elite was by nature a network, which reacted dynamically to influences from its surroundings. The structure hardened sometimes, although its members valued locality at least as high as their regional identity.
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The aim of this article is to investigate what role was played by referring to the local history in the space of Lower Silesian towns in shaping the identity of their inhabitants. An analysis of the names of streets, monuments as well as of policies and declarations issued by the self-government entities and activities undertaken by the inhabitants themselves indicate that both in the town space and in the identity of the inhabitants, references to the past of the nation dominate. Local issues are very rarely invoked. The situation is different in Wrocław, capital city of the region, where the inhabitant’s identity has been built on pride in the past glory of the town – times both before and after 1945.
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The collection of articles presented within concerns the results of the first part of research, the focus of which are the Middle Ages, pertaining to the cohesion of the region of Silesia, undertaken as part of the project „Cuius regio”. An analysis of the cohesive and disruptive forces determining the attachment and commitment of groups of persons to and the cohesion within regions as a historical phenomenon. The deliberations concerning Silesia are under the supervision of prof. Dick de Boer of Groningen, whose program is under the auspices of the European Science Foundation. Both the part concerning the Middle Ages, contained herein, as well as following chapters, concerning the modern times of the “long” 19th century (1740-1918) and the 20th century will be published in „Sobótka”. The extended, English version will appear in book form as well as online publications available via the Open Access policy.
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