Wielkopolska Chronicle

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The Wielkopolska Chronicle tells the Polish history in Latin from the Kraków founding legend up to 1273 from a Wielkopolska perspective.

The original of the chronicle has not survived. It has come down to us as a copy in a source compilation from the 14th century with the title Chronica longa seu magna Polonorum seu Lechitarum. The time of origin and the author of the chronicle are controversial in research: While Polish historical scholarship today predominantly assumes that Johann von Czarnków wrote the chronicle in the 14th century, the editor of the chronicle, Brygida Kürbis , took an anonymous author at the time of King Przemysł II. Towards the end of the 13th century, the text of which was then interpolated by Czarnków. The use of older templates can be determined for individual sections. The chronicle contains a story by the Poznan Bishop Bogufał II about his vision of the unification of Poland, which he had in 1249 and which he writes in the first person singular. This part is from the year 1295/1296.

Formally, the chronicle can be divided into a historiographical and an annalistic part. The historiographically drafted reporting period goes back to the year 1202 and is based on the older Chronica Polonorum by Wincenty Kadłubek . The annalistic part that follows appears to be based on the yearbooks of the Gniezno and Poznan cathedral chapters . In terms of content, the Wielkopolska Chronicle served in the tradition of gesta to portray and glorify the deeds of the Polish dukes and kings of the 13th century. The story of the Poznan bishop Bogufał II contains information about the political situation of the Elbe Slavs in the 12th century. It is one of the few contemporary sources of Slavic origin on the history of the Elbe Slavs.

Editions

  • Brygida Pumpkin (Ed.): Chronica Poloniae maioris. (= Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Series Nova, Vol. 8. ) Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1970.

literature

  • Ryszard Grzesik: Medieval Chronicle in East Central Europe. In: Gerhard Wolf, Norbert H. Ott (Ed.): Handbook Chronicles of the Middle Ages. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-034171-3 , pp. 773-804, here pp. 791-793.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Ryszard Grzesik: Medieval Chronicle in East Central Europe. In: Gerhard Wolf, Norbert H. Ott (Ed.): Handbook Chronicles of the Middle Ages. De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-034171-3 , pp. 773-804, here p. 792
  2. ^ Friedrich Wigger: The Bishop Boguphal of Posen news about Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 27 (1862), pp. 124-130.