09/05/2026
Memory, State, and Past Remembering in East Central and Northern Europe Interdisciplinary Studies in Medieval Culture, Volume I Edited By Piotr Pranke, Łukasz Różycki, Marcin Lisiecki
1. Henri Pirenne and the Early Medieval Clash of Civilizations
Romain Andre
2. Funerary Symbols and Social Status in Early Medieval Bohemia (8th-10th Centuries)
Nadá Profantová
3. A Hold unto His Majesty. A Sovereign Ritual in 10th–Century Prague Castle
Petr Charvát
4. Manco?: What in the Early Piast State Should Exist but we Can’t Find it (and Why?)
Leszek Paweł Słupecki
5. The Lost Art of the Piast State: A Preliminary Study of the Animal Style in Early Medieval Poland
Leszek Gardeła
6. The Institutional Memory and Institutional Oblivion in Early Medieval Poland (10th-11th Centuries)
Dariusz Andrzej Sikorski
7. Did Information Exchange Create Piast State?: Early Piast Rulers and the Empire (c. 960-1034)
Przemysław Wiszewski
8. Boleslaus The Brave in the Narration Of The Anonymus Cronicae Et Gesta Ducum Sive Principum Polonorum
Franciszek Dąbrowski
9. Preliminaries on Liturgy in Early and High Medieval Poland: Manuscript Evidence, Scholarship Overview, and Postulates for Future Research
Paweł Figurski
10. From East to West: The Foundation of the Hungarian Medieval State and the Shift in Hungarian Warfare Ideologies in the Early Middle Ages
Mihály Boda
11 Early Medieval Hungary: The Main Features of Hungarian National Identity: From Medieval Hungarus to Modern National Identity
Tadeusz Kopyś
12. Beyond The Grave: The Burial Sites of The Árpádian Rulers in Relation to their Foundations of Episcopal Sees
Katalin Szende
13. Money and Power in Medieval Norway. Haraldr Sigurþarson’s Return from Byzantium in Scandinavian Historiography
Maciej Lubik
14. Jarls Of Hlaþir – Condemned Rulers Of Early Medieval Norway
Jakub Morawiec
15. Ways Of Remembering in Medieval Scandinavia: Preliminary Study
Maria Szmyt, Marcelina Lipska, Maciej Mazur
16. Russian Medieval Historiographic Sources About Polovttsian (Kuman) Elites (11th-13th Century)
Dariusz Dąbrowski
Memory, State, and Past Remembering in East Central and Northern Europe Interdisciplinary Studies in Medieval Culture, Volume II Edited By Piotr Pranke, Łukasz Różycki, Marcin Lisiecki Copyright 2026
List of Contributors
Chapter 1 Memory of the Past: John Lydos on the Origins of Rome and Roman Offices in the Period of Kings
Szymon Olszaniec
Chapter 2 Macedonia between Two Worlds: Roman and Barbaricum (7th-9th Centuries)
Mitko B. Panov
Chapter 3 Testimonies and Questions Related to the Elite Formation Process: The Case of Antes (4th–7th Centuries)
Georgios Kardaras
Chapter 4 (In)Visible Members of the Society: Children and Adolescents as Seen in a Tenth-Century Collection of Miracle Stories in Medieval Bulgaria
Yanko M. Hristov
Chapter 5 "Rome" in the Early Piast state
Przemysław Urbańczyk
Chapter 6 Memory of the Battle of Hlyrskógsheiðr and the Medieval Development of the Cult of St. Óláfr
Jakub Morawiec
Chapter 7 Lady of Cassel and Her Polish Mercenaries: The Story of the Creation of a Duchy
Tamás Ölbei
Chapter 8 Charlemagne in Medieval Illuminations: Representations of Religious and Temporal Power at the Crossroads of the West and the East
Sabina Madgearu
Chapter 9 The Battle of Cedynia – Memory vs. History: Around 1050th Anniversary of the Events of 972 in Cidini
Stanisław Rosik
Chapter 10 Imagination of Royal Power and Monarchy in Polish Cultural Texts for Children and Youth
Marcin Lisiecki
Chapter 11 The Nature of the Rulers Power in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 13th and 14th Centuries
Yanina Ryier
Chapter 12 Hungarian Border Defence Strategy Against Early Hussite Invasions
Imre Solt Varga
Chapter 13 Some Considerations on the Emergence of the Moldavian State (13th-14th Centuries)
Alexandru Madgearu
Chapter 14 "It Was Said Near the ‘Tower’ of Mstislav": Accounts of the Rus’ Princes from Deszt–i–Kipczak on the Example of Mstislav Mstislavovich and Danilo Romanovich
Dariusz Dąbrowski
Chapter 15 Two Kings in One Realm: King Béla IV of Hungary and his Younger Brother, Prince Coloman
Gábor Barabás
Chapter 16 The Romanness of the Master Vincentius’s Account of Bolesław the Wrymouth’s Campaign against Nakło (Chronica Polonorum, III.14–17)
Radosław Kotecki
Chapter 17 Magister Vincentius’ Tales of Power: Roman Decor of the Early Piast Monarchy in the Chronica Polonorum
Franciszek Dąbrowski
Chapter 18 Rome, Christianity and the Empire: Did Piasts Need External Legitimization of Their Power: Second Half of the 10th Century to the Beginning of the 12th Century.
Przemysław Wiszewski
