Jakub Kujawiński
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of History, Faculty Member
- Medieval Studies, Medieval Historiography, Medieval Italy, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Medieval vernacular translations (volgarizzamenti), Latin Palaeography, and 106 moreManuscript Studies, Codicology, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Latin Literature, Textual Criticism, History of Scholarship, Ethnicity, Barbarians and Romans in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Early Medieval History, Lombard Italy, Angevin Italy, Normans in Southern Italy, Medieval Miscellanies, Medieval Chronicles, Medieval French Translations, The Kingdom of Naples, History of Historiography, Montecassino Abbey, Marginalia, History of Reading and Writing, Reading practices and marginalia, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Library Science, Medieval manuscripts & early printed books; history of libraries; visual arts & digital media, History of libraries, Antiquarianism, Audience and Reception Studies, Reception of Antiquity, Nicolas-Claude Fabri De Peiresc, Compilations, Medieval Encyclopedia, Cesare Baronio, Caesar Baronius / Cesare Baronio, Arnaldo Momigliano, Lodovico Antonio Muratori, Armando Petrucci, Manoscritti miscellanei, Cronachistica, Scrittura Della Storia, Edizioni Di Cronache, Critica Delle Varianti, Aleksander Gieysztor, Saint Adalbert of Prague, Principato Citra, Salerno, Translation Studies, Vincent of Beauvais, World Chronicle Tradition, Romance philology, Colophon, Zanobi da Strada, François Hartog, Historicity, Prologues, Magistri Vincenti dicti Kadlubek Chronica Polonorum, Mistrz Wincenty zwany Kadłubkiem, Commentary Traditions, Commentaries: History and Theory, Ancient Historiography, Medieval Ecclesiology, Paul the Deacon, Amatus of Montecassino, Filologia dei manoscritti miscellanei, Brunetto Latini, Erchempertus, Chronicon Salernitanum, Roman Historiography, Translation of classical and medieval texts in modern languages, Bollandistes, Walter Pohl, Salernitano, medical school of Salerno, Storia Locale Salernitano, Paolino Veneto, Aragonese library of Naples, Naples National Library Vittorio Emanuele III, Storia della medievistica, Girolamo Arnaldi, History of History, Arsenio Frugoni, Benevento, William of Malmesbury, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 688, Vaticano latino 5001, Nicholas Trevet, Ecdotics, Norman Sicily, Gaufredus Malaterra, Geoffrey Malaterra, Brygida Kürbis, Krzysztof Pomian, Book Publishing, Rolandinus Patavinus, Giovanni Tabacco, Italian-Polish Cultural Relationships, Christine de Pizan, S. Adalberto in Pereo, Jan z Dąbrówki, Chronicon Vulturnense, Faits des Romains, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, Polish Historians, Filologia Delle Strutture, Critica del testo e storia della tradizione, Texts and transmission, Gervase of Canterbury, History of Library and Information Science, and Medieval Publishingedit
Research Interests: Manuscript Studies, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Reception of Antiquity, Seneca the elder, and 15 moreSeneca's Tragedies, University of Oxford, Literary Patronage, Dominican Order, De civitate Dei, Mendicant Orders in Middle Ages, Medieval Commentaries, Medieval Libraries, Papal Avignon, Nicholas Trevet, Medieval Bibliography, Reception of Livy, Pope John XXII, Boethius. De Consolatione philosophiae, and Medieval Publishing
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This article is intended as an introduction to the study of medieval historiography. Discussion is arranged around certain principal features of history writing, which provides opportunities to illustrate various dimensions of the... more
This article is intended as an introduction to the study of medieval historiography. Discussion is arranged around certain principal features of history writing, which provides opportunities to illustrate various dimensions of the evidentiary value of medieval historical texts as well as the questions and methods applied by modern scholarship. It begins with observations about the status of history, not originally considered a discipline of knowledge but a part of grammar and rhetoric (§2). Consequently, history was not a school subject and the historian not a professional. Major topics proper to medieval histories are surveyed with certain issues pertaining to their analysis (§3). World history as presented in tabular chronicles or narrative histories is discussed (§3.1), followed by remarks about church histories (in general and of individual bishoprics and religious houses), and histories of peoples and individual political communities (§3.2). Political partisanship, institutional bias, or edificatory aims influenced many historical accounts. That tendency challenges the reliability of factual records but offers a valuable insight into the ideas and interests of individual authors and their social environments (§4). The methods underlying the informative level of histories, with their weaknesses and seeds of critical approach, are also discussed (§5). The article ends by addressing the question of the audience for histories and the ways by which such texts were published and circulated in manuscript (§6). It allows the perception of a wide range of forms for the transmission of history writing.
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The paper addresses the question of the meaning of the term "bibliotheca publica" as it was used by Gervase of Canterbury in his Chronica (late 12th century). In the prologue, the chronicler says that he is writing for his own community,... more
The paper addresses the question of the meaning of the term "bibliotheca publica" as it was used by Gervase of Canterbury in his Chronica (late 12th century). In the prologue, the chronicler says that he is writing for his own community, that is the brethren of the cathedral priory of Christ Church, Canterbury, and not for a public library. Basing on the uses of "bibliotheca publica" and related phrases by the authors prior to Gervase and potentially known to him, the paper argues that a repository sanctioned by a public (royal) authority was the kind of destination that Gervase did not longed for. If that interpretation holds, Gervase's understanding, which was shaped by Classical, Patristic, and Carolingian texts, would have been different from that of a publicly accessible book collection, which appears as the current denotation of "bibliotheca publica", when the term came in vogue with the rise of Humanism.
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The article discusses selected forms of interventions around and into the historical texts assembled in three miscellanies from the 14th century (BAV, Vat. lat. 5001; Paris, BnF, fr. 688, and Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII.C.9). Three... more
The article discusses selected forms of interventions around and into the historical texts assembled in three miscellanies from the 14th century (BAV, Vat. lat. 5001; Paris, BnF, fr. 688, and Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, VIII.C.9). Three aspects of editorial agency of their designers are of particular interest. First, the selection of pre-existing works according to certain thematic threads. Second, presenting the miscellany to a target audience. The destination other than private may be hypothesized from the paratext or near-contemporary evidence of use. Third, the modifications of the original paratextual apparatus and also of the very content of the received texts. It is argued that by virtue of the variety and scale of those interventions, the three miscellanies verge on historical writings.
Research Interests: Medieval Historiography, Manuscript Studies, Medieval Authorship, Medieval vernacular translations (volgarizzamenti), Paratextuality, and 6 moreMedieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Filologia Delle Strutture, Medieval Miscellanies, Storia della tradizione e critica del testo, Medieval Marginalia, and Medieval Readership
Spicae Salernitanae. Notes on Book Collections in Medieval Salerno Deduced From Selected Manuscripts of Chronicles. This article begins with a concise discussion of previous scholarship on the book collections in Salerno in the Middle... more
Spicae Salernitanae. Notes on Book Collections in Medieval Salerno Deduced From Selected Manuscripts of Chronicles.
This article begins with a concise discussion of previous scholarship on the book collections in Salerno in the Middle Ages and early modern times as witnessed by inventories and extant manuscripts. Three of those books are then discussed in more detail. MS BAV, Vat. lat. 3973 (the oldest copy of the Chronicon of Archbishop Romuald of Salerno) was kept in Salerno until the beginning of the 17th century. Medieval glosses in the margins of the manuscript illustrate the ways it was used by Salernitan readers. A 14th-century miscellany of early medieval Southern Italian writings (including the Chronicon Salernitanum), now MS BAV, Vat. lat. 5001, was probably copied in Salerno from a similar manuscript, which is referred to in the opening clause. One among the copious glosses left by late medieval readers makes reference to a book held in the cathedral archive in Salerno. Early modern copies and excerpts prove that the miscellany was frequently consulted before it left Salerno at the end of the 16th century and, passing through the hands of the Colonna family and Cesare Baronio, entered the Vatican Library. Between 1548 and c. 1554 a notary from Salerno, Johannes Simo Marescalchus, put together a miscellany, which is now Naples, National Library, MS XXII.52. He drew upon three different exemplars, two of which were kept in the cathedral archive (a glossary copied from Vat. lat. 5001, and a calendar), the third belonged to the Franciscan convent in Salerno (a collection of Southern Italian chronicles).
This article begins with a concise discussion of previous scholarship on the book collections in Salerno in the Middle Ages and early modern times as witnessed by inventories and extant manuscripts. Three of those books are then discussed in more detail. MS BAV, Vat. lat. 3973 (the oldest copy of the Chronicon of Archbishop Romuald of Salerno) was kept in Salerno until the beginning of the 17th century. Medieval glosses in the margins of the manuscript illustrate the ways it was used by Salernitan readers. A 14th-century miscellany of early medieval Southern Italian writings (including the Chronicon Salernitanum), now MS BAV, Vat. lat. 5001, was probably copied in Salerno from a similar manuscript, which is referred to in the opening clause. One among the copious glosses left by late medieval readers makes reference to a book held in the cathedral archive in Salerno. Early modern copies and excerpts prove that the miscellany was frequently consulted before it left Salerno at the end of the 16th century and, passing through the hands of the Colonna family and Cesare Baronio, entered the Vatican Library. Between 1548 and c. 1554 a notary from Salerno, Johannes Simo Marescalchus, put together a miscellany, which is now Naples, National Library, MS XXII.52. He drew upon three different exemplars, two of which were kept in the cathedral archive (a glossary copied from Vat. lat. 5001, and a calendar), the third belonged to the Franciscan convent in Salerno (a collection of Southern Italian chronicles).
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History of Historiography: the Legacy of Kazimierz Tymieniecki. The article discusses the place that studies on history of historiography occupied in the scholarship of Polish medievalist Kazimierz Tymieniecki (1887-1968). The discussion... more
History of Historiography: the Legacy of Kazimierz Tymieniecki. The article discusses the place that studies on history of historiography occupied in the scholarship of Polish medievalist Kazimierz Tymieniecki (1887-1968). The discussion is based on published and unpublished scholarly writings of him as well as on teaching materials (the latter categories of evidence being preserved among Tymieniecki's papers held in the Archive of Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań). Although history of historiography was not the main subject of his studies, Tymieniecki significantly contributed to that field in at least three aspects. Firstly, in a handful of articles published in 1920s and 1930s he approached selected chronicles of medieval Poland as witnesses of political ideas nurturing in chroniclers' milieux. He focused on legendary narratives concerned with remote past that were created by chroniclers and applied to them the category of 'learned legend' borrowed from Ernest Champeaux. This led to a re-evaluation of medieval historiography, and especially of its subjective dimension, which earlier had often been neglected or despised in critical historical scholarship. Tymieniecki's approach, still rather uncommon in Polish scholarship in the interwar period, was soon developed, among the others, by Tymieniecki's student, Brygida Kürbis, in the post-war times. Secondly, Tymieniecki manifested a vivid interest in modern historiography as proven by critical surveys of recent studies on the Middle Ages, discussions of the status of historical studies and articles dedicated to individual historians of his times. Those interests, finally, led to attempts at synthesis of the history of Polish historiography that embraced medieval annals and chronicles as well as critical scholarly historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries. Last but not least, in Tymieniecki's historiographical writings and excursus one can notice a close relationship between history of historiography and reflections on historical methodology: the former often provided a historical perspective, in which Tymieniecki discussed some of the current methodological issues, such as those raised by Positivism or Marxism.
Research Interests: Medieval Historiography, History of Scholarship, History of Historiography, Theory and Methodology of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, and 10 morePolish Historians, 20th Century Historiography, Historians, Magistri Vincentii Dicti Kadłubek Chronica Polonorum, Medieval Historiography in 20th century, Historical Legends, Brygida Kürbis, Medieval Political Ideology, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, and Ernest Champeaux
The article discusses the interest that Southern Italian history writers manifested in the Norman conquest, and the ways in which the knowledge about that period was transmitted until the end of the Middle Ages. Taking the three main... more
The article discusses the interest that Southern Italian history writers manifested in the Norman conquest, and the ways in which the knowledge about that period was transmitted until the end of the Middle Ages. Taking the three main narratives of the conquest (Amatus of Monte Cassino, William of Apulia and Geoffrey Malaterra) as a starting point, the discussion covers three timespans: 1) the writings contemporary or nearly contemporary with the conquest (up to the royal coronation of Roger II in 1130); 2) the writings composed in the Kingdom of Sicily under the Norman dynasty and their Stauffer successors (1130–1266); 3) post-Norman writings originating from the Angevin Kingdom of Sicily and from Sicily, which was part of the Crown of Aragon after 1282.
Research Interests: Medieval Historiography, Historical memory, Medieval Sicily, Norman Sicily, Medieval Apulia, and 13 moreNormans in Southern Italy, Campania, Angevin Italy, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Angevine Naples, Abbey of Montecassino, Paolino Veneto, Amatus of Montecassino, Italian Medieval Chronicles, Robert Guiscard, William of Apulia, Geoffrey Malaterra, and Romualdus Salernitanus
Ce recueil de traductions en moyen français de cinq chroniques latines (Italie méridionale, mi-XIVe siècle) est connu surtout pour avoir transmis l’Histoire des Normands d’Aimé du Mont-Cassin (XIe siècle), dont l’original latin est perdu.... more
Ce recueil de traductions en moyen français de cinq chroniques latines (Italie méridionale, mi-XIVe siècle) est connu surtout pour avoir transmis l’Histoire des Normands d’Aimé du Mont-Cassin (XIe siècle), dont l’original latin est perdu. Cet article analyse deux autres traductions du recueil, en démontrant leur valeur pour l’étude de la tradition latine de chaque texte source. La traduction de l’Histoire Sicilienne (XIIe siècle) contribue à la constitution du texte latin. Elle conserve nombre de leçons authentiques modifiées dans le seul manuscrit latin de la version courte de la chronique. La traduction des Chroniques d’Isidore de Séville (VIIe siècle), à son tour, permet de présupposer l'existence d'une branche à part dans la tradition textuelle tardive de cette œuvre. Le texte moyen français semble dériver d’une version contaminée, dont un témoin latin partiel semblerait être transmis dans le manuscrit BAV, Vat. lat. 1361 (XIIe siècle).
Research Interests: Translation Studies, Textual Criticism, Medieval vernacular translations (volgarizzamenti), Medieval Chronicles, Middle French, and 5 moreIsidore of Seville, Normans in Southern Italy, Late Antique and Medieval Historiography, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 688
The article argues that medieval glosses and commentaries on historical writings are of significant interest for the history of historical scholarship. Four types of comments that witness elements of a critical historical approach are... more
The article argues that medieval glosses and commentaries on historical writings are of significant interest for the history of historical scholarship. Four types of comments that witness elements of a critical historical approach are discussed in detail: first, comments on technical terms, which stimulated discussion of different aspects of past societies; second, comments on toponyms, which explored both continuity and change in toponomy, topography or the political affiliation of a given place; third, comments providing supporting or conflicting evidence for certain facts. The fourth group of commentaries presupposes that medieval glossators were able to deduce from the text the evidence of past phenomena that were only implicitly present in the narrative. Some cases of early modern readers of medieval glossed historical manuscripts, discussed at the end of the article, offer an invitation to consider the role that medieval commentaries might have played in the development of modern critical method of historical research.
Research Interests: Medieval Historiography, Antiquarianism, Commentary Traditions, William of Malmesbury, Medieval Chronicles, and 9 moreHistorical methods, Historical Methodology, Reading practices and marginalia, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Early Modern Naples, Glossed Manuscripts, Pierre Bohier, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 688, and Vaticano latino 5001
The article discusses the long lasting and manifold relations that Girolamo Arnaldi (1929-2016), an eminent Italian medievalist, maintained with Poland and Poles. The first two sections are dedicated to scholarly exchange with Polish... more
The article discusses the long lasting and manifold relations that Girolamo Arnaldi (1929-2016), an eminent Italian medievalist, maintained with Poland and Poles. The first two sections are dedicated to scholarly exchange with Polish historians (occasions for meeting, common initiatives, shared research interests, including a new approach towards medieval narrative sources). The last section addresses Arnaldi's support for human rights in communist Poland, in particular under martial law (1981-1983).
Research Interests: Medieval Historiography, History of Historiography, History of scholarly practices, Historians and Political Power, Aleksander Gieysztor, and 9 moreMartial Law in Poland, Polish Historians, Historians, Italian-Polish Cultural Relationships, Storia della medievistica, Girolamo Arnaldi, Italian historians, Brygida Kürbis, and History of international scholarly cooperation
The article is dedicated to Girolamo Arnaldi, an eminent Italian medievalist, who passed away on January 30th, 2016. It consists of three parts: the first provides an academic biography of Arnaldi; the second discusses an international... more
The article is dedicated to Girolamo Arnaldi, an eminent Italian medievalist, who passed away on January 30th, 2016. It consists of three parts: the first provides an academic biography of Arnaldi; the second discusses an international dimension of his scholarship and focuses on his relations with Polish historians; the third presents Arnaldi as a scholar of medieval historiography.
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The mid-twelfth-century anonymous history of the Norman conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily, the so-called Historia Sicula, has been transmitted in six Latin copies (five of which written as late as the sixteenth and seventeenth... more
The mid-twelfth-century anonymous history of the Norman conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily, the so-called Historia Sicula, has been transmitted in six Latin copies (five of which written as late as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) and in two vernacular translations, a Middle French one of the fourteenth century, and an Italian translation of the seventeenth. The article discusses a number of passages in which the Middle French translation appears to be helpful in choosing between apparently adiaphorous variant readings of Latin manuscripts or even provide basis for reconstruction of readings that seem to have been disfigured in all existing witnesses of the Latin text. It is therefore argued that the French translation should be taken into consideration in the still missing critical edition of the Latin Historia Sicula.
Research Interests: Translation Studies, Medieval Historiography, Textual Criticism, Ecdotics, Medieval Italy, and 8 moreNorman Sicily, Medieval vernacular translations (volgarizzamenti), Norman Historiography, Normans in Southern Italy, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Robert Guiscard, Geoffrey Malaterra, and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 688
Taking MS. BAV, Vat. lat. 5001 as a case study, the article provides preliminary considerations on the ways that historical writings were read in Southern Italy during the Late Middle Ages. The early-fouteenth-century manuscript contains... more
Taking MS. BAV, Vat. lat. 5001 as a case study, the article provides preliminary considerations on the ways that historical writings were read in Southern Italy during the Late Middle Ages. The early-fouteenth-century manuscript contains a miscellany of chronicles, charters and texts of other types, all of which were produced in the South between the 8th and the 10th centuries. This miscellany, in particular the chronicles by Erchempertus and that by the Anonymous Salernitanus, were heavily glossed in the 14th century by at least five different readers. The article consists of a short foreword and three chapters. The first part deals with the manuscript itself, with its history and with the manuscript copies of it produced by early-modern Italian scholars. Some of these copies also contain the medieval glosses. They therefore make it possible to recover parts of the glosses that have been lost through the trimming of margins in the Vatican codex. The second section discusses selected glosses by hand D, who was the most assiduous of all the readers and who reveals a particular interest in the city of Salerno. First I examine the glosses that served as a guide to contents (summaries, cross-references), then I consider the glosses concerned with topography of the city, the territory and political order of the region (here the tension between continuity and change is often visible), I round off by discussing the annotations that extract political and moral teaching from accounts of single events. Finally (section three) it is argued that the present case study leads to two conclusions: firstly, that glosses scattered in the margins of historical manuscripts are witnesses of the phenomenon of comment- ing on historical works in the Middle Ages (a fact that continues to be underestimated by the modern scholarship); secondly, that in studies on historical culture of medieval Southern Italy more room should be given to the analysis of individual historical manuscripts and their uses. The article and the entire volume are available free of charge on the website of Reti Medievali.
Research Interests: History, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Historiography, Textual Scholarship, and 30 moreManuscript Studies, History of Scholarship, Early Modern Italy, Antiquarianism, Commentary Traditions, History of libraries, Medieval Chronicles, Marginalia, Salerno, Cultural History of Naples and Campania, Principato Citra, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Campania, Augustinian Order, Longobardi in Italia Meridionale, Angevin Italy, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Caesar Baronius / Cesare Baronio, Langobardia Minor, Medieval Miscellanies, Glossed Manuscripts, Paolino Veneto, Medieval Readers, Erchempertus, Chronicon Salernitanum, Manoscritti miscellanei, Colonna Family, San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro Pavia, Seripando Girolamo, and Vaticano latino 5001
Modern scholarship seems to undervalue medieval commentaries on historical writings. This article intends to bring this phenomenon to scholars' attention by providing a preliminary overview of the forms and subjects of such commentaries.... more
Modern scholarship seems to undervalue medieval commentaries on historical writings. This article intends to bring this phenomenon to scholars' attention by providing a preliminary overview of the forms and subjects of such commentaries. It examines various types of evidence including not only a few commentaries proper (Nicolas Trevet's on Livy and John of Dąbrówka's on Vincent of Cracow), but also different apparatus consisting of more or less systematic interlinear and marginal glosses and commentary-like additions to vernacular translations, mostly of Italian and French origin. It begins by considering various consultation-related signs and annotations, such as cross-references. Then, it studies the text-like features of sets of glosses (ascertained authorship and manuscript tradition) and briefl y discusses some of their patterns of display as found in single manuscripts. Turning to the contents of commentaries, the article first touches upon introductions to the authors (accessus) and upon comments on the historians' lives and the history of their writings. The article then discusses comments on different levels of meaning: first, explanations of grammatical forms, figures of speech, semantics of single words and entire fragments, then, different ways of exploring, or imposing, the inner senses of historical narration, mostly of an ethical nature. Finally, the text argues that among the different ways of expounding an historical account, comments on subject matter are especially worthy of attention from the perspective of the history of historical scholarship. Explanations of technical terms and place names often led to erudite digressions and revealed tensions between continuity and change. Expounding historical contents of entire fragments might include some elements of source criticism or tend towards a new historical synthesis. Medieval commentators were also able to read historical information beyond the factual account, often introducing subjects proper to antiquarian writings.
Research Interests: History, Translation Studies, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, and 28 moreMedieval Historiography, Commentaries: History and Theory, Manuscript Studies, History of Scholarship, History of Classical Scholarship, Medieval philology, Classical Reception Studies, Antiquarianism, History of History, Medieval vernacular translations (volgarizzamenti), Commentary Traditions, Medieval Chronicles, Marginalia, Latin Glossaries, Scholia, History of Scholarship, Arnaldo Momigliano, Medieval and Early Modern historiography, Medieval Scholasticism, Late Antique and Medieval Historiography, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Liber Pontificalis, Glossed Manuscripts, Paolino Veneto, Medieval Readers, Nicholas Trevet, Chronicon Salernitanum, Pierre Bohier, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 688, and Vaticano latino 5001
Commenting on historiography in medieval Europe. An attempt at the characteristics of the phenomenon on the basis of selected sources from the Romance countries (11th–15th centuries)
Research Interests: History, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Historiography, and 14 moreCommentaries: History and Theory, Manuscript Studies, Classical Reception Studies, Antiquarianism, History of History, Medieval vernacular translations (volgarizzamenti), Reception of Antiquity, Commentary Traditions, Historical methods, Marginalia, Arnaldo Momigliano, Mistrz Wincenty zwany Kadłubkiem, Glossed Manuscripts, and Jan z Dąbrówki
The paper introduces the project Mare Historiarum whose purpose is to reconstruct the corpus of historical writings composed or just present in within Latin-speaking societies of Southern Italy since sixth until mid-fifteenth century. The... more
The paper introduces the project Mare Historiarum whose purpose is to reconstruct the corpus of historical writings composed or just present in within Latin-speaking societies of Southern Italy since sixth until mid-fifteenth century. The project intends to overstep the previous scholarship, which focused on Southern Italian chronicles as either primary sources for historical events or literary compositions, by research into the circulation and readership of both local and foreign, medieval and Classical historical writings as attested by different rearrangements and single manuscript copies, which were produced in or imported to the South during the Middle Ages. Study of this latter group is illustrated by considerations on the miscellany of Classical historians and antiquarians, handed down in the MS BAV, Vat. lat. 1860, of Neapolitan origins and datable to the mid-fourteenth century. Both its material features and textual models are discussed.
Research Interests: Classics, Medieval Historiography, Textual Criticism, Manuscript Studies, Codicology, and 19 moreFestus, Classical Reception Studies, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, History of History, Suetonius, The Kingdom of Naples, Florus, John of Wales, Solinus, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Montecassino Abbey, Eutropius, Vegetius, Angevin Italy, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Medieval Miscellanies, Filologia dei manoscritti miscellanei, Manoscritti miscellanei, and Zanobi da Strada
Research Interests: Translation Studies, Medieval Historiography, Medieval Latin Literature, Manuscript Studies, Medieval vernacular translations (volgarizzamenti), and 6 moreMedieval French Translations, Isidore of Seville, Paul the Deacon, Critica Delle Varianti, Amatus of Montecassino, and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 688
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Looking for the context of the vernacular translation of Amatus of Montecassino’s Historia Normannorum (the French MS 688 of the National Library of France). The considered manuscript (Southern Italy, mid-14th cent.) has been known mainly... more
Looking for the context of the vernacular translation of Amatus of Montecassino’s Historia Normannorum (the French MS 688 of the National Library of France). The considered manuscript (Southern Italy, mid-14th cent.) has been known mainly for its being a unique testimony of the Historia Normannorum, an important historiographical narration on the Norman conquest of Southern Italy, written at the end of the 11th century. The author emphasizes that the manuscript and miscellany themselves (containing translations of Isidore of Seville’s Chronica, Paul the Deacon’s Historia romana and Historia Langobardorum, and of the so-called Historia Sicula) are worth studying and that only such an integral approach may enable the evaluation of French translation as the testimony of a lost Latin original. The following questions are discussed: paleographical and codicological features of the manuscript, its illuminations, the time and milieu of production of both the manuscript and the translations, the models for the miscellany, the relationship between single translations and the manuscript tradition of respective Latin compositions and the place occupied by the considered manuscript in the transmission of the miscellany
Research Interests: Translation Studies, Medieval Historiography, Textual Criticism, Manuscript Studies, Codicology, and 18 moreWorld Chronicle Tradition, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Christian Iconography, Medieval French Translations, History of libraries, Medieval Chronicles, The Kingdom of Naples, Isidore of Seville, Paul the Deacon, Normans in Southern Italy, Nicolas-Claude Fabri De Peiresc, Angevin Italy, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Bibliothèque Nationale De France, Paris, Medieval Miscellanies, Amatus of Montecassino, and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 688
Research Interests: Medieval Church History, Medieval Italy, Monasticism, Ravenna, Medieval Rome, and 12 moreEarly Medieval Monasticism, Medieval pilgrimage, Latin Medieval Hagiography, Ottonian Empire, Eremitismo, Camaldolese, Medieval communication routes, Bruno of Querfurt, Pięciu Braci Męczenników, Benedykt z Benewentu, Saint Romuald, and S. Adalberto in Pereo
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The article discusses various approaches to the issue of ethnicity in the social sciences and in the medieval studies. It states that the perspective of the social actors should be privileged in research on collective identities of... more
The article discusses various approaches to the issue of ethnicity in the social sciences and in the medieval studies. It states that the perspective of the social actors should be privileged in research on collective identities of societies of the past. Thus, identity of the barbarian groups settled within the Roman ‘limes’ can only be investigated for the time in which those societies started to express and construct it by means of texts.
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Research Interests: Medieval Historiography, Stereotypes and Prejudice, Byzantine Studies, Carolingian Studies, Muslim-Christian Relation, and 15 moreRepresentation of Others, Ethnicity, Foreigners (Medieval Studies), Collective Identity, Medieval Chronicles, Salerno, Carolingian Italy, Lombards, Cultural History of Naples and Campania, Ethnicity and Identity in the Medieval Period, Montecassino Abbey, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, The principality of Benevento, Erchempertus, and Chronicon Salernitanum
Artykuł omawia wybrane prace austriackiego mediewisty Waltera Pohla jako reprezentatywne dla zmian, jakie zaszły w 2. połowie XX w. na gruncie badań nad stosunkami etnicznymi we wczesnym średniowieczu. Z jednej strony wskazuje na... more
Artykuł omawia wybrane prace austriackiego mediewisty Waltera Pohla jako reprezentatywne dla zmian, jakie zaszły w 2. połowie XX w. na gruncie badań nad stosunkami etnicznymi we wczesnym średniowieczu. Z jednej strony wskazuje na inspiracje płynące ze współczesnych studiów nad etnicznością nad gruncie socjologii i antropologii, z drugiej przedstawia niektóre konsekwencje wyprowadzone dla metodyki badań nad tożsamościami dawnych społeczeństw. Artykuł ukazał się po raz pierwszy w języku polskim:Socjologiczne i antropologiczne inspiracje w badaniach nad tożsamościami społeczności wczesnośredniowiecznej Europy (wokół prac Waltera Pohla), "Kwartalnik Historyczny" 111 (2004), 4, s. 109-120, wersja angielska została nieznacznie zmieniona.
This article discusses a selection of works by Walter Pohl that are considered representative of new approaches to the study of early medieval ethnicity. It focuses first on the significance of sociological and anthropological approaches and then considers their conseguences for historical research on past identities. The article was first published in Polish as "Socjologiczne i antropologiczne inspiracje w badaniach nad tożsamościami społeczności wczesnośredniowiecznej Europy (wokół prac Waltera Pohla)", in "Kwartalnik Historyczny" 111 (2004), 4, pp. 109-120, and then revised for the present English translation.
This article discusses a selection of works by Walter Pohl that are considered representative of new approaches to the study of early medieval ethnicity. It focuses first on the significance of sociological and anthropological approaches and then considers their conseguences for historical research on past identities. The article was first published in Polish as "Socjologiczne i antropologiczne inspiracje w badaniach nad tożsamościami społeczności wczesnośredniowiecznej Europy (wokół prac Waltera Pohla)", in "Kwartalnik Historyczny" 111 (2004), 4, pp. 109-120, and then revised for the present English translation.
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See the same article in English: Sociological and Anthropological Inspirations to Research into the Identity of Early Medieval European Societies. Around the works of Walter Pohl, "Acta Poloniae Historica" 94, 2006
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The article discusses Liutprand’s ideas on royal authority and duties as expressed in his laws and charters, comparing them to the ideology of his predecessors and successors
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Research Interests: Hagiography, Catholic Missionary History, Christian Missions, Cultural Diversity, Representation of Others, and 13 moreMedieval Christianity, Barbarians, Saint Adalbert of Prague, Pomerania and Pomeranians, Barbaricum, Paganism and Christianism, Christianisation, Christianisation of Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages, Heathenism, Bruno of Querfurt, Helmold, St. Otto of Bamberg, and Medieval Hagiography
Research Interests: Urban History, Historical Migrations, Social History, Urban Sociology, 18th Century, and 13 moreConfessionalization, History of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Citizenship, Great Northern War, Wielkopolska, Poznań, Early modern Poland, religious dissent in Early modern Europe, Religious Dissent, Early Modern City, Album Civium, Admission to Burgership, and Registers of new townsmen
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The most recent editions of documentary sources from early medieval Southern Italy
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Title of the original: Funzioni delle immagini nel libro miniato. Didattica, divulgazione e devozione attraverso i cicli biblici nel Tardo Medioevo
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The fascicule presents the French text and the Polish translation of the lecture held by Glauco Maria Cantarella in the Institute of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, on May 6th 2010. The Author discusses Roman ecclesiology in... more
The fascicule presents the French text and the Polish translation of the lecture held by Glauco Maria Cantarella in the Institute of History, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, on May 6th 2010. The Author discusses Roman ecclesiology in the moment that stands between two great and much studied periods in the history of the Roman See, namely the Carolingian epoch and the so-called Gregorian reform of the late eleventh century.
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[Edited Italian Translation] Aleksander Gieysztor, Il problema della riforma carolingia della scrittura [Problem karolińskiej reformy pisma], traduzione italiana di Elżbieta Danuta Krysa, a cura di Jakub Kujawiński, "Nuovi Annali della Scuola Speciale per Archivisti e Bibliotecari" 28 (2014), 5-35more
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The poster was presented and discussed during the Department of Languages and ReClas Research Markets, University of Jyväskylä, on September 16th and October 31st 2016.
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This presentation accompanied a lecture delivered at Federico II University in Naples on the 9th of October 2019, within the course "Lingue e culture della Napoli angioina", held by Prof. Laura Minervini.
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KIRJOJA! KIRJOJA! BOOKS! BOOKS! A Programme presented and organized by the Academy of Finland Project Lamemoli no. 307635 (2017-2022). Come and discover book history ! See manuscripts and early printed books explained by... more
KIRJOJA! KIRJOJA! BOOKS! BOOKS!
A Programme presented and organized by the Academy of Finland Project Lamemoli no. 307635 (2017-2022).
Come and discover book history !
See manuscripts and early printed books explained by Jyväskylä book historians!
24 September 2021
3.00-5.00 p.m. CEST (4.00-6.00 p.m. EEST) on Zoom registration by 20 September 2021
by mail to omerisalo(at)gmail.com
A Programme presented and organized by the Academy of Finland Project Lamemoli no. 307635 (2017-2022).
Come and discover book history !
See manuscripts and early printed books explained by Jyväskylä book historians!
24 September 2021
3.00-5.00 p.m. CEST (4.00-6.00 p.m. EEST) on Zoom registration by 20 September 2021
by mail to omerisalo(at)gmail.com
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This collection of essays in honour of Jerzy Strzelczyk consists of fifty-two individual papers on a wide range of topics and the first complete bibliography of the Honorand.
Research Interests: Medieval Studies, Medieval Historiography, Medievalism, Medieval Women, Medieval Archaeology, and 10 moreHistory of Scholarship, Medieval Christianity, Medieval Germany, Central and East European Studies, Medieval Geography, Piast Dynasty, Medieval Poland, Latin Medieval Hagiography, Polish Historians, and Jerzy Strzelczyk
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Research Interests: Medieval Historiography, Stereotypes and Prejudice, Cult of Saints, Early Medieval History, Diplomatics (Medieval), and 29 moreByzantine Studies, Collective Memory, Carolingian Studies, Muslim-Christian Relation, Representation of Others, Ethnicity, Foreigners (Medieval Studies), Collective Identity, Medieval Chronicles, Collective Identities, Relational Sociology, History of Southern Italy, Benevento, Salerno, Carolingian Italy, Lombards, Cultural History of Naples and Campania, Ethnicity and Identity in the Medieval Period, Early medieval hagiography and historiography, Latin Medieval Hagiography, Montecassino Abbey, Amalfi, Cava de' Tirreni (SA), Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Lombard Law, Erchempertus, Arechi II, Chronicon Salernitanum, and Collective Identity Building
The poster was displayed and discussed during the "Limits of Knowledge. International Scientific Conference Humboldt-Kolleg", Cracow, 22-25 June 2017
Research Interests: Medieval History, Medieval Historiography, Commentaries: History and Theory, Audience and Reception Studies, Manuscript Studies, and 6 moreHistory of Scholarship, Late medieval manuscript anthologies and their readers, Marginalia, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Medieval Readers, and Historical Scholarship
The case of Trevet’s commentary on the Psalter illustrates both the potential and the limitations of the study of authorial publishing in a manuscript culture. Trevet’s own contributions to the circulation of his commentary are not... more
The case of Trevet’s commentary on the Psalter illustrates both the potential and the limitations of the study of authorial publishing in a manuscript culture. Trevet’s own contributions to the circulation of his commentary are not available to us other than circumstantially. His dedicatory letter casts light on the process of composition, the friar’s commission from his superior, and the work’s subsequent presentation to that same party. The earliest manuscripts, their evidence bolstered by the indirect manuscript tradition and contemporary bibliographies, are witness to what was apparently a sequence of publishing events. Publication of the commentary consisted of repeated issues, allowing for authorial revision at different stages.
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Paper presented at Dominican Culture, Dominican Theology:
The Order of Preachers and Its Spheres of Action (1215-ca. 1600)
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, 29 June – 2 July 2021
The Order of Preachers and Its Spheres of Action (1215-ca. 1600)
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, 29 June – 2 July 2021
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The paper was presented at the colloquium PRATICHE DI COMMENTO FRA MEDIOEVO E UMANESIMO, TRADIZIONE E INNOVAZIONI, Munich, 8-9 April 2024.