VIII KONGRES MEDIEWISTÓW POLSKICH - GNIEZNO 2025
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Rulers in Chronicles of the Pomeranian Cistercians
The topic of the presentation will be the presentation and analysis of descriptions of territorial superiors mentioned on the pages of the monastic chronicles of Pomeranian Cistercian monasteries. The primary sources will be the medieval and modern chronicles of the Cistercian monasteries in Pelplin and Oliwa. Not all rulers received attention in the chronicles. One of the most important stimuli for such a description was the commitment to memoria about the ruler on prayer grounds. More often than not, it was on prayerful recollections that later narrative structures in chronicles were developed, which will be analysed in this presentation.
Around the fate of the Matilda's codex
The Matilda Codex had been kept in the Düsseldorf City Library since around 1870, and later in the Düsseldorf University Library. Before that, it was in St. Hedwig's Church in Berlin. It came to this library from the Cistercian monastery of Neuzelle after its suppression. In contrast, nothing is known about the circumstances under which our manuscript found its way to this monastery. Perhaps the manuscript was already in the Nienburg monastery in early 1030. Such a theory was formed on the basis of the description of several events from 1028-1030 and polemical emphases in German yearbooks. If the manuscript could have been in the Nienburg monastery, it would be interesting to see if some circumstances would indicate that it could have been transferred from that monastery to the Neuzelle monastery. The paper will therefore attempt to search for possible solutions to the early fate of Matilda's book in the context of the histories of the Nienburg and Neuzelle monasteries, as well as the
VII KONGRES MEDIEWISTÓW POLSKICH - KATOWICE 2022
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Otoczenie społeczne klasztorów na Pomorzu z perspektywy memoratywnej.
