The paper will be devoted to the historiosophy of Sven Aggesen, a Danish chronicler writing in the last twenty years of the 12th c. As it turns out, an element particularly important for the chronicler's conceptualization of the past, and at the same time for presenting his views on the political changes taking place in contemporary Denmark, are women. And although he writes a ‘male history’ (the history of kings), the role of the keystones of the entire story, and thus of Denmark's past with its present, is played by women - mainly queens, but in one case also anonymous Danes. During my presentation, I will outline the specificity of Sven's lecture and the female characters themselves on the pages of his work, presenting the role they play in his presentation of the history of their homeland. I will also consider the reasons for such a special role of women in his story, comparing them with contemporary chroniclers from Scandinavia, England and Central Europe.

The paper will serve to present a fragment of my book in the making about Polish cultural memory of King Bolesław the Brave. I will outline the problem of the reception of the figure by the Polish national movement in the interwar period and during WWII. First, I will outline the celebrations of the 900th anniversary of the royal coronation in 1925, showing that they were organized by the National Democrats and that they were a trigger for the development of the popularity of the first Polish king in this environment. Here, I will also mention the thread of the Congress of Historians in Poznań in 1925. Then, I will talk about the genesis of the so-called "Mieczyk Chrobry", the symbol of nationalist organizations. I will also mention other elements of the aesthetic staffage of Polish nationalism in the 1930s, related to Bolesław the Brave. Next, I will outline the political concepts of nationalists, in which they inscribed the myth of Bolesław, showing their historical development.