In the initial part of the Annals of Traska, its author manifested significant historiographical ambitions. Having at his disposal a stock of sources which, together with the Annals of Traska, were transcribed into the Zamoyski codex, the author created three characteristics of Bolesław Chrobry. The first is placed under the year of his birth (967) and concerns the conquests of Chrobry and the hosting of St Adalbert in Gniezno. The second entry, under 1002, concerns the royal coronation of Bolesław by Emperor Otto III and the Kyiv expedition. It is a counterpoint to an earlier entry (1001), reporting on Mieszko I's unsuccessful efforts to obtain a royal crown in the Holy See. The third entry, placed under the year 1081, reporting on the death of King Bolesław Chrobry and summarising his conquests, poses the greatest interpretative challenge. Did the author of the Annals of Traska replace Bolesław II, with Bolesław I Chrobry deliberately or by mistake?
2025-09-19 15:30-16:00, Instytut Kultury Europejskiej UAM, 1.27
