dr Tomasz Siewierski

Section 12.: Return to Poland of Mieszko and Bolesław the Brave - Polish historical sciences towards the areas of western and northern Poland annexed in 1945

The paper will present an outline of the intellectual biography of Andrzej Feliks Grabski (1934–2000), a historian from Łódź associated not only with the local university but also with the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Grabski is primarily remembered by contemporary scholars as the author of monumental works in the field of historiography, but his contributions to medieval studies also deserve recognition. In this area, he wrote treatises on military history and devoted considerable attention to biographical studies. He authored three popular biographies of medieval Polish rulers: Bolesław Chrobry (Bolesław the Brave), Mieszko I, and Bolesław Krzywousty (Bolesław the Wrymouth). In the context of the conference theme, I would like to focus particularly to the first of these biographies .