God’s Playground. A History of Poland, Vol. 1. The Origins to 1795
50 POLSKA the political link of the Hohenzollern dukes in Prussia with their relations in Brandenburg was confined to the promis ...
THE POLISH LAND 51 have second thoughts. The once tempting idea that geographical conditions in the Polish lands nurtured Democr ...
3 PIAST The Polanian Dynasty (to 1370) Reputedly, Piast was a peasant. According to the Anonymous Gaul writing some 250 years la ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 53 office', suggests that like the Carolingians in France or the Stuarts in Scotland, Piast turned the offi ...
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THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 55 ...
56 PIAST associates. Otto III, whose mother Theophano was a Byzantine princess, was not bounded by the narrow vision of his Germ ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 57 fourteenth century. Although there is every reason to suppose that the ruling elite spoke that version o ...
Map 4. The Realm of the Early Piasts, (10th to nth Centuries) ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 59 have always given exclusive attention to the Roman obedience and to the Latin rite. Yet, since the Polan ...
60 PIAST The status of the monarchy was never clearly defined. Although for practical purposes the Piasts were undoubtedly maste ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 61 Kingdom, the Corona regni Poloniae, and the royal title of Rex Poloniae (King of Poland) begin their per ...
Map 5. The Period of Fragmentation, (c. 1250) ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 63 prince's deputy in all matters of war and peace. The Polish title stresses his role as 'warleader', the ...
64 PIAST who were able to accumulate land and revenues on a similarly extensive scale. As from the early thirteenth century, the ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 65 to 4 days per year. A detailed agreement signed in 1227 by Henry the Bearded with the Bishop of Wroclaw ...
66 PIAST between Poland and the west. Best known of them, however, was Witello or Vitellon (1230-80), a Silesian philosopher act ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 67 introduced on the monetary scale: 48 grosze (grossi) = 24 skojca (sesterce) = 4 wiardunki (farthings) = ...
68 PIAST ruszenie, the levee-en-masse or feudal host, emerged in the form which was to last for almost five hundred years. Regim ...
THE POLANIAN DYNASTY 69 vassals, especially those of the marcher lords of Brandenburg. In 1249, the Brandenburgers seized the te ...
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