Between East and West: Studies on the History of Memory, Commemoration and Reception of Medieval Culture

Between East and West: Studies on the History of Memory, Commemoration and Reception of Medieval Culture
ISBN-10
3737015988
ISBN-13
9783737015981
Series
Between East and West
Category
History
Pages
263
Language
English
Published
2023-08-14
Publisher
V&R unipress
Author
Piotr Pranke

Description

The memory of the living and the dead was part of the functioning of monastic and secular communities, dynasties and aristocratic families. The relationship of debitores and fundatores is key to understanding the “mentality” of the era of the formation of Imperium Christianum. The donations made “pro remedio animae nostre et genitoris nostris” indicate the memorial function of transferring the prayer duties of the power elites (or whole groups and communities) to the clergy and illustrate the belief of medieval people in the importance of intercessory prayer. This volume is a memoir of the Piasts and Boleslaw the Brave on the 1000th anniversary of his coronation. It symbolically closes the study of the millennium of the baptism of Poland (966–1966) and opens the study of the early Middle Ages in Poland and Central Europe.

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