Title:

Shaping the Communal Past, Tinkering with the Communal Past. A Few Notes in the Margin of Piotr Okniński’s Book

Subtitle:

Acta Poloniae Historica T. 131 (2025) ; Review Article

Creator:

Adamska, Anna (1964– )

Institutional creator:

Polska Akademia Nauk. Komitet Nauk Historycznych ; Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla ; Fundacja Instytutu Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Contributor:

Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Fundacja Instytutu Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk ; Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2025

Description:

Concerns book : Wehikuły pamięci : przeszłość i władza w dawnym Krakowie : (do końca XVIII w.) / Piotr Okniński. - Warszawa : Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2023. ; p. 203-213

Subject and Keywords:

pre-modern Kraków ; urban elites ; urban chanceries ; collective memory ; communal past

Abstract:

The article discusses a thought-provoking – though not entirely unproblematic – attempt to investigate attitudes towards the past in the urban context of premodern Poland. The work in question, Piotr Okniński’s monograph on the creation of official historical narratives of the city of Kraków, is examined against the broader backdrop of both Polish and international scholarly discourse. This discourse concerns the mechanisms of collective memory and its politically motivated suppression, the instruments of remembrance, and the active role of urban elites in shaping an authorised version of the communal past.

References:

Braunstein Philippe, ‘Pour une histoire des élites urbaines: vocabulaire, réalités et représentations’, in Les élites urbaines au Moyen Âge (Paris, 1997), 29–38.
Geary Patrick, ‘Remembering and Forgetting Phantoms of Remembrance: Social Memory and Oblivion in Medieval History after Twenty Years’, in Sebastian Scholz, Gerhard Schwedler (eds), Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory (Berlin, 2022).
Haemers Jelle and Jan Dumolyn, Communes and Conflict: Urban Rebellion in Late Medieval Flanders (Leiden, 2023).
Moeglin Jean-Marie, ‘Les élites urbaines et l’histoire de leur ville’, in Les élites urbaines au Moyen Âge (Paris, 1997), 351–83.
Mostert Marco and Anna Adamska (eds), Writing and the Administration of Medieval Towns. Medieval Urban Literacy I (Turnhout, 2014).
Niedźwiedź Jakub, Literacy in Medieval and Early Modern Vilnius. Forms of Writing and Rhetorical Spaces in the City (Turnhout, 2023), 493– 520.
Okniński Piotr, ‘Oficjalna przeszłość miasta’, in Halina Manikowska (ed.), Przeszłość w kulturze średniowiecznej Polski, ii (Warszawa, 2018), 177–201.
Schwedler Gerhard (ed.), A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages (London – New York, 2021).
Starzyński Marcin, Krakowska rada miejska w średniowieczu (Kraków, 2010).

Relation:

Acta Poloniae Historica

Volume:

131

Start page:

203

End page:

213

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : scientific review

Format:

application/octet-stream

Resource Identifier:

2450-8462 ; 0001-6829 ; 10.12775/APH.2025.131.9

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. A.295/131 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

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Access:

Open