Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Avalon ; Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Kraków ; Warszawa

Description:

Wyd. I. ; 203 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 25 cm ; Bibliography (pages 189-204). Indexes. ; Summary in English.

Abstract:

The Galician–Volhynian Chronicle treated as a collection of history has not received a separate study hitherto. By “collection of history” I mean a collection of materials composed at various times for various information and ideological purposes holding at the time of their creation, assembled in a single manuscript and thus giving rise to a new historiographical entity. This measure presented existing materials in a new interpretation entailing the declaration of a political programme, whereby the author of the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle endowed his work and the history of the dynasty he had written about with an entirely new identity, giving both his narrative and the image of the House of Romanovich a specifically individualised character. The new portrayal invested the descendants of Roman Mstislavovich with a new literary mantle, in fact a calque of the concept of monarchy prevalent in Kievan Rus’ and instilled chiefly by Metropolitan Hilarion. In this sense the Russian Primary Chronicle and the Kiev Chronicle exerted a real influence on the chronicler of the Romanovich dynasty. 1205/1206 marks an important caesura for Rus’ – the year when the writing of chronicles began to be practised in a variety of places, focusing on the history of the particular region. In the 13th century collections of history served as a surrogate for a non-existent, updated, comprehensive compilation of the history of Rus’. Their use endowed historical writing with a new quality which was deeply rooted in the earlier historiographic collections.

Detailed Resource Type:

Book

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:234576 ; 978-83-65880-48-2 ; 978-83-7730-390-0

Source:

IH PAN, call no. II.14593 ; IH PAN, call no. II.14592 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 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

Access:

Open