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    The Periphery of Europe and the Idea of Crusade: Adaptation and Evolution of Crusader Ideology in Poland under the Piast Dynasty (1100–47) Darius von Güttner-Sporzyński
    von Guttner, D ; Srodecki, P ; Kersken, N (Brepols, 2021)
    The Western Slavic population inhabiting lands united under Piast rule which eventually were to develop into Poland was converted to Christianity in the late tenth century. From the early days of the adoption of the Christian religion and its language, customs and institutions, established Poland as a frontier of Christendom. For those looking from the West towards the East, the realm of the Poles was a more or less fluid extension of Latin Christianity; a periphery where the defence and expansion of Christendom was taking place. In fact, the struggle to contain the incursions of pagans and (after the great schism of 1054) schismatic Eastern Christians would be constant features of Polish medieval history. The nascent Christian dynasty of the Piasts led the conversion of the Western Slavic tribes around the Warta river, and proactively pursued policies which adopted the norms of Christendom, including, by forcibly keeping at bay their pagan neighbours to the north and north east.
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    The conquest and Christianization of Pomerania according to the anonymous author of the Gesta principum Polonorum
    von Guttner, D ; Rosik, S (Uniwersytet Wrocławski, 2020)
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    Bishop Vincentius of Cracow and his Chronica Polonorum
    von Güttner-Sporzyński, D ; von guttner sporzynski, D (Brepols Publishers, 2017-01)
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    Introduction to Writing History in Medieval Poland: Bishop Vincentius of Cracow and the 'Chronica Polonorum
    von Guttner Sporzynski, D ; Von Guttner Sporzynski, D (Brepols, 2017)
    Poland’s first native chronicler and a proud contributor to the twelfth century renaissance placed his people’s history on a continuum with the classical world. This work brings to light the importance of Poland in the making of Europe. This volume presents an in-depth analysis of the Chronica Polonorum, one of the greatest works of the twelfth-century renaissance which profoundly influenced history writing in Central Europe. The Chronica Polonorum was written by Poland’s first native historian Vincentius of Cracow. Educated in Paris and Bologna, he was the first canonically elected bishop of Cracow and a participant of the Fourth Lateran Council. The eyewitness accounts given in the Chronica Polonorum offer insights into the development of twelfth-century Poland, the ambitions of its dynasty, the country’s integration into Christendom, and the interaction between the Polish and Western elites. Vincentius’s work is considered a masterpiece in literary erudition grounded in classical training. The historical evidence it presents illuminates the socio-cultural interaction between Poland and the West during the period. Vincentius’s chronicle demonstrates the strong, enduring influence of the history, law, and traditions of ancient Rome in twelfth-century Europe. This book deals with several subjects which have increasingly gained in prominence in English-language scholarship in recent years, such as the development of political culture, the diffusion and growth of ideas, the Christianization of the peripheral regions of Europe, and the interaction between cultural, political, and economic changes. In analysing the work of Vincentius and the Polish historiography of the Chronica Polonorum, this volume provides important insights into the development of the so-called peripheral regions of twelfth-century Europe and Poland’s engagement in the twelfth-century renaissance.
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    Holy War and Proto-Crusading. Twelfth-Century Justifications for the Campaigns against the Pomeranians and Prussians
    von Güttner-Sporzyński, D ; Nielsen, TK ; Fonnesberg Schmidt, I (Brepols Publishers, 2016-01)
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    The Second Crusade
    VON GUTTNER SPORZYNSKI, D ; Roche, JT ; Jensen, JM (Brepols Publishers, 2015-01)
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    Od misji do wojny świętej i krucjaty. Chrzest pogan w kręgu środkowoeuropejskim a ideologia krucjatowa.
    VON GUTTNER SPORZYNSKI, D ; Dobosz, J ; Strzelczyk, J ; Matla, M (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu in Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 2016)
    The first monograph to discuss the dissemination of Christianity throughout the European continent and in its immediate vicinity in the first millennium AD appeared in print in 2014 (The Christianisation of Europe. The Church at the Turn of the Second Millennium, Józef Dobosz, Jerzy Strzelczyk (eds), Poznan 2014). This volume seeks to explore the expansion of Christianity in 'the Younger Europe': Central and Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. The book comprises several contributions from leading medievalists, who trace the processes of Christianisation in particular political structures of 'the Younger Europe' (the Scandinavian countries, Saxony, Bohemia, Hungary, Rus', the areas inhabited by the Baits and the steppe peoples of Central and Eastern Europe) and examine issues relating to the missionary doctrine of the then Church, the idea of holy war, the approaches of societies embracing the new religion, the consequences of Christianisation and its perception in collective memory.
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    NORTHERN CRUSADES: BETWEEN HOLY WAR AND MISSION
    von Guettner-Sporzynski, D ; Boas, AJ (ROUTLEDGE, 2016)
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    Historical writing
    VON GUTTNER SPORZYNSKI, D ; Cassidy-Welch, M (Routledge, 2017)