By Andrzej Pleszczynski
In early Medieval Western Europe intellectuals have been used to point the exterior place of Slavic nations, as if open air civilization, with the time period the North. the matter didn't simply predicament nomenclature. The stereotype linked to the North pointed on the visible chilly climate, but in addition the primeval nature of the land and folks. This learn indicates the unique photograph of Poland created through German authors within the earliest interval of life of the Piast nation (963-1034). a major objective of this paintings used to be additionally to spot the broader context of written reviews. one other objective was once to collect info illustrating activities taken by way of the Polish rulers aimed toward growing a picture of themselves as civilized males and actual Christians.
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51; Engels, “Der Reisebericht des Ibrāhīm”, p. 415. 18 chapter one on the river Elbe where the traveller formed his opinions about the eastern neighbours of Saxony, including the state of Mieszko I. 43 The problem of the analysis of the text which documents the expedition of the envoy of the caliph of Cordoba to Central Europe of c. 965 is complicated by the fact that we do not possess its original version,44 but only a few later and fragmentary copies of the account. The oldest works which quoted the traveller’s words date to as late as the 11th century.
Strzelczyk, Mieszko Pierwszy, p. 49. 38 chapter one At this stage we discover a certain link between the words of the ‘Polish’ part of Ibrahim of Yaqub’s relation and Widukind’s observation that Mieszko was the ruler of ‘barbarians farther located’.
523, (7,37); The ‘Chronicon’, p. 334. 115 Jerzy Strzelczyk, Otton III (Wrocław, 2000), p. 105 (De ratione uti): Dant vires ferax frugam Italia, ferax militum Gallia et Germania, nec Scythae nobis desunt fortissima regna; see: Karol Maleczyński, “Sarmatae i Scytae w pismach Gerberta z Aurillac”, in EuropaSłowiańszczyzna-Polska. Studia ku uczczeniu Profesora Kazimierza Tymienieckiego, ed. Jerzy Bardach (Poznań, 1970), pp. 59–69; Mathilde Uhlirz, “Die, ‘Scythae’ in den Briefen Gerberts von Aurillac”, MIÖG 59 (1951), 411–415.