By Zbigniew Dalewski

Referring, in terms of instance, to the chronicler's tale a few dynastic clash in medieval Poland, this booklet bargains an perception into the modes of utilizing ritual as an efficient instrument of political motion within the center Ages--both within the perform of political entreprising, and at the point of narrative information regarding that practice--and then displays in regards to the nature of the connection among the truth of the written account and the truth of the sensible actions defined in it. It demonstrates the ways that the truth of the narrative account and the truth of practics--ritual-in-text and ritual-in-performance--overlaid and interlaced each other, and exercised a mutual impression, thereby together making a framework during which, within the past and excessive heart a long time, political task came about.

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129: “town of Kruszvica where he was taken in by the townsmen”. 4, pp. 4, pp. 129–131: “and that the people of Kruszwica had defied him by taking Zbigniew in”. 22 ch apter o ne The exp ression recipere tha t Gall us us ed t o des cribe the successi ve stages of Zbigniew’s peregrinations from Saxony, through Bohemia and Wrocław, to Kruszwica, can, of course, be understood in its basic sense, as meaning to take somebody in, to receive as a guest. In Gallus’ chronicle it is often used in this form.

Adolf H ofmeister, M GH SS rG, 47 (Hanover-Leipzig, 1912), pp. 61–63. See: Thomas Ertl, “Otto von St. Blasien rekonstruiert den tri umphalen Einzug H einrichs VI. in P alermo (1194), ” Römische Historische Mitteilungen 43 (2001), 227–256; Thomas Ertl, “Das Regierungsantritt Heinrichs VI. im Königreich Sizilien (1194). ,” Zeitschrift der S avigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte Ger. Abt. 112 (1995), 202–244. 43 They play a ra ther important role in our chronicler’s text and we shall refer to them a gain and again.

28, pp. 28, pp. 99–101. 45 The significance of this issue in Gallus’ presentation becomes even more apparent, if in the short poem opening chapter 28. (“Cum audisset Wladislauus Bolezlauum advenire,/ Partim gaudet ex amico, partim restat locus ire,/ Partim ex recepto quidem fratre gaudet et a mico/ Sed de f ratre Wiadislauo facto dolet inimico”) we accept the reading deferre (appearing in the ma nuscripts) i nstead of t he e mendation de f ratre; s ee: Galli Anonymi Cronicae, p. 53, n ote x. With r eading de f ratre (accep ted b y M aleczyński in 30 ch apter o ne A s hort r emark o f the c hronicler, s aying tha t Bolesław ca me t o Hungary as an exile, w hom e ven a p easant would not obey,46 cl arifies these ostensible inconsistencies.

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