Dyskusja wokół istnienia drugiej metropolii w Polsce pierwotnej w ujęciu wybitnych polskich historyków XX stulecia

Abstract

The paper entitled “A Discussion Around the Existence of the Second Metropoly in the Primitive Poland According to the Eminent Polish Historians of the Twentieth Century” is dedicated to Prof. Grażyna Karolewicz. It is an attempt to show the positions of several eminent Polish historians, as regards the mystery of the existence, aside to Gniezno, of a second metropoly in Poland in the times of the early Piast dynasty. The paper depicts reconstructions and hypotheses of such scholars as: W. Abraham, S. Kętrzyński, Rev. J. Umiński, H. Paszkiewicz, K. Lanckorońska, and G. labuda. They have made it possible to turn our attention to an excerpt from the “Chronicle” by Gall Anonymous, the part that says about the second metropolitan bishop in the times of Bolesław Chrobry, and understand it as a text written in the spirit of praising the magnitude and excellence of Poland.