Were strongholds church centres in the tenth-and eleventh-century Piast realm?
Were strongholds church centres in the tenth-and eleventh-century Piast realm?
Author(s): Marcin DanielewskiContributor(s): Agnieszka Tokarczuk (Translator)
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Cultural history, Comparative history, Military history, Middle Ages, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: strongholds;church centres;Kujawy;cremation burials;inhumation cemeteries;
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to review the idea of strongholds as church centres, put forward by Tadeusz Lalik in 1967. The paper also seeks to determine how advanced was the process of the Christianisation of the Polish lands in the second half of the tenth and throughout the eleventh centuries.
Journal: Historia Slavorum Occidentis
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 13-35
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English