Wolin - the Old Town, vol. I: Settlement Structure, Stratigraphy & Chronology, ed. M. Rębkowski, Szczecin 2019, 2019
The chapter collects all dendrodates, radiocarbon dates and other chronological indicators obtain... more The chapter collects all dendrodates, radiocarbon dates and other chronological indicators obtained so far from the central settlement of early medieval Wolin. On their basis, a new proposal for chronology of the emporium is presented.
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The beginnings and emergence of Pomerania have so far only been researched superficially. In the book, the author attempts to fill this gap by using the results of archaeological research to investigate the problem and these confronted with the written sources. Finally, he indicates both the period and the area in which the monarchic rule emerged, but also describes the processes the emergence of the Pomeranian state from a historical and anthropological-cultural perspective.
The starting point for the studies was the socio-political situation as reconstructed for the end of the 9th century and the first half of the 10th century. It has been indictated that gradual process of socio-economic and political changes in the area began in the period between the last decades of the 10th century to the mid-11th century. At that time most of the old strongholds disappeared and the rest survived became seats of a centralised power. The formation of a completely new organisation of the social space, together with cultural changes tha occured then, can be recognised as a manifestation of the creation of new systems of power, a new type of social organisation, and perhaps new systems of values. a manifestation of the creation of new systems of power, a new type of social organisation, and perhaps new systems of values. Thus, the process associated with the formation of statehood in Pomerania should be dated to the time of the crisis and the collapse of the of the monarchic power in Poland from the one side, and the dawn of the Viking Age, from the other.
However, only in the 1170s, the Duchy of Pomerania experienced the final consolidation of the systemic solutions that were characteristic of an early medieval monarchic rule in the Latin Europe. By that time, Pomerania had been ruled by a local dynasty for several generations. The Duchy had its own Church organisation and stable territorial administration. The ideological basis of the government was – as everywhere else – Christianity. Dukes minted their own coin and adapted other western European models and solutions. This was expressed, for instance, in the appearance of court officials at that time, or depictions of the dukes on seals and the obverse of coins in which they were presented as sovereign rulers. Despite all of this, within a dozen or so years the Pomeranian state lost its independence to neighbouring powers – first to the Kingdom of Denmark and later to the Holy Roman Empire.
The beginnings and emergence of Pomerania have so far only been researched superficially. In the book, the author attempts to fill this gap by using the results of archaeological research to investigate the problem and these confronted with the written sources. Finally, he indicates both the period and the area in which the monarchic rule emerged, but also describes the processes the emergence of the Pomeranian state from a historical and anthropological-cultural perspective.
The starting point for the studies was the socio-political situation as reconstructed for the end of the 9th century and the first half of the 10th century. It has been indictated that gradual process of socio-economic and political changes in the area began in the period between the last decades of the 10th century to the mid-11th century. At that time most of the old strongholds disappeared and the rest survived became seats of a centralised power. The formation of a completely new organisation of the social space, together with cultural changes tha occured then, can be recognised as a manifestation of the creation of new systems of power, a new type of social organisation, and perhaps new systems of values. a manifestation of the creation of new systems of power, a new type of social organisation, and perhaps new systems of values. Thus, the process associated with the formation of statehood in Pomerania should be dated to the time of the crisis and the collapse of the of the monarchic power in Poland from the one side, and the dawn of the Viking Age, from the other.
However, only in the 1170s, the Duchy of Pomerania experienced the final consolidation of the systemic solutions that were characteristic of an early medieval monarchic rule in the Latin Europe. By that time, Pomerania had been ruled by a local dynasty for several generations. The Duchy had its own Church organisation and stable territorial administration. The ideological basis of the government was – as everywhere else – Christianity. Dukes minted their own coin and adapted other western European models and solutions. This was expressed, for instance, in the appearance of court officials at that time, or depictions of the dukes on seals and the obverse of coins in which they were presented as sovereign rulers. Despite all of this, within a dozen or so years the Pomeranian state lost its independence to neighbouring powers – first to the Kingdom of Denmark and later to the Holy Roman Empire.
Archaeology of the Slavs. Marek Dulinicz in Memoriam
Pages: 297
PL ISSN 0066-5924
Publisher: The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Editors of the volume: Mateusz Bogucki and Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz