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What was Otto III up to?
This video is part of a collaboration about early medieval Poland.
M. Laser History's video: youtube.com/watch?v=phqnRzQgntY
History with Hilbert's channel: youtube.com/@historywithhilbert
Check out the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State
https://en.muzeumgniezno.pl/
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FOOTNOTES
1. Gerd Althoff, Otto III, trans. Phyllis G. Jestice (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), 82; Roman Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit: The Religious Premises of the Founding of the Archbishopric of Gniezno, trans. Anna Kijak (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 223.
2. Althoff, Otto III, 83; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 225–27.
3. Althoff, Otto III, 83–84; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 228–40.
4. See Anthony F. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” Speculum 24, no. 3 (1949): 341; Althoff, Otto III, 85–86.
5. For the life of Adalbert of Prague and the sources for it, see Ian Wood, The Missionary Life: Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe, 400–1050 (Harlow, Eng.: Longman, 2001), chapter 10.
6. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” 350, 352; Althoff, Otto III, 103; Andrzej Pleszczyński, “Poland as an Ally of the Holy Ottonian Empire,” in Europe around the Year 1000, ed. Przemysław Urbańczyk (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2001), 419; Tadeusz Manteuffel, The Formation of the Polish State: The Period of Ducal Rule, 963–1194, trans. Andrew Gorski (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982), 61.
7. Gesta Principum Polonorum: The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles, trans. Paul W. Knoll and Frank Schaer (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003), 34–41.
8. Althoff, Otto III, 90–91.
9. Althoff, Otto III, 99, 100–101.
10. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” 352, 355–56; Manteuffel, The Formation of the Polish State, 63, 75; Althoff, Otto III, 101; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 188.
11. Althoff, Otto III, 101.
12. Althoff, Otto III, 90; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 240–41.
13. Thietmar of Merseburg, Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, trans. and ed. David A. Warner (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001).
14. Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 104–105, 264. I was attempting to allude to passages like Rom. 16, 2 Cor. 8:23, and Col. 4:11.
15. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” 354–55; Pleszczyński, “Poland as an Ally of the Holy Ottonian Empire,” 421.
IMAGE CREDITS
Map of Holy Roman Empire in the year 1000
Wikimedia user Sémhur, CC BY-SA 3.0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Roman_Empire_11th_century_map-en.svg
Computer animation “Gród w Gnieźnie”
Courtesy of the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State
Photo of Drzwi gnieźnieńskie (Gniezno Doors), c. 1175
Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Gniezno
https://archidiecezja.pl/historia/drzwi-gnieznienskie/
Image of Otto III
Evangeliar Ottos III.
BSB Clm 4453
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00096593?page=21
Empress Zoe Mosaic
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Myrabella, public domain
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Empress_Zoe_mosaic_Hagia_Sophia.jpg
Image of Henry II
Pontifikale Benediktionale (sogenanntes Pontifikale Heinrichs II.)
Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc.Lit.53, 2v
deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/CVYKOXPZAAFGNUMT273SXWT3SQDRMQMA
Photo of the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State
MuzPoczPansPol1.jpg
Wikipedia user Aung, public domain
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MuzPoczPansPol1.jpg
What was Otto III up to?
This video is part of a collaboration about early medieval Poland.
M. Laser History's video: youtube.com/watch?v=phqnRzQgntY
History with Hilbert's channel: youtube.com/@historywithhilbert
Check out the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State
https://en.muzeumgniezno.pl/
youtube.com/@UCuXGeP9UO0y6-iR9T2WswBQ
FOOTNOTES
1. Gerd Althoff, Otto III, trans. Phyllis G. Jestice (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), 82; Roman Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit: The Religious Premises of the Founding of the Archbishopric of Gniezno, trans. Anna Kijak (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 223.
2. Althoff, Otto III, 83; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 225–27.
3. Althoff, Otto III, 83–84; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 228–40.
4. See Anthony F. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” Speculum 24, no. 3 (1949): 341; Althoff, Otto III, 85–86.
5. For the life of Adalbert of Prague and the sources for it, see Ian Wood, The Missionary Life: Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe, 400–1050 (Harlow, Eng.: Longman, 2001), chapter 10.
6. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” 350, 352; Althoff, Otto III, 103; Andrzej Pleszczyński, “Poland as an Ally of the Holy Ottonian Empire,” in Europe around the Year 1000, ed. Przemysław Urbańczyk (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2001), 419; Tadeusz Manteuffel, The Formation of the Polish State: The Period of Ducal Rule, 963–1194, trans. Andrew Gorski (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982), 61.
7. Gesta Principum Polonorum: The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles, trans. Paul W. Knoll and Frank Schaer (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003), 34–41.
8. Althoff, Otto III, 90–91.
9. Althoff, Otto III, 99, 100–101.
10. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” 352, 355–56; Manteuffel, The Formation of the Polish State, 63, 75; Althoff, Otto III, 101; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 188.
11. Althoff, Otto III, 101.
12. Althoff, Otto III, 90; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 240–41.
13. Thietmar of Merseburg, Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, trans. and ed. David A. Warner (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001).
14. Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 104–105, 264. I was attempting to allude to passages like Rom. 16, 2 Cor. 8:23, and Col. 4:11.
15. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” 354–55; Pleszczyński, “Poland as an Ally of the Holy Ottonian Empire,” 421.
IMAGE CREDITS
Map of Holy Roman Empire in the year 1000
Wikimedia user Sémhur, CC BY-SA 3.0
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Roman_Empire_11th_century_map-en.svg
Computer animation “Gród w Gnieźnie”
Courtesy of the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State
Photo of Drzwi gnieźnieńskie (Gniezno Doors), c. 1175
Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Gniezno
https://archidiecezja.pl/historia/drzwi-gnieznienskie/
Image of Otto III
Evangeliar Ottos III.
BSB Clm 4453
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00096593?page=21
Empress Zoe Mosaic
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Myrabella, public domain
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Empress_Zoe_mosaic_Hagia_Sophia.jpg
Image of Henry II
Pontifikale Benediktionale (sogenanntes Pontifikale Heinrichs II.)
Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc.Lit.53, 2v
deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/CVYKOXPZAAFGNUMT273SXWT3SQDRMQMA
Photo of the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State
MuzPoczPansPol1.jpg
Wikipedia user Aung, public domain
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MuzPoczPansPol1.jpg
