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Dariusz Dąbrowski, Genealogia Mścisławowiczów. Pierwsze pokolenia (do początku XIV w.) [The Genealogy of the Mstis-lavovich Family: The First Generations (up to the Beginning of the 14th Century)], Kraków 2008, ‘Avalon’, 816+14 pp., 35 genealogical tables, index of persons, sum. in English

The author discusses one of the lines of the Russian Rurikovich family, the linę of Mstislav, son of Vladimir Monomakh (b. 1076, prince of Kiev from 1125, d. 1132) and five generations of his descendants (the last generation examined by Dąbrowski died out at the turn of the 14th century). On pp. 67-730 the book presents the biographies of 162 known members of the family, including 52 women and eight children whose gender has not been established. The biographies, the fruit of the author’s own research, correct many items of fallacious information which have appeared in the earlier literaturę. Thus, according to Dąbrowski, 116 of these persons definitely, 10 persons probably, belonged to the Mstislavovich family, and 36 have been wrongly included in the family. The author emphasizes the important role played by the Mstis-lavovich family in the history of Ruthenia; the ancestor of the family was the last medieval duke to govern the whole country and his descendants for a long time wielded power in the Duchy of Smoleńsk (12th— 15th centuries), the Duchy of Halich-Vladimir (12th—14th centuries) and for some time also in Novgorod the Great, Pskov and Polotsk. (JA)

Daniel Bagi, Królowie węgierscy w 'Kronice' Galla Anonima [Hungarian Kings in the Anonymous Gaul’s Chronicie], Kraków 2008, Oficyna Wydawniczo-Drukarska ‘Secesja’, 238 pp., 2 maps, index, series: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, Rozprawy Wydziału Historyczno-Filozoficznego, vol. 108

This is an enlarged Polish translation of the Hungarian 2005 edition. According to the author, the way in which Gallus selected and presented the kings of the Arpad dynasty, the fact that he wrote about places in Hungary and the terminology used by him indicate that he was well acąuainted with Hungarian writings from the time of Coloman the Learned. This means that the chronicler must have spent quite a long time in Hungary between ca 1099 and ca 1110. Bagi emphasizes that at the end of the llth century and the beginning of the 12th all Hungarian intellectuals were from outside Hungary. Gallus was not an exception. His language indicates that he must have come from northern France or Flanders, where he had acąuired education. A separate digression (pp. 176-201) is a polemic with Tomasz Jasiński in whose opinion Gallus was connected with a monastery on the Venetian Lido and was ‘Monachus Littorensis’, the author of the Historia de translatione sanctorum Magni Nicolai... (JA)