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In the second part of our Brief History of Poland series, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill looks at the Piast dynasty in the period between 1025 and 1370. He examines the development of the dynasty, the feudal fragmentation of the kingdom and its restoration, the rising conflict with the Teutonic Knights, the dazzling reign of Kazimierz the Great, and the oldest known Polish song – Bogurodzica.
The Brief History of Poland series will cover over a thousand years of Polish political and cultural history, from 966 until today.
Producer: Sebastian Leśniewski
Check out the first episode in our Brief History of Poland series – below.
Main image credit: Black Madonna of Częstochowa (under public domain).
Music credit: Collegium Vocale (under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license).
Excerpt from Bogurodzica: Translated by David Welsh, in Monumenta Polonica: The First Four Centuries of Polish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, ed. Bogdana Carpenter (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Slavic Publications, 1989).
Stanley Bill is the founder and editor-at-large of Notes from Poland. He is also Professor of Polish Studies and Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge. He has spent more than ten years living in Poland, mostly based in Kraków and Bielsko-Biała.
He is the Chair of the Board of the Notes from Poland Foundation.
