In the second half of the 19th century, the ongoing process of modernization of the European economy also reached the agriculture in Poland. Mechanization, modern methods of cultivation and of breeding animals, financing ...

Vladislaus of Opole (1326/1330–1401), a representative of the Upper Silesian line of the Piast dynasty, played an important role in the history of a few countries in the central and eastern Europe. He was certainly one ...

The article is devoted to the history of small towns incorporated in the 14th century that were located on the borderland of Silesia and Lesser Poland. It analyses four centres located in the so-called central area of ...

Hinczka of Raszkowice, Działosza Coats of Arms came from the Silesian lesser nobility. His assets were located near Środa Śląska. Probably thanks to the influences of the Duke of Opole Vladislaus, a former lieutenant of ...

For the purpose of this article, the term “elite” is defined as “a category of people who are of utmost importance in a particular community, influence the authorities and shape social attitudes”. In the case of a ...

Piotr of Byczyna wrote in his work Cronica principum poloniae (dated at end of the 14th century) about the impossibility of finding information about Piasts of Opole. The medieval Silesian historiography did not devote ...

The article provides a critical summary and a verification of the knowledge about the poem De quodam advocato Cracoviensi Alberto, which in Polish papers is usually referred to as Pieśń o wójcie krakowskiem Albercie. ...

John of Bohemia was using the title of the king of Poland since 1310. However, the events that took place in Poland in the years 1311–1312 did not alter the main direction of his political activity. At that time, his ...