List of Contributors Chapter 1 Memory of the Past. John Lydos on the Origins of Rome and Roman Offices in the Period of Kings Szymon Olszaniec Chapter 2 Macedonia between two worlds: Roman and Barbaricum (7th-9th centuries) Mitko B. Panov Chapter 3 Testimonies and Questions Related to the Elite Formation Process - the case of Antes (4th-7th century) Georgios Kardaras Chapter 4 (In)Visible Members of The Society: Children and Adolescents as Seen in a Tenth-Century Collection of Miracle Stories in Medieval Bulgaria Yanko M. Hristov Chapter 5 Rome in the early Piast state PrzemysÅaw UrbaÅczyk Chapter 6 Memory on the battle of Hlyrskógsheiðr and medieval development of the cult of St. Óláfr Jakub Morawiec Chapter 7 dame de cassel et ses mercenaires polonais. l'histoire de la création d'un duché Tamás Ölbei Chapter 8 Charlemagne in medieval illuminations: representations of religious and temporal power at the crossroads of the West and the East Sabina Madgearu Chapter 9 the battle of cedynia - memory vs. history. around 1050th anniversary of the events of 972 in cidini StanisÅaw Rosik Chapter 10 Imagination of royal power and monarchy in Polish cultural texts for children and youth Marcin Lisiecki Chapter 11 The Nature of the Rulers Power in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 13-14 century Yanina Ryier Chapter 12 Hungarian border defence strategy against early Hussite invasions Imre Solt Varga Chapter 13 Some Considerations on the Emergence of the Moldavian state (13-14 Century) Alexandru Madgearu Chapter 14 "It was said near the 'tower' of Mstislav".

Accounts of the Rus' princes from Deszt-i'Kipczak on the example of Mstislav Mstislavovich and Danilo Romanovich Dariusz DÄbrowski Chapter 15 Two Kings in One Realm: King Béla IV of Hungary and his Younger Brother, Prince Coloman Gábor Barabás Chapter 16 The Romanness of the Master Vincentius's Account on the BolesÅaw the Wrymouth's Campaign against NakÅo (Chronica Polonorum, III.14-17) RadosÅaw Kotecki Chapter 17 Magister Vincentius' Tales of Power. Roman Decor of the Early Piast Monarchy in the Chronica Polonorum Franciszek DÄbrowski Chapter 18 Rome, Christianity and the Empire - did Piasts need external legitimization of their power (2nd half of the 10th c. - beginning of the 12th c.) PrzemysÅaw Wiszewski.