Średniopolskie katalogi władców jako narzędzie kształtowania pamięci zbiorowej

Abstract

The study presents communication strategies (credibility of content, mythical and legendary stylization, evaluation of content) and language resources that are used to shape collective memory in the so-called catalogues of rulers, a genre of historiographic writing characteristic of Old Polish culture. The linguistic ways of shaping collective memory which are presented lead to the statement that in the more distant past people were aware of the possibility to influence what will be remembered and how, and Middle Polish catalogues of rulers viewed in the light of the category of collective memory appear as a mnemonic course of knowledge about their own past.