Meeting with Professor Edward Rymar entitled “Barnim I – Prince of the breakthrough” – announcement
Ladies and Gentlemen, we would like to invite you on 7 December at 12:00 to the Historical Institute US (ul. Krakowska 71-79, room 067 – conference room) for an open scientific meeting, during which a meeting with Prof. Edward Rymar* entitled “Barnim I – Prince of the Turning Point” will be held. The meeting is devoted to this outstanding ruler of Pomerania, who, during his half-century-long reign, led his country into an era of civilisational change. Hence his reign is regarded as a watershed – a time of transition in the process of organisation and establishment of the state, which departed from the model built in the early Middle Ages and became a fully formed entity with separate states, a fully developed European culture, when the long-lasting process of Christianisation and incorporation of the area into Western European civilisation came to a close.
This event is organised on the occasion of the publication of the latest monograph on the Prince by Professor Edward Rymar, published by the Avalon Publishing House, entitled: “Barnim I, Duke of Slavs in Pomerania (ca. 1220/21 – 1278)”. This is the first biography of Barnim I, Duke of Western Pomerania, on the Polish publishing market.
The meeting takes place in a series of workshops entitled. “Perspectives on border region studies in Szczecin” as part of our project. This time we reach out to the borderlands of the medieval civilisation worlds.
* Prof. Edward Rymar, historian, medievalist, outstanding expert on the history of the New March and Pomerania. Until his retirement, he was affiliated with the Institute of History at the University of Szczecin. Previously, director of the District and City Public Library in Pyrzyce for many years. Author of several thousand scientific and popular works. One of the doyens of Szczecin’s historical environment.
