Poland and the Renewal of the Roman Empire in the year 1000

What was Otto III up to? This video is part of a collaboration about early medieval Poland. M. Laser History's video:    • Introduction to Medieval Slavic Paganism   History with Hilbert's channel:    / @historywithhilbert   Check out the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State https://en.muzeumgniezno.pl/    / @muzeumpoczatkowpanstwapols7860   FOOTNOTES 1. Gerd Althoff, Otto III, trans. Phyllis G. Jestice (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), 82; Roman Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit: The Religious Premises of the Founding of the Archbishopric of Gniezno, trans. Anna Kijak (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 223. 2. Althoff, Otto III, 83; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 225–27. 3. Althoff, Otto III, 83–84; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 228–40. 4. See Anthony F. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” Speculum 24, no. 3 (1949): 341; Althoff, Otto III, 85–86. 5. For the life of Adalbert of Prague and the sources for it, see Ian Wood, The Missionary Life: Saints and the Evangelisation of Europe, 400–1050 (Harlow, Eng.: Longman, 2001), chapter 10. 6. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” 350, 352; Althoff, Otto III, 103; Andrzej Pleszczyński, “Poland as an Ally of the Holy Ottonian Empire,” in Europe around the Year 1000, ed. Przemysław Urbańczyk (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo DiG, 2001), 419; Tadeusz Manteuffel, The Formation of the Polish State: The Period of Ducal Rule, 963–1194, trans. Andrew Gorski (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982), 61. 7. Gesta Principum Polonorum: The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles, trans. Paul W. Knoll and Frank Schaer (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003), 34–41. 8. Althoff, Otto III, 90–91. 9. Althoff, Otto III, 99, 100–101. 10. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” 352, 355–56; Manteuffel, The Formation of the Polish State, 63, 75; Althoff, Otto III, 101; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 188. 11. Althoff, Otto III, 101. 12. Althoff, Otto III, 90; Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 240–41. 13. Thietmar of Merseburg, Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, trans. and ed. David A. Warner (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001). 14. Michałowski, The Gniezno Summit, 104–105, 264. I was attempting to allude to passages like Rom. 16, 2 Cor. 8:23, and Col. 4:11. 15. Czajkowski, “The Congress of Gniezno in the Year 1000,” 354–55; Pleszczyński, “Poland as an Ally of the Holy Ottonian Empire,” 421. IMAGE CREDITS Map of Holy Roman Empire in the year 1000 Wikimedia user Sémhur, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Computer animation “Gród w Gnieźnie” Courtesy of the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State Photo of Drzwi gnieźnieńskie (Gniezno Doors), c. 1175 Courtesy of the Archdiocese of Gniezno https://archidiecezja.pl/historia/drz... Image of Otto III Evangeliar Ottos III. BSB Clm 4453 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en... Empress Zoe Mosaic Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Myrabella, public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Image of Henry II Pontifikale Benediktionale (sogenanntes Pontifikale Heinrichs II.) Staatsbibliothek Bamberg Msc.Lit.53, 2v https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliot... Photo of the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State MuzPoczPansPol1.jpg Wikipedia user Aung, public domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...