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Annales seu cronicae incliti Regni Poloniae

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Jan Dlugosz's Annales seu cronicae incliti Regni Poloniae, completed around 1480, is a primary fifteenth century Polish chronicle; the atlas asserts no exact year because the work's own completion date is itself approximate. Its strength is that it is a major and early source for Polish history, including its own late and much doubted account of the Slavic gods, such as its comparison of Marzanna to Ceres. Its limit is precisely that lateness: Dlugosz wrote centuries after the paganism he describes had been supplanted, so his account of Slavic religion is generally read by scholars as unreliable testimony to it, whatever its value for later medieval Polish history.

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Jan Dlugosz's Annales seu cronicae incliti Regni Poloniae, completed around 1480, the middle tier reflecting that it is a major and early source for Polish history generally, weighed against its own account of the pre-Christian Slavic gods, written centuries after that paganism had been supplanted and generally read by scholars as unreliable testimony to it.
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Fifteenth-century Polish chronicle whose account of Slavic gods, including the comparison of Marzanna to Ceres, is late and much doubted. Completed about 1480; no year asserted.
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Jan Dlugosz
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primary-text
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Ceres, Deities

This source names Ceres directly: "such as its comparison of Marzanna to Ceres."

Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)

This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Deities, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.

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