The birth of a stereotype : Polish rulers and their country in German writings, c. 1000 A.D. / / by Andrzej Pleszczynski.

• Superior document: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, v. 15
• Author: Pleszczyński, Andrzej.
• שנת הוצאה לאור: 2011
• מהדורה: 1st ed.
• שפה: English
• סדרה: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; v. 15.
• תיאור פיזי: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• הערות: Description based upon print version of record.

In early Medieval Western Europe intellectuals were used to indicate the external location of Slavic countries, as though outside civilization, with the term ‘the North’. The problem did not only concern nomenclature. The stereotype associated with ‘the North’ pointed at the obvious cold weather, bu...