Uroczystość hołdu pruskiego w Krakowie 10 kwietnia 1525 roku w świetle diariuszy profesorów Uniwersytetu Krakowskiego

Abstract

THE CELEBRATION OF THE PRUSSIAN HOMAGE IN KRAKÓW ON 10 APRIL 1525 IN THE LIGHT OF THE DIARIES OF THE PROFESSORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KRAKÓW

The Prussian Homage of 1525 was one of the most significant events in the history of Poland, yet the base of source materials used to describe it is relatively modest. The goal of this paper is to draw the readers’ attention to the material offered by the diaries of the professors of the University of Kraków which has been largely overlooked and insufficiently exploited in historical research to date. Diaries are the daily records documenting events from the authors’ private or public lives (including their academic, municipal, church or state-related aspects) written on the pages of ephemerides, or printed astronomical calendars. A large collection of such sources has been preserved at the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków. The Prussian Homage and the circumstances associated with it have been recorded in the diaries of several university professors: doctors Łukasz Noskowski and Mikołaj Sokolnicki, theologian Marcin Biem from Olkusz, and philosopher Stanisław Aurifabr (Lubart) from Kraków. This set of sources is complemented by two versions of diary notes of theologian Grzegorz from Stawiszyn (self-edited by the author). While some of these sources have been familiar to historians, they have not been consistently explored for the purpose of research. The article presents the texts of these historical notes and analyses their contents, contributing some new, minor supplementary data to what has been known so far about the course of the homage ceremony itself, as well as its social reception.