The publication is opened with Piotr Boron’s study, entitled „Universa populi mutitudo. The problem of participation in Slavonic polemic mass meetings”. The author gives a detailed profile of the Slavonic model of a tribal political system.

Idzi Panic is the author of the article entitled „Years 891—892. The last attempt at subordinating The Great Moravian Empire to Eastern Franks”. The author describes in it a great war (along with the preceding diplomatic endeavours) in which a grand coalition organised by the East Frankonian king Arnulf, together with the Hungarian forces and a Slavic prince Braclav took part. King Swietopelk’s opponents experienced a total failure which enabled the king’s sons to seize power with no great effort a couple of years later (894/895).

Maria Blahova in her article „The Czech Kings’ Medieval Catalogues and their source value” presents a meticulous register and wide-ranging analysisi of the Czech kings and princes’ medieval catalogues, stored in the collections of numerous Czech, Austrian and German libraries and in Poland, in the University Library in Wroclaw. The author also indicates mutual relationships and analogies, as well as differences between individual catalogues. She also reveals the inner structure of the particular records corresponding to the successive rulers.

Klaudia Drożdż, Ma, is the author of „On education and alleged monkhood of Casimir the Restorer”. In it she convincingly refutes the thesis of Casmir the Restorer’s monkhood.

Michal Dragoun in his study „A fragment of a Premonstratensian calendar in Hradisti near Olomouc from the third quarter of the 12th century” puts together the knowledge of this calendar and also determines all its subsequent records. The author encloses the remaining fragment of the Calendar together with its critique.

Petr Kubin in „The family of blessed Hroznata” discusses ancestors and distant members of the family of Blessed Hroznata, the Czech magnate, the founder of Premonstratensian monasteries in Teple and Chotesov. He also shows the fate, status and connections between individual Czech feudal lords and Polish ones in the 1 “ half of the 12th century.

Lech Tyszkiewicz in the study „Colonisation and economy in the area of Trzebnica at the beginning of the 13tl‘ century” shows the stages of building the foundations of the Trzebnica monastery, the nature of the system of management and securing the necessary workforce.

In „Ecclesiastical law in the diocese of Olomouc” Dr P. Kraft gives a detailed description of the process of canon law dissemination in Moravia in this diocese. The author also points to the role and place of schools and the Prague University in the development of juridical konwledge, and earlier, before the foundation of the Prague bishopric, Mainz diocese synods.

Jerzy Sperka in the article „The families of Szafraniec, Koniecpolski, Kozieglowski and Chrząstowski — unknown aftinties and their influence on the functioning of the political scene during the reign of Vladislav Jagiełło” presents some of the families and houses’ relationships and their role in public life in the Poland of the Jagiellonians. Also numerous biographical details of a number of noblemen have been corrected.

Jerzy Strzelczyk and his study „Towards the Republic of many nationalities and religions: the Catholic and the Orthodox Church in the late medieval Poland”. The author introduces many statements concerning the attitude towards the people ethnically, linguistically and religiously foreign in the late medieval Poland in contrast to the 12th and 13d" centuries, when negative stereotypes towards foreigners were common among rulers, and secular and church elite. The author presents also changes in ethnic and religious structures in the Jagiellonian Poland. In this article a researcher can find sources of Polish tolerance from the 16th and the early part of the 17th century, which the whole contemporary Europe could not egual.

Borys Paszkiewicz’s essay „Discoveries of medieval coins and counters in the Old Tower of Cieszyn Castle” is a report of the treasure of 15th century halers from the Racibórz and Opawa mints, as well as a group of four brass counters from the last years of the 15th century, made in Nürnberg. The author also gives their numismatic interpretation.

Bożena Czwojdrak, in her genealogical study „Relationships by marriage of Dzierslav and Jan Rytwanski (coat of arms: Jastrzębiec) — a contribution to the genealogy of magnates of Little Poland in the IS01 century” refutes a thesis concerning the marriage of Dzierslav of Rytwiany and Anna Teczynska.

Roman Stelmach in the essay „Resources of documents of the National Archive in Wroclaw” presents extensive resources of the archive, the stages of its creating, the losses suffered during the World War II, and the ways the collections were won back. The material presented could be of great use to researchers using the archive.