The volume begins with Väclav Dr Ska’s (Praha) paper titled “Divisio legitima." K stabilizaci “dil&ch” krdlovstvi franskś tite ve druhć polovini 6. stoleti. The author discusse the internal political situation in the Franc’s state from 511 to the second half of the 6th century when the state power was stabilized after the period of dynastic conflicts.

Idzi Panic (Katowice) is the author of the paper titled The Idea of the State and the Ruler in the Oldest Cyryl and Metody’s Lives of Saints. Having analyzed the sources mentioned in the title the author finds out that in the lives there is no information on whose basis one could formulate conclusions on the understanding of the idea of state and ruler in the Great Moravian State during the rule of Rostislav and Svietopelek. The sources discussed cannot be the basis of research on the consciousness of Great Moravian society.

Dariusz Adamczyk (Hannover) in the article Oriental-Baltic Trade System and the Process of Shaping Eastern Europe in 9th and 10th Centuries outlines the development of trade between the Baltic basin and the Byzantium-Arabic area in 9th and 10th centuries and present its einfluence on the creation of state organisms in Eastern Europe.

Lesław Spychała (Wrocław) is the author of the paper titled “Dicunt… Gog et Magog esse Hungaros…” The problems of the Medieval origines gentium. He provides a detailed analysis of the 10'h-century (or ll^-century) source in which Hungarians were associated with the Apocalyptic Gog and Magog.

Marie Bláhová (Praha) in her paper Stát a vláda státu v pojetí kronikáře Kosmy present the idea and politics related understanding of the institution of state and of broadly understood state power in the eyes of the Czech chronicler Kosmas who wrote in the first part of the 12th century.

Marek Cetwiński (Częstochowa) present a paper title By Crook or by Power? Special Actions and their Evaluation in Silesian Chronicles. Analyzing the sources in detail, the author present an evaluation of the events connected with the capturing of Prince Wolodar Rościsławowic by palatine Piotr Włostowic which took place in 1120 and the circumstances of the conflict (1145) of Piotr Włostowic with Prince Władysław II Wygnaniec.

Stanisław Bylina (Warszawa) in the paper titled Before the Thousand-Year Kingdom Comes. Two Trends in Chiliastic Prophecies in 14“ and 15“ Centuries present two trends of the Late-Medieval chialism; one connected with the Franciscan faction in south-western Europe and the other which functioned within the radical wing of the Czech Husite mevement.

Jerzy Sperka (Katowice) in the paper titled The Sieradz Assembly of 1432 and the Matter of Succession to the Polish Throne after Wladyslaw Jagiełło proves on the basis of analysis of sources that at the Sieradz Assembly, against the information contained in Jan Dlugosz’s chronicle which was assumed by other historians, no changes took place in the matter of the succesion to the Polish throne after Władysław Jagiełło established by the Jedlnia Act of 1430.

Bożena Czwojdrak (Katowice) in the paper titled A Few Remarks on Spytko z Melsztyna's Confederation of 1439 present some new findings concerning the circumstances of the confederation established in Nowe Miasto Korczyn on May 3rd, 1439. She also puts forward a hypothesis that the Battle of Grotniki took place on May 6“, rather than on May 4th, 1439.

Stanislaw A. Sroka’s (Kraków) paper titled Two Contributions the History of the Church in the 15“ Century consists of two parts. In the first one the author proves that the Bishop of Transylvania in the years 1443—1461 was Maciej z Łabiszyna, a Pole and not, as it has been though so far, da la Bischino, an Italian. The second part presents a relation of a Hungarian clergyman from his travel to Rome in 1494.

Alicja Szymczakowa (Łódź) in the paper The Warta Citizens at the Sieradz Courts of Law in the 15“ Century characterizes the citizens of the Royal Town of Warta in the 15th century on the basis of courts’ registers, town registers, and land registers of the Sieradz Region.

Jan Tęgowski (Toruń—Białystok) in the paper titled Jan Janowic Zabrzeziński’s Secret Wedding (Some Remarks on the Family Ties of the Magnate Elite in Lithuania in the 15“ Century and a the Beginning of the 16“ Century) present the so far unknown family colligations of the magnate elite in Lithuania.