. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . ense sumat that time, and equal to her dowry from her grandfather. With regard to the learning of this period, we first meet with the monkishhistorian, Gallus, who wrote between the years 1110 and 1135. His histoiycommences in 825, and extends to 1118. According to the custom of his THE EARLIEST YEARS OF POLAND 39 11382 A. D.] order, he wrote in bad Latin verse. He was followed by Matthew Cholewa,bishop of Cracow, and Vinc
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . ense sumat that time, and equal to her dowry from her grandfather. With regard to the learning of this period, we first meet with the monkishhistorian, Gallus, who wrote between the years 1110 and 1135. His histoiycommences in 825, and extends to 1118. According to the custom of his THE EARLIEST YEARS OF POLAND 39 11382 A. D.] order, he wrote in bad Latin verse. He was followed by Matthew Cholewa,bishop of Cracow, and Vincent Kadlubek. This latter writer was also diocesanof the same see, and was born about the year 1160. He wrote in the time ofCasiniir the Just, and in his history attempts to penetrate the mysteries of thePolish origin. But the circumstance which most conduced to the promotionof learning in Poland was the foundation of the University of Cracow, byCasimir the Great, in 1347. It was regulated in imitation of that of Paris,and such eminence had its professors attained in a short time that PopeUrban V estimated it, in 1364, as equal to any of the universities of Europe, c.
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