After receiving a primary education in Franconia, Jadwiga was married in 1186 to Prince Henry of Silesia, an heir to one of the Piast dukes of mediaeval Poland, during a time when the Polish kingdom ...
In the ‘Table culture’ series, Monika Kucia looks at today’s Polish table culture ... The pelican was a symbol of the medieval world and of the Teutonic Order; the figure of a pelican tearing out its ...