TY - JOUR AU - Raczyńska, Sabina PY - 2020/06/13 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Ryszard Berwiński’s Studia o literaturze ludowej and Historiographical Concepts of the Early Slavic World in the Nineteenth Century JF - Literatura Ludowa. Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture JA - JFPC VL - 64 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.12775/LL.1.2020.002 UR - https://apcz.umk.pl/LL/article/view/LL.1.2020.002 SP - 17-28 AB - The aim of the article is to show how, in his Studia o literaturze ludowej (Studies on folk<br />literature), Ryszard Berwiński evaluated the nineteenth-century historiographical concepts of<br />the Slavic world and ancestry. The first part of the article discusses Berwiński’s approach to<br />the general theory of “folk element/energy”, whose influence manifested itself for example<br />in discussions of the history of literature as divided into Slavic-Polish and Latin-Polish. The<br />second part briefly introduces the nineteenth-century theories of the origin of the Polish<br />nation and their assessment in contemporary research. The third part of the article presents<br />how Ryszard Berwiński commented on those concepts, on the historiography of his time,<br />and on the ideas about the early Slavic world. ER -