Godfrey of Viterbo and his Perception in Poland in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

The aim of the present volume is to study European influences of Godfrey of Viterbo ¹ and his political ideas. ² Several of Godfrey’s readers can be found in late-medieval Poland. Loren Weber, who conducted the latest research on the manuscripts scattered all over Europe, detected four manuscripts of Polish provenance ³ – out of 15 manuscripts of the Pantheon recension E which are known from all over Europe. I have examined the two surviving manuscripts (which were unknown to Georg Waitz, the nineteenth-century editor of Godfrey of Viterbo’s works). All these Polish manuscripts date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This distribution shows some interest in Godfrey’s works among Polish readers; and hence the question had to be asked, how intensively Godfrey’s political ideas were read and discussed in late-medieval Poland.