From Antemurale to Przedmurze, the History of the Term
Journal: Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce
Year: 2018

From Antemurale to Przedmurze, the History of the Term Even though the function of Poland as a bulwark in the history of modern Europe (and Christianity itself) has been frequently and eagerly discussed over the last several centuries, for a long time no researcher used it as the subject of a separate study. It was not until shortly before Poland regained independence that two popularising brochures were published, that is Fr. N. Cieszyski's Polska przed murzem chrzecijastwa (Pozna, 1916) and K.