"The slippery memory of men" [electronic resource] : the place of Pomerania in the medieval Kingdom of Poland / by Paul Milliman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milliman, Paul.

Series:

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 21.

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 1872-8103 ; v. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Poland--History--To 1500.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Germany--History--To 1500.

Pomerania (Poland and Germany)--History.

Pomerania (Poland and Germany).

Poland--History--14th century.

Poland.

Pomerania (Poland and Germany)--Relations--Poland.

Poland--Relations--Pomerania (Poland and Germany).

Teutonic Knights--History--To 1500.

Teutonic Knights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Paul Milliman's The Slippery Memory of Men is the first monograph on the role played by the early fourteenth-century trials between Poland and the Teutonic Knights in the restoration of the Polish kingdom. It is also only the second English-language monograph on this important transitional period in Polish history and the first in over 40 years. Milliman first analyzes the thirteenth-century borderland society of the south Baltic littoral, especially in Pomerania, and then uses the lengthy testimonies of over 150 witnesses from the fourteenth-century trials to examine the role of the memory of this borderland in informing the witnesses' views of where the kingdom of Poland was as well as who should be included within its boundaries.

Contents:

A iugo principum Polonie, a iugo Theutonicorum : Pomerania and the south Baltic frontier of Latin Christendom in the early thirteenth century

Dealing with the past and planning for the future : contested memories, conflicted loyalties, and the partition and donation of Pomerania in the late thirteenth century

The restorations of the Kingdom of Poland and the foundation of the Teutonic Ordensstaat at the turn of the fourteenth century

Immortalis Discordia : eternal enmity, massacre, and memorialization in the German-Polish borderlands

Pomerania between Poland and Prussia : lordship, ethnicity, territoriality, and memory

Appendix 1: The Procurator-General of the Teutonic Knights pleads his case to the Papal Curia concerning the Gdansk Massacre, 1310

Appendix 2: The claims submitted by the Polish Procurators in 1320

Appendix 3: The claims submitted by the Royal Procurator in 1339.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-24380-1

OCLC:

827208843

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004243804 DOI