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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786021803321

Autore

Milliman Paul

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Brill, 2013

ISBN

90-04-24380-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

943.8/022

Soggetti

Borderlands - Poland - History - To 1500

Borderlands - Germany - History - To 1500

Pomerania (Poland and Germany) History

Poland History 14th century

Pomerania (Poland and Germany) Relations Poland

Poland Relations Pomerania (Poland and Germany)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.