European Expansion and the Contested Borderlands of Late Medieval Podillya, Ukraine
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Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy
About this book
This book focuses on a key zone within the eastern frontier of medieval Europe: Podillya in modern-day Ukraine. Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy offers a definitive guide to the region, which experienced great cultural and religious diversity, together with a continuous influx of newcomers. This is where Christian farmers met Muslim nomads. This is where German town residents and Polish nobles met urban Armenians and Tatars serving in the military. The territory emerged in historical narrative when Lithuanian and Polish rulers divided the legacy of the Ruthenian Kingdom and pushed Tatars back to the steppe. For one hundred and fifty years, this territory passed through many dominions – a western part of the Golden Horde, a principality under the Koriatovych brothers, a turf partitioned among the Polish kingdom and the duchy of Lithuania. Podillya offers a unique opportunity to see interaction of so many peoples, principalities, and cultures – the eastern frontier of Europe at its most dynamic.
Author / Editor information
Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy specializes in the late-medieval and early-modern history of East Central Europe. He is the author of Elastic Community (Kiev, 2012)
Reviews
Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy gehört zu den wichtigsten Stimmen der neueren ukrainischen Politik- und Adelsgeschichte der Vormoderne. Sein Fokus liegt dabei auf der Region Podolien (ukr. Podillja) im späten 15. und frühen 16. Jahrhundert. Diese erste englischsprachige Monographie des Autors ist dabei in mehrfacher Weise verdienstvoll. Sie stellt die Region als „contested borderland" einem internationalen Publikum vor, dem dieser Teil Europas überwiegend unbekannt ist. Dabei synthetisiert er nicht nur seine eigenen Arbeiten, sondern auch die polnische, ukrainische und russische Forschung. Die lange im engen Korsett nationalstaatlicher Historiographien marginalisierte Region rückt daher ins Zentrum einer multiperspektivischen und grenzüberschreitenden Darstellung.[...]
Trotz der genannten Kritikpunkte ist es dem Buch zu wünschen, ein breites Publikum zu finden. Mykhaylovskiys Studie führt die „elastische" podolische Adelsgesellschaft in die internationale Debatte ein und kann somit einen weiteren wichtigen Beitrag dazu leisten, die mentalen Grenzen zwischen Ost und West bei der Erforschung der europäischen Geschichte zu überwinden.
Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University:
Essential reading for understanding Europe’s relations with its own nomadic East. This book departs from regional and national narratives and presents Podillya in a broad transnational context. Our knowledge of European history is incomplete without it.
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PART 1: THE LOST HISTORICAL REGION OF EUROPE
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PART 2. THE PODOLIAN PRINCIPALITY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
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PART 3. BETWEEN THE POLISH KINGDOM AND THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA: PODILLYA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
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PART 4: THE EDGE OF EUROPE IN THE EAST: THE PODOLIAN VOIVODESHIP AFTER 1434
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