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European Expansion and the Contested Borderlands of Late Medieval Podillya, Ukraine
Series: Beyond Medieval Europe
192 Pages, Trim size: 156 x 234 mm
- Hardcover
- 9781641890304
- Published: June 2019
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.
PART 1: THE LOST HISTORICAL REGION OF EUROPE
Chapter 1: The Region with a New Name in Ruthenian Lands after 1340
Chapter 2: Territory without Borders: Is It Possible?
Chapter 3: The Main Centres of Podillya in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century
PART 2: THE PODOLIAN PRINCIPALITY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 4: Three Tatar Kingdoms in the Western Part of the Golden Horde in the Middle of the Fourteenth Century
Chapter 5: The Koriatovych Brothers at the Service of Casimir III the Great and Louis I of Hungary
Chapter 6: Spytek of Melsztyn: The New “Prince” from Kraków
PART 3: BETWEEN THE POLISH KINGDOM AND THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA: PODILLYA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 7: Choosing the Better Leader: Władysław II Jagiełło or Vytautas?
Chapter 8: The Opening of an Unknown Territory to Newcomers
Chapter 9: The Struggle for Podillya: Jagiełło, Švitrigaila, the Shadow of Vytautas, and Pro-Polish Newcomers
PART 4: THE EDGE OF EUROPE IN THE EAST: THE PODOLIAN VOIVODESHIP AFTER 1434
Chapter 10: New Law, New Officials, and New People in the Region
Chapter 11: Patrons and Clients: The Formation of a Patronage System among the Podolian Nobility in the Fifteenth Century: The Buczacki Clientele Circle
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index
Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy specializes in the late-medieval and early-modern history of East Central Europe. He is the author of Elastic Community (Kiev, 2012)
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
~Sven Jaros, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 69, no. 4 (2021): 641-43
zwischen Ost und West bei der Erforschung der europäischen Geschichte zu überwinden.
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