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Milliman P.
The Slippery Memory of Men
The Place of Pomerania in the Medieval Kingdom of Poland
BRILL, Leiden (The Netherlands) 2013
Scheda a cura di: Milliman P.
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Vol. 21
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
Table of contents
Acknowledgments ... vii
List of Abbreviations ... xi
Maps ... xiii
Introduction ... 1
1. A iugo principum Polonie, a iugo Theutonicorum:
Pomerania and the South Baltic Frontier of Latin Christendom in the Early Thirteenth Century ... 23
2. 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 ... 65
3. The Restorations of the Kingdom of Poland and the Foundation of the
Teutonic Ordensstaat at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century ... 94
4. Immortalis Discordia: Eternal Enmity, Massacre, and Memorialization in the German-Polish Borderlands ... 139
5. Pomerania between Poland and Prussia: Lordship, Ethnicity, Territoriality, and Memory ... 196
Conclusion ... 255
Appendix 1. The Procurator-General of the Teutonic Knights Pleads His
Case to the Papal Curia Concerning the Gdansk Massacre, 1310 ... 263
Appendix 2. The Claims Submitted by the Polish Procurators in 1320 ... 267
Appendix 3. The Claims Submitted by the Royal Procurator in 1339 ... 269
Bibliography ... 279
Index ... 313
A cura di Giulia Tarquini