European Expansion and the Contested Borderlands of Late Medieval Podillya, Ukraine / by Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy

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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 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: Wladyslaw II Jagiello or Vytautas? -- Chapter 8. The Opening of an Unknown Territory to Newcomers -- Chapter 9. The Struggle for Podillya: Jagiello, 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.

This book tells the history of Europe's eastern frontier, and particularly medieval Podillya, as a dynamic nexus of cultural, political, economic, and religious interaction.