Overview

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.

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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.--Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University

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Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy specializes in the late-medieval and early-modern history of East Central Europe. He is the author of Elastic Community (Kiev, 2012)

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