The Formation of the Polish State
Subtitle: The Period of Ducal Rule, 963-1194
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: June 1981
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng; pol
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780814316825
Subjects: Eastern Europe - Poland; Eastern Europe - History; Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450); History - General History; History; Piast period, 960-1386; Poland
Description: 171 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
Notes: Translation, with minor changes, of: "Polska w okresie prawa książęcego, 963-1194", published in 1976 in the author's Historyk wobec historii, p. 122-263. Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Paul W. Knoll … 7; title: Acknowledgments … 21; title: Introduction … 23; title: Note on the Translation … 31; title: ◦; title: _ 1. The Western Slavs … 37; title: _ 2. Initial Contact with the West … 47; title: _ 3. Emancipation from the Empire … 56; title: _ 4. The Pursuit of a Crown … 64; title: _ 5. The Great Calamity … 77; title: _ 6. The Reconstruction of the State … 85; title: _ 7. Aspirations toward Greatness … 91; title: _ 8. Rule of the Magnates … 99; title: _ 9. Access to the Baltic Sea … 105; title: _ 10. The Unstable New Order … 119; title: _ 11. Poland's Retreat from Its Western Policies … 129; title: _ 12. The Abolition of Krzywousty's Testament … 136; title: _ 13. The Political and Social Structure of Ducal Poland … 144; title: ◦; title: APPENDIXES:; title: A. Glossary of Place Names … 155; title: B. Slavic and Baltic Tribal Names … 158; title: C. Royal Genealogies … 159; title: D. Polish Historians … 162; title: ◦; title: Index … 165; title: ◦; title: MAPS:; title: _ 1. Limes Sorabicus … 39; title: _ 2. The State of Great Moravia … 41; title: _ 3. Principal West Slavic Tribes … 45; title: _ 4. Poland in the Reign of Bolesław Chrobry … 59; title: _ 5. The Seniorate System … 117