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Governance of a Distant Province in the Middle Ages : Case Study on Upper Lusatia / Krzysztof Fokt.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Warsaw ; Berlin : De Gruyter Open Poland, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110569315
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions of writing proper names -- 1 A distant province as a challenge: an extreme case study on Upper Lusatia -- 2 The borderland is born: short but turbulent history of the Milčane and the Besunzane -- 3 On the fringe of the Empire: Milsko (Upper Lusatia) in the web of political and military interactions (ca. 987/990-1156) -- 4 The structural framework of governance -- 5 Local infrastructure of governance: behind and besides the ramparts of ringforts -- 6 A remote province: a chance, a challenge or a burden? -- 7 Appendices -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Summaries -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Index
Summary: Governance of outlying provinces of the early and high medieval polities was never a favorite topic for either medieval chronicles or modern medievalists. The book "Governance of a Distant Province in the Middle Ages: Case Study on Upper Lusatia" by Krzysztof Fokt aims at exploring this problem in a form of an "extreme case study". The region chosen for closer analysis is Upper Lusatia, which in the tenth through twelfth century was the furthest pertinence of German kings in the Slavic world and for some time also a distant province of other polities: Poland and Bohemia.The study has been based upon both written and material (archeological and numismatic) evidence, and tries to write some passages of the history of the chosen region anew, without applying the stereotypes present in the three national historiographies engaged (the German, the Czech and the Polish).The main objectives of the book are to identify and comment on the means that were used to effectively govern a distant province and to recognize the factors which influenced the strategies applied by particular monarchs and territorial rulers. Substantial part of the work is also a detailed analysis of the infrastructure of governance, based upon written and material evidence from the eastern part Upper Lusatia (at present divided between Poland and Germany). Preparation and publication of this book was financially supported by the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. Publication of this book was subsidized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland through the National Program for Development of Humanities (NPRH) in the years 2016-2017.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions of writing proper names -- 1 A distant province as a challenge: an extreme case study on Upper Lusatia -- 2 The borderland is born: short but turbulent history of the Milčane and the Besunzane -- 3 On the fringe of the Empire: Milsko (Upper Lusatia) in the web of political and military interactions (ca. 987/990-1156) -- 4 The structural framework of governance -- 5 Local infrastructure of governance: behind and besides the ramparts of ringforts -- 6 A remote province: a chance, a challenge or a burden? -- 7 Appendices -- List of Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Summaries -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Index

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Governance of outlying provinces of the early and high medieval polities was never a favorite topic for either medieval chronicles or modern medievalists. The book "Governance of a Distant Province in the Middle Ages: Case Study on Upper Lusatia" by Krzysztof Fokt aims at exploring this problem in a form of an "extreme case study". The region chosen for closer analysis is Upper Lusatia, which in the tenth through twelfth century was the furthest pertinence of German kings in the Slavic world and for some time also a distant province of other polities: Poland and Bohemia.The study has been based upon both written and material (archeological and numismatic) evidence, and tries to write some passages of the history of the chosen region anew, without applying the stereotypes present in the three national historiographies engaged (the German, the Czech and the Polish).The main objectives of the book are to identify and comment on the means that were used to effectively govern a distant province and to recognize the factors which influenced the strategies applied by particular monarchs and territorial rulers. Substantial part of the work is also a detailed analysis of the infrastructure of governance, based upon written and material evidence from the eastern part Upper Lusatia (at present divided between Poland and Germany). Preparation and publication of this book was financially supported by the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. Publication of this book was subsidized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland through the National Program for Development of Humanities (NPRH) in the years 2016-2017.

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