‘The Slippery Memory of Men’

Paul Milliman, Ph.D. (2007), Cornell University, is an assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Arizona.

"...Because Pomerania would be at the center of many disputes between Germans and Poles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, modern nationalists on both sides have frequently misrepresented the region’s medieval history. Milliman attempts to move beyond these problematic historiographical traditions by returning to the medieval sources. In the process, he provides a far more detailed and nuanced narrative of Pomerania’s medieval history than has ever appeared before in English, and he also calls attention to a variety of underutilized fourteenth-century sources for the study of memory and identity formation in this pivotal frontier region."Jonathan R. Lyon, University of Chicago, in The American Historical Review, Vol. 119, no 2, April 2014

• Acknowledgments ... viiList of Abbreviations ... xiMaps ... xiiiIntroduction ... 11. A iugo principum Polonie, a iugo Theutonicorum:Pomerania and the South Baltic Frontier of Latin Christendom in the Early Thirteenth Century ... 232. Dealing with the Past and Planning for the Future: Contested Memories, Conflicted Loyalties, and the Partitionand Donation of Pomerania in the Late Thirteenth Century ... 653. The Restorations of the Kingdom of Poland and the Foundation of the Teutonic Ordensstaat at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century ... 944. Immortalis Discordia: Eternal Enmity, Massacre, and Memorialization in the German-Polish Borderlands ... 1395. Pomerania between Poland and Prussia: Lordship, Ethnicity, Territoriality, and Memory ... 196Conclusion ... 255Appendix 1. The Procurator-General of the Teutonic Knights Pleads His Case to the Papal Curia Concerning the Gdańsk Massacre, 1310 ... 263Appendix 2. The Claims Submitted by the Polish Procurators in 1320 ... 267Appendix 3. The Claims Submitted by the Royal Procurator in 1339 ... 269Bibliography ... 279Index ... 313