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Warschau/Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017

1 online resource (310 pages)

ISBN 9783110569315 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9783110569285

Print version: Fokt, Krzysztof Governance of a Distant Province in the Middle Ages Warschau/Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2017 ISBN 9783110569285

Intro -- 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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Preface XI // Acknowledgments XII // Conventions of writing proper names XIII // 1 A distant province as a challenge: an extreme case study // on Upper Lusatia 1 // 1.1 “Technology” of governance of and in the provinces in the Early and High // Middle Ages: basic ideas, notions and methods of research 2 // 1.2 Conceptual and narrative framework of the study: politics organization - infrastructure 7 // 1.3 Upper Lusatia as a suitable sample for an extreme case study // of an outlying province 10 // 1.4 Remarks on the sources of the study and the present state of research-13 // 2 The borderland is born: short but turbulent history of the Milcane // and the Besunzane 20 // 2.1 Upper Lusatia between the “tribe-full” fringe and “tribe-less” interior // of the Western Slavic area 21 // 2.2 Introducing the “bit players” of history: the Milcane and // the Besunzane 25 // 2.2.1 The localization and territorial scope of the Besunzane-26 // 2.2.2 The Besunzane as an alleged “sub-tribe” of Milcane 28 // 2.3 The control grows tighter: semi-independence, conquest, inclusion 30 // 2.3.1 The Milcane as a part of the Saxon political system and the Eurasian // network of long-distance trade--31 // 2.3.2 The Besunzane and their possible position in the Saxon-Bohemian // struggle 35 // 2.3.3 The conquest of the Besunzane by the Milcane: depopulation or inclusion? 39 // 2.3.4 The end of a succesful ethnarchy: incorporation of Milsko,

into the March // of Meissen 41 // 2.4 Upper Lusatia in the tenth century: boundary, but not a margin-45 // 3 On the fringe of the Empire: Milsko (Upper Lusatia) in the web of political // and military interactions (ca. 987/990-1156) 47 // 3.1 The bone of contention: between the Empire and the Piasts (ca. 1002-1031) 47 // The fall of urbs magno Basine in 1015-50 // Under the rule of the margraves (1031-1081) 53 // In the realm of the last Ekkehardines (1031-1046)-54 // Under the high-born rebels (1046-1081) 58 // Under the homines novi (1081-1126) 66 // Upper Lusatia in the hands of loyal supporters of Henry IV-67 // Rearrangements under Henry V 69 // Together or apart? The question of division of Milsko into the centralwestern and eastern parts before 1126-71 // Two lands of one: 1126-1156 76 // Görlitz as Sobesláv ls outpost north of the mountains after 1126-76 // Upper Lusatia re-united: under the Premyslids and Conrad of Wettin 81 // From counts to homines novi and back: preliminary results of Chapter 3 84 // The structural framework of governance 87 // Marchia Milzania: the status of Milsko in the structure of the Ottonian and early Salian Empire 87 // The status of Milsko in the years 1046-1081: from a separate marca // to a distant

pertinence of other comitatus-91 // The question of the legal status of Milsko 1081-1126-93 // Various parties, diverging strategies (1126-1156)-101 // Sobeslav ls advance under Lothair III: from pagus Isgorelik to the cura Sirbiae--102 // The short “return of the king” under the two first Staufers on the German throne 111 // From counties to benefices, back and forth: preliminary results of Chapter 4 116 // Local infrastructure of governance: behind and besides the ramparts of ringforts 118 // The two civitates of the Besunzane--118 // Possible vestiges of the infrastructure of governance of the Milcane in the Eastern Upper Lusatia 124 // Were there any burgwards at all in Eastern Upper Lusatia? Critical remarks on the approaches of Huth and Billig--129 // Attempting to identify the Ottonic burgwards--136 // The Southeast: Bratków vs. Niedów 137 // The Northwest: the Landeskrone 148 // The southern fringe of the region: another forgotten district?-154 // 5.5 Infrastructure of governance of Milsko under Piast rule (1002-1004, 1007-1031) and the question of origin of the “ringfort organization” in the Piast realm 154 // 5.6 Local infrastructure of governance in Eastern Upper Lusatia // 1031-1126 157 // 5.7 Transformations of local infrastructure in the tridecennium // 1126-1156 170 // 5.8 From ringfort districts to royal and episcopal domains: the development // of the local infrastructure of governance--172 // 6 A remote province: a chance, a

challenge or a burden? 174 // 6.1 Dynamics of royal and territorial strategies of governance applied // in Upper Lusatia 174 // 6.1.1 Strategies of the monarchs 175 // 6.1.2 Strategies of the territorial rulers-179 // 6.1.3 The “Bohemian gambit” of Henry IV and its legacy 182 // 6.2 The infrastructure of governance and its developments 184 // 6.3 Concluding remarks and epilogue 186 // 7 Appendices 190 // 7.1 Catalogues of Upper Lusatian silver finds from the ninth/tenth mid-twelfth centuries 190 // 7.2 Catalogue of early medieval ringforts and mound cemeteries in Eastern // Upper Lusatia 197 // 7.3 The extension of the Jauernick proto-parish reflected in the tithe // registers of the 16th century (after J. Huth and W. Haupt)-211 // 7.4 A summary of rents in pepper and other spices from places located // in Eastern Upper Lusatia 212 // List of Abbreviations 219 // Bibliography 220 // Summaries 246 // List of Tables--283 // List of Figures-284 // Index 286

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