European expansion and the contested borderlands of late medieval Podillya, Ukraine /by Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy.

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Chronology; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1. The Lost Historical Region of Europe; Chapter 1. The Region with a New Name in Ruthenian Lands after 1340; Chapter 2. Territory without Borders: Is It possible?; Chapter 3. The Main Centres of Podillya in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century; Part 2. The Podolian Principality in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century; Chapter 4. Three Tatar Kingdoms in the Western Part of the Golden Horde in the Middle of the Fourteenth Century

Chapter 5. The Koriatovych Brothers at the Service of Casimir III the Great and Louis I of HungaryChapter 6. Spytek of Melsztyn: The New "Prince" from Kraków; Part 3. Between the Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Podillya in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century; Chapter 7. Choosing the Better Leader: Wladyslaw II Jagiello or Vytautas?; Chapter 8. The Opening of an Unknown Territory to Newcomers; Chapter 9. The Struggle for Podillya: Jagiello, Svitrigaila, the Shadow of Vytautas, and Pro-Polish Newcomers

Part 4. The Edge of Europe in the East: The Podolian Voivodeship after 1434Chapter 10. New Law, New Officials, and New People in the Region; Chapter 11. Patrons and Clients: The Formation of a Patronage System among the Podolian Nobility in the Fifteenth Century: The Buczacki Clientele Circle; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index

This book tells the history of Europe's eastern frontier, and particularly medieval Podillya, as a dynamic nexus of cultural, political, economic, and religious interaction.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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