Author: Oskar HALECKI
Title: The last years of Swidrygiello and the Volhynian affair under Casimir Jagiellon.
- Place of issue: Kraków
- Year of publication: 1915
- Publisher: Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Number of pages: VI, [2], 315
- Illustrations, maps: map after the text
- Size: 24 cm
- Binding: soft
- Condition: slight rubbing of binding, ex-libris private stamp "K. Tymieniecki"
- ISBN: ---
Description:
Contents include:
- Volhynia after the catastrophe of 1440,
- attempt to consolidate Lithuanian rule in Volhynia at the Vilna congress in January 1442,
- Poland's efforts to obtain Lutsk,
- The kniazi, their origin and distribution,
- origin and position of the nobility of Volhynia,
- conventions in Lutsk, Vilna and Opatów in late 1451 and early 1452,
- the conspiracy of the Volyn lords against Lithuania,
- the resumption of Lithuanian claims to western Podolia in connection with the Thirteen Years' War
Also includes an index.
Kazimierz Tymieniecki (1887-1968) - Polish historian, medievalist. He was one of the founding professors of the University of Poznan (today's UAM) in 1919. For decades he shaped the local scientific community, although during the communist period he faced harassment from the authorities (including blocking the careers of his students). He specialized in the economic and social history of the Middle Ages. He was editor of the prestigious "Rocznik Historyczny" and a full member of the PAU and titular member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
