Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO)
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Jędrzej Kitowicz: Customs and Culture in Poland under the Last Saxon King. The Major Texts of Opis obyczajów za panowania Augusta III (Description of Customs during the Reign of August III) by Jędrzej Kitowicz, 1728–1804. Übers. und hrsg. von Oscar E. Swan.
No full textAljaksandr Smaljančuk: Raman Skirmunt (1868–1939). Žyccjapis hramadzjanina Kraju [Raman Skirmunt (1868–1939). Biografie eines Bürgers des Landes/kraj].
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Kamieniec im späten Mittelalter – Entwicklungslinien sozialer Ordnung in einer Migrationsgesellschaft
No full textKamieniec in the Late Middle Ages—Lines of Development of Social Order in a Migrant Society: The article traces the early stages in the development of self-government structures in Kamieniec Podolski, where the civic magistrate co-existed with the Armenian and Ruthenian magistrates. It analyzes the earliest written sources for the three communities based on published as well as archival documents between the late fourteenth century and the second half of the fifteenth century. The double function of the city as a border fortress and an important hub for long-distance trade encouraged the development of a multiethnic environment. The article exa-mines the development of self-government as a political process in a multipolar field of actors rather than taking a traditionally hierarchical approach, focusing on the civic community and its relationship with the king and the “minorities.” It questions traditional approaches to urban history in which non-civic populations appear a priori as outsiders, and it opens the perspective of an inclusive history of pre-modern multiethnic cities. The article examines the development of self-government as a form of participation beyond involvement in the civic community. The core of the article is based on the different forms of agency within the various groups as well as the dissimilar social roles assigned to them by the ruler, as these led to the development of different strategies of self-positioning within the urban framework
Refugees in the Yugoslav Space: An Overview of the Historiography
No full textThe article challenges the common view of the Yugoslav space as an area producing rather than receiving refugees by providing an overview of the main historiographic works dealing with refugees within and into the territories of the former Yugoslavia. It identifies two main conceptual foci that revolve around the understanding of refugees as either “national” or “international.” In the case of “national refugees,” scholars have frequently stressed the existence of supposedly preexisting ethnic ties between the refugees and the territories where they found refuge, but the scholarship also explores the entanglement of diverse population movements, both compulsory and voluntary, in the multinational areas that experienced a process of unmixing of peoples since the second half of the nineteenth century. On the contrary, historiography on “international refugees” displays a more prominent interest in the management of refugees by both state and non-state actors, including their spatial distribution. Furthermore, these scholars have addressed the relationship between the refugee flows from abroad and the country’s geopolitical constellation, demonstrating how foreign policy shapes the reception of refugees, but also how refugee influx reframes international allegiances. While the so called “Balkan route” has put the region in the international spotlight as an important avenue of transit, an overview of historical thinking related to refugees into and within the former Yugoslavia provides tools to reflect upon the way people on the move have been and are conceptualized.The article challenges the common view of the Yugoslav space as an area producing rather than receiving refugees by providing an overview of the main historiographic works dealing with refugees within and into the territories of the former Yugoslavia. It identifies two main conceptual foci that revolve around the understanding of refugees as either “national” or “international.” In the case of “national refugees,” scholars have frequently stressed the existence of supposedly preexisting ethnic ties between the refugees and the territories where they found refuge, but the scholarship also explores the entanglement of diverse population movements, both compulsory and voluntary, in the multinational areas that experienced a process of unmixing of peoples since the second half of the nineteenth century. On the contrary, historiography on “international refugees” displays a more prominent interest in the management of refugees by both state and non-state actors, including their spatial distribution. Furthermore, these scholars have addressed the relationship between the refugee flows from abroad and the country’s geopolitical constellation, demonstrating how foreign policy shapes the reception of refugees, but also how refugee influx reframes international allegiances. While the so called “Balkan route” has put the region in the international spotlight as an important avenue of transit, an overview of historical thinking related to refugees into and within the former Yugoslavia provides tools to reflect upon the way people on the move have been and are conceptualized
Literatur und Kultur zwischen West und Ost. Imagination, Kommunikation und Wahrnehmung in regionalen Kulturräumen. Festschrift für Paul Martin Langner zum 65. Geburtstag. Hrsg. von Artur Dariusz Kubacki und Isabel Röskau-Rydel
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Die Urkunden des Deutschordens-Zentralarchivs in Wien. Regesten. Nach dem Manuskript von Marian Tumler. Hrsg. Udo Arnold. Teilband I: 1122 – Januar 1313 (Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens, Bd. 60/I = Veröffentlichungen der Internationalen Historischen Kommission zur Erforschung des Deutschen Ordens, Bd. 11/I.) N. G. Elwert. / Bd. 1-5
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