Natalia Nowakowska - Remembering the Jagiellonians

Edited by Natalia Nowakowska

First published 2019
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Names: Nowakowska, Natalia, 1977- editor.
Title: Remembering the Jagiellonians / edited by Natalia Nowakowska.
Description: London ; New York : Routledge, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018002058| ISBN 9781138562394 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138562400 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780203709788 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Jagellon dynastyInfluence. | PolandHistoryJagellons, 1386-1572. | Europe, EasternKings and rulersHistory. | NobilityEurope, EasternHistory. | Collective memoryEurope, Eastern.
Classification: LCC DJK46 .R46 2018 | DDC 943.8/023dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018002058

ISBN: 978-1-138-56239-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-56240-0 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-70978-8 (ebk)

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Producing Remembering the Jagiellonians has been an ambitious undertaking, involving multiple countries, languages, alphabets and scholars, and as such has drawn on the support of a wide number of institutions and people. The principal debt and acknowledgement is to the European Research Council (ERC). The research published in this book was entirely funded by the ERC under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/20072013) as ERC grant agreement number 335814, as part of the Starting Grant Project Jagiellonians: Dynasty, Memory and Identity in Central Europe (http://www.jagiellonians.com). The ERCs grants have had, and continue to have, a transformative effect on Humanities research in the UK and far beyond, enabling scholars to ask new questions in new ways. Comparative memory work on this scale would not have been possible without an ERC grant, and my own intellectual debt to the ERC will certainly long outlive this five-year project I thank the team who worked as Research Associates on the project for engaging with its research questions with precision, energy and rigour: Ilya Afanasyev, Dr Stanislava Kuzmov, Dr Giedr Micknait, Dr Susanna Niiranen and Dr Duan Zupka. Briony Truscott, our Project Administrator, has done so much to keep this show on the road in the past four years, for which I am sincerely grateful Thanks to the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, Somerville College, and the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), which have supported this project in multiple ways.

For this memory strand of the projects research, I also wish to warmly thank scholars who wrote background papers for us on Jagiellonian historiography in other ex-Jagiellonian countries: Tomislav Mati on Croatia, Jnos Incze on Romania, and Milo Ivanovi on Serbia. Even though there was not room to include all these papers in the final volume, I draw attention to their key findings in the Introduction Thanks to those who gave papers at the Jagiellonians project workshop on Regional Memory in Oxford in spring 2015: Joanna Wawrzyniak (Warsaw), Barak Kushner (Cambridge), Patrick Clibbens (Oxford), Leyla Neyzi (Sabanci University), Christine Allison (Exeter), Gai Jorayev (UCL), Flix Krawatzek (Oxford), Monika Bar (Leiden), Kamil intl (Prague), Andrea Purdekov (Oxford) and Natalya Vince (Portsmouth). Discussing problems of regional memory in this highly interdisciplinary group gave a boost to our own projects research. I would also like to thank very warmly Marcin Jarzbek and Gregor Fiendt for inviting me to speak on Jagiellonian and European memory at the Fifth Congress of Foreign Researchers of Polish History, in Krakow in 2017 their feedback, and questions from the panel audience, were most stimulating. Dr Johannes Wolf has provided excellent editorial assistance in preparing the final text of this volume. Artur Kula kindly drew the family tree. I would also like to thank Laura Pilsworth at Routledge for her interest in this research from a very early stage, and both Laura and Morwenna Scott for their supportive, friendly and highly professional input at every stage Thanks to the three anonymous peer reviewers, who gave valuable feedback on what to clarify, and further emphasise, in the volume. Louise Berglund gave me plenty of good and morale-boosting advice on how to edit a collected volume during her spell as an Academic Visitor in Oxford Finally, I would like to thank all the contributors for their good humour, hard work and patient replies to every query over several years. Hopefully, this book will underscore the new perspectives which can emerge when historians and scholars from right across Europe from Oxford to Lviv join forces to tell neglected stories.