Publisher's description:
Paul Milliman's The Slippery Memory of Men is the first monograph on the role played by the early fourteenth-century trials between Poland and the Teutonic Knights in the restoration of the Polish kingdom. It is also only the second English-language monograph on this important transitional period in Polish history and the first in over 40 years. Milliman first analyzes the thirteenth-century borderland society of the south Baltic littoral, especially in Pomerania, and then uses the lengthy testimonies of over 150 witnesses from the fourteenth-century trials to examine the role of the memory of this borderland in informing the witnesses' views of where the kingdom of Poland was as well as who should be included within its boundaries.

Table of contents:
VII Acknowledgments
XI List of Abbreviations
XIII Maps
1 Introduction
23 1. A iugo principum Polonie, a iugo Theutonicorum: Pomerania and the South Baltic Frontier of Latin Christendom in the Early Thirteenth Century
65 2. Dealing with the Past and Planning for the Future: Contested Memories, Conflicted Loyalties, and the Partition
and Donation of Pomerania in the Late Thirteenth Century
94 3. The Restorations of the Kingdom of Poland and the Foundation of the Teutonic Ordensstaat at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century
139 4. Immortalis Discordia: Eternal Enmity, Massacre, and Memorialization in the German-Polish Borderlands
196 5. Pomerania between Poland and Prussia: Lordship, Ethnicity, Territoriality, and Memory
255 Conclusion
263 Appendix 1. The Procurator-General of the Teutonic Knights Pleads His Case to the Papal Curia Concerning the Gdańsk Massacre, 1310
267 Appendix 2. The Claims Submitted by the Polish Procurators in 1320
269 Appendix 3. The Claims Submitted by the Royal Procurator in 1339
279 Bibliography
313 Index.