Amesbury Spring Lecture: Piotr Gorecki (UC Riverside): “‘But Perhaps You Germans Don't Fully Understand…’: Law and Identity in Medieval Poland”

Join us Thursday, April 3, 2025, 5:00 pm- Herter 301. Reception to follow.

Identity and law are subjects of long-standing interest among historians of medieval
Europe. The German and Polish legal systems have been studied on its own terms; this talk brings them together. 

Professor Gorecki’s research focuses on the economic, social, and legal history of medieval Poland. His many publications include: Economy, Society, and Lordship in Early Medieval Poland, a book in the European Past and Present series for Holmes and Meier (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1992); Parishes, Tithes and Society in Earlier Medieval Poland ca.1100-1250, a Transaction of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1993); and A Local Society in Transition: The Henryków Book and Related Documents, an annotated source translation with monograph-length introduction (Studies and Texts 155, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2007). His current research project is a book of law, power, and memory in the Henryków region of thirteenth-century Poland.