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- Fields of Interest: medieval European history, with an
emphasis on the early and central Middle Ages, Poland and
East-Central Europe, law and society, and the relationship
between communities and judicial institutions
Piotr Górecki received his B.A.
in economics (1977) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
M.A. in history (1979) and J.D. in law (1983) from Stanford
University, and his Ph.D. in history (1988) from the University
of Chicago. He specializes in medieval European history.
He was born in Kraków, Poland.
He moved with his parents to the United States (Palo Alto, California,
then Urbana, Illinois) when a teenager. He completed his doctoral
studies in 1988 and was a Visiting Assistant Professor of History
at the University of Illinois at Chicago before accepting his
current position at UCR.
His research focuses on
the economic and social history of medieval Poland. He
is the author of Economy, Society, and Lordship in
Medieval Poland, 1100–1250, a monograph in the Europe
Past and Present series with Holmes & Meier (New York,
1992); Parishes, Tithes
and Society in Earlier Medieval Poland, c. 1100–1250,
a Transaction of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia,
1993); A Local Society in Transition: The Henryków
Book and Related Documents, an annotated source translation
forthcoming with Cistercian Publications (Kalamazoo, 2001),
and of articles in Slavic Review, Oxford Slavonic Papers,
Law and History Review, Cîteaux, Journal of Medieval History,
and several chapters in specialized books. His current
research projects are a book on law, power, and memory
in the Henryków region of thirteenth-century Poland, and
a coedited book, Conflict
in Medieval Europe, a volume of revised proceedings
from a national conference on the Huntington Library in
April 2001, forthcoming with Ashgate Publishing Ltd (Aldershot,
2002 or 2003).
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