The Medieval Colonization of Central Europe as a Problem of World History and Historiography 1

Piskorski, Jan M.

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The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages 2017

DOI: 10.4324/9781315239781-8

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The Medieval Colonization of Central Europe as a Problem of World History and Historiography 1

Jan M. Piskorski¹

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Eastward Migration in European History: The Interplay of Economic and Environmental Opportunities

Guzowski

2022

Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises

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During the preindustrial era one of the major migration waves headed eastward to Eastern Europe, where scores of migrants, in their pursuit of happiness, hoped to fulfil their dreams, have their own farm or set up a company, achieve a higher social status, and benefit from religious freedom and tolerance. The first wave of migration was connected with German colonization and the establishment of settlements following the German law. The alluringly large expanses of “pristine” land, together with tax privileges and the prospects of relative autonomy, attracted scores of bold, enterprising and hard-working settlers to relocate to the East. Most of them were peasants and townsfolk from the German states and the Netherlands, but there were also Jews escaping discrimination in Western Europe as well as West-European Protestants and Catholics attracted by religious tolerance in the East. Prospects of freedom and economic success encouraged them all to choose Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as their second homeland.

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Eastward Migration in European History: The Interplay of Economic and Environmental Opportunities

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2022

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