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6609 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Gorecki, Piotr S

Professor of History

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History


Biography

Piotr Gorecki specializes in medieval European history. He was born in Krakow, 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 current research project is a book on law, power, and memory in the Henrykow region of thirteenth-century Poland.

Degrees

PhD History 1988

University of Chicago

JD Law 1983

Stanford Law School

AM History 1979

Stanford University

AB Economics 1977

University of Illinois

Awards

1987-88 ACLS Dissertation Fellowship,
1986-87 W.R. Harper Dissertation Year Fellowship
1986 American Council of Learned Societies, Medieval European History
1985-86 ACLS Dissertation Fellowship
1985 American Council of Learned Societies, Medieval European History


Research Area

medieval European history, with an emphasis on the relationship between society and legal, economic, and religious institutions in earlier medieval Europe.

Publications

He is the author of Economy, Society, and Lordship in Early Medieval Poland, 1100-1250, a monograph in the Europe Past and Present series for 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); an edited book with Warren C. Brown, Conflict in Medieval Europea (Ashgate, 2003); A Local Society in Transition: The Henryków Book and Related Documents, an annotated source translation with a monograph-lenth introduction, in the Studies and Texts series for the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto, 2007) and articles in the Slavic Review and the Oxford Slavonic Papers among others.