Historian Every Saturday: V. Myhailovsky. The Ukrainian Lands from the Second Half of the 14th to the First Half of the 16th Century (15.02.2025)

A lecture by historian Vitaliy Myhailovsky (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on the Ukrainian lands of the Lithuanian-Polish era (the second half of the 14th to the first half of the 16th century). Key points: after Rus’, the Ukrainian lands became part not of Muscovy but of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; the Grand Duchy and Muscovy competed for the Ruthenian heritage; European law (the Wiślica Statute, Magdeburg rights) and legal pluralism (Kamianets-Podilskyi had three jurisdictions). A source for the article on the Lithuanian-Polish era between Rus’ and the Cossacks.