THE RISE OF THE POLISH MONARCHY. PIAST POLAND IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE 1320-1370

Chicago:The University of Chicago Press. (1972). xi+276pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good clean copy, inside and out with a very good dust jacket, sun-faded along spine strip and lightly worn along edges and folds. *"Ending more than a century of division into petty principalities, Poland's last two Piast rulers, Wladyslaw Lokietek and his son Casimir the Great, forged the splintered country into a strong, independent monarchy influential in all of east central Europe. With this volume Paul W. Knoll provides the field of Polish historical scholarship with the first English-language account of the reigns of these two powerful fourteenth-century monarchs."...dj