From Dnipro to Danube: War, Diplomacy and Relations

From Dnipro to Danube: War, Diplomacy and

Political Relations in Early Modern Eastern Europe

The Balkan History Association is preparing a volume on relations between the Romanian principalities (Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania) and the Ukrainian lands in the early modern era. During this period political transformations and complex processes of social change took place, and the foundations of modern states and identities were laid. In the national historiographies of these countries, such changes are usually seen as evolutionary processes and are thus considered to be integral to the histories of modern nations. These processes also influenced in various ways the evolution of political, cultural and social relations between the Romanian principalities and the Cossack Hetmanate. However, the overarching political framework was determined by the main regional actors: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian Habsburgs, the Ottoman Empire, and Muscovy.

The volume will focus on: internal political struggles; elites and their relationships to regional actors; political collaboration due to shared interests; religious contacts; the activities of certain social stratification representing the “nations” or their own categorization; systems of social identity; and the like. Researchers are invited to submit book chapters on the following topics: representatives of the Cossacks and the Haydamak movement in early modern Ukraine; Cossacks on the ruler’s throne of Moldavia; the lands between Dniester and the Southern Bug under the Moldavian ruler Gheorghe Duca in the second half of the 17th century; the roles of high-ranking clergy of Romanian origin in Kyivan Orthodoxy; the Romanian principalities as models for the development of Ukrainian statehood; alliances with Transylvania; Moldavia as a refuge for political emigration from the Cossackdom; contacts with the Balkans, Cossack influence beyond the limits of the Hetmanate; the contributions of  well-known figures to the regional history: Dmytro Vyshnevetsky, Ivan Pidkova (Ioan Nicoară Potcoavă), Hryhory Loboda (Grigore Lobodă), Petro Mohyla (Petru Movilă), Tymish Khmelnitsky, Gheorghe Duca, Ivan Mazepa, Pylyp Orlik, Danylo Apostol (Dănilă Apostol), Captain Verlan etc.

Submission procedure

The volume will be published by Peter Lang (in the series “South-East European History”). Original manuscripts should be prepared following the Peter Lang editorial guide available on its website, especially “Style Guidelines – British English” and “Submission Guidelines“. Manuscripts must not have already been published, submitted for publication, or made available on the internet elsewhere. Interdisciplinary work is particularly welcome.

Please submit your proposal, including the title of your manuscript, an abstract (up to 300 words), and an author’s biography (up to 100 words) to each of the editors. The abstract should include the research question and the purpose, approach, main ideas, and results of the research. No figures, tables, footnotes, or endnotes should be included in the abstract. Articles should not exceed 8,000 words in length, including footnotes and references (reference list or bibliography).

Deadlines

November 21, 2022: Submission of proposals to editors

December 1, 2022: Notification of accepted proposals

February 1, 2023: Receipt of final papers for peer-review

March 31, 2023: Revised chapters re-submitted to editors

Editors

Lyudmila Novikova (Odesa University), [email protected]

Mihai-Bogdan Atanasiu (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi), [email protected]

Marin Gherman (University of Suceava), [email protected]

Robert Bideleux (Honorary Reader in Politics and International Relations at Swansea University), [email protected]

Alicja Nowak (Department of Polish-Ukrainian Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków), [email protected]