KRZYSZTOF KWIATKOWSKI (Toruń) New ReseaRch iNto the Battle OF GRunWAld/TAnnenbeRG/ŽAlGIRIS. attempt at aN oveRview I. Introduction Over three years have elapsed since the six-hundredth anniversary of the battle of Grunwald/Tannenberg/Žalgiris 1 , celebrated with great fanfare (especially in Po- land), which allows us to take a preliminary look at publications on the July bat- tle of 1410. Certainly, this text is neither the irst 2 nor the last that attempts to make an overview of the literature on the phenomenon of Grunwald. At present, so-called “Grunwald historiography” itself is worth subjecting to analysis, for the research, social, political and cultural context of various subjects related to the battle make it possible for us to regard Grunwald studies as a par excellence cul- 1 I deliberately use in the title, as in my other publications, the triple name of the battle (Grunwald/Tannenberg/Žalgiris), emphasising that the memory of this battle has been kept alive in three linguistic and cultural areas: Polish, German and lithuanian. 2 Cf. K. Ożóg, ‘O naukowym plonie 600. rocznicy bitwy pod Grunwaldem w historiograii,’ Kwartalnik Historyczny 112 (2013), no. 1, pp. 115–138; S. Jóźwiak, ‘Review of Research on the battle of Grunwald (15 th July 1410) in Historical Studies over the Past Half-Century,’ Quaes- tiones Medii Aevi Novae 18 (2013), pp. 281–302. It seems right to refer to some earlier overviews of the state of research on the 1409–1411 conlict, cf.: S. Jóźwiak, ‘Rozwój badań nad wielką wojną polsko-litewsko-krzyżacką (1409–1411) w historiograii ostatniego półwiecza,’ Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie 2009, no. 2 (264), pp. 209–223; S. Jóźwiak, K. Kwiatkowski, S. Szweda, S. Szybkowski, ‘Wstęp,’ in: iidem, Wojna Polski i Litwy z zakonem krzyżackim w latach 1409–1411, Malbork, 2010, pp. 11–34, here: pp. 18–33. An overview of the most recent lithuanian publica- tions (to 2011) is given by T. baranauskas, ‘bitwa pod Grunwaldem w pracach historyków litewskich,’ Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis (henceforth: AuPC) 99, Series: Studia Historica XI, 2011 (Bitwa pod Grunwaldem w historii i tradycji Polski i Litwy, ed. J. Rajman), pp. 75–91, here: pp. 87–90 (an abridged lithuanian version of the text: idem, ‘Žalgirio mūšis lietuvos istorikų darbuose,’ Istorija 81 [2011], no. 1, pp. 23–35); but a belaru- sian (including Russian-language publications) perspective on Grunwald research before 2010 is offered by Р.Б. Гагуа, ‘Грюнвальдская битва в отечественной и зарубежной историографии,’ Беларуская Думка: штомесячны навукова-тэарэтычны і грамадска-публітыстычны часопіс 2010, no. 8, pp. 58–67; of similar overview character is the last part of the article by S. ekdahl, ‘Бітва пад Танэнбергам і яе эначэнне ў гісторыі ордэнскай дэяржаы,’ Беларускі Гістарычны Агляд/Belarusian Historical Review 17 (2010), nos. 1–2 (32–33), pp. 3–41, here: pp. 31–40. histoRical aNNals lXXIX 2013