A Companion to Medieval Lübeck offers an introduction to recent scholarship on the vibrant and source-rich medieval history of Lübeck. Focusing mainly on the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, the volume positions the city of Lübeck within the broader history of Northern Germany and the Baltic Sea area. Thematic contributions highlight the archaeological and architectonical development of a northern town, religious developments, buildings and art in a Hanseatic city, and its social institutions. This volume is the first English-language overview of the history of Lübeck and a corrective to the traditional narratives of German historiography. The volume thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of medieval Lübeck--as well as a handy introduction to the riches of the Lübeck archives--to undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in related fields.
Contributors are Manfred Finke, Hartmut Freytag, Antjekathrin Graßmann, Angela Huang, Carsten Jahnke, Ursula Radis, Anja Rasche, Dirk Rieger, Harm von Seggern and Ulf Stammwitz.
Author(s): Carsten Jahnke
Series: Brill's Companions to European History
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 432
City: Leiden
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: “The Queen of the Baltic Coast”
Chapter 2 The Beginnings and Early Development of Lübeck’s Central Settlement
Chapter 3 Twelfth Century Timber Buildings in Lübeck’s Oldest Quarter
Chapter 4 The Earliest Use of Brickwork in Lübeck’s Secular Buildings: New Findings of the Excavations 2009–2014
Chapter 5 “Building History”: Lübeck in the Architectural History of the Middle Ages
Chapter 6 A Matter of Distance? The Bishops and the City of Lübeck in the Late Middle Ages
Chapter 7 Between Reclusion and Integration: Monasteries and Convents in Medieval Lübeck
Chapter 8 Lübeck: Early Economic Development and the Urban Hinterland
Chapter 9 Lübeck’s Trade in the Fifteenth Century
Chapter 10 Art, Belief, and Calculation: On the Churches and Christian Endowments of Medieval Lübeck
Chapter 11 Hermen Rode: The Painter of Medieval Lübeck and His Art Production
Chapter 12 The “Niederstadtbuch”: A Source for the History of Private Life of Lübeckers around 1500
Chapter 13 Lübeck’s Confraternities
Index
