This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in Vienna from c. 1100 to c. 1500. It provides a multidisciplinary view of the complexity of the vibrant city on the Danube. The volume is divided into four sections: Vienna, the city and urban design, politics, economy and sovereignty, social groups and communities, and spaces of knowledge, arts, and performance. An international team of eighteen scholars examines issues ranging from the city’s urban environment and art history, to economic and social concerns, using a range of sources and reflecting the wide array of possible approaches to the study of medieval Vienna today.
Author(s): Susana Zapke, Elisabeth Gruber (eds.)
Series: Brill's Companions to European History, 25
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 636
City: Leiden
Preface and Acknowledgements xiii
List of Figures xvi
Notes on the Contributors xxi
1. Introduction: Medieval Vienna in Context / Susana Zapke and Elisabeth Gruber 1
Part 1. Vienna: The City and Urban Design
2. The Foundation of Our Knowledge—Sources and Records / Ferdinand Opll 25
3. Medieval Vienna and its Political Configuration / Peter Csendes 48
4. Urban Design: Sacral Buildings and Power Symbols / Barbara Schedl 79
5. The Property Market of Late Medieval Vienna: Institutional Framework and Social Practice / Thomas Ertl and Thomas Haffner 115
6. The Heritage of Maps and City Views / Ferdinand Opll 135
Part 2. Politics, Economy, and Sovereignty
7. Governance, Privileges, and Rights / Peter Csendes 163
8. Organizing a Community: Council, Urban Elite, and Economy in Medieval Vienna / Elisabeth Gruber 187
9. The Urban Waterscape in Medieval Vienna / Heike Krause, Paul Mitchell, and Christoph Sonnlechner 222
Part 3. Social Groups and Communities
10. Ways of Belonging to Medieval Vienna / Christina Lutter 267
11. A Minority in Urban Space: The Jewish Community / Martha Keil 312
12. Alma Mater Rudolphina Vindobonensis. Universitas Doctorum, Magistrorum et Scholarium / Kurt Mühlberger 360
13. Scholarly Communities: Origins, Accommodation, Conflicts / Ulrike Denk 392
14. Reconstructing Everyday Life in Medieval Vienna / Ferdinand Opll 420
Part 4. Spaces of Knowledge, Arts, and Performance
15. Greek Studies at the University of Vienna / Christian Gastgeber 445
16. Goldsmiths in Medieval Vienna (1150–1527): Their Trade and Their Art / Franz Kirchweger 469
17. Urban Art, Spaces, and Rituals / Zoë Opačić 497
18. Performative Urban Spaces in Medieval Vienna / Susana Zapke 524
19. The Rise of Polyphonic Music in Vienna / Peter Wright 560
Appendix 593
Selected Bibliography 595
Index of Geographic Names 597
Index of Personal Names 605
