This book explores the full range of social, economic, religious and cultural contacts between England and the German city of Cologne during the central Middle Ages, c.1000 to c.1300.
A wealth of original archive material reveals an extensive network of English and German emigrants who were surprisingly successful in achieving assimilation into their new homeland. From beguines to English sterling, pilgrims to emigrants, crusaders and merchants to teachers, there existed a complex world of Anglo-German associations. The book therefore maintains the thesis that the Anglo-German nexus should be given a higher profile in current historiography on the Middle Ages, and that the book should stand as a contribution towards the reconfiguration of medieval history away from the boundaries created by modern political and intellectual categories. It will also encourage historians to reconsider their basic assumptions about what constituted 'medieval Europe'.
Author(s): Joseph P. Huffman
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Fourth Series, 39
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: XVIII+276
Preface page ix
List of abbreviations xii
The wards of medieval London xv
The parishes and districts of medieval Cologne xvi
Anglo-Cologne family genealogies xvii
Introduction 1
Part I. The historical background: Anglo-German commercial foundations and the city of Cologne
1. The London guildhall and Cologne's rise to dominance in the eleventh and twelfth centuries 9
2. The rise of the Hansa towns and the decline of Cologne's dominance in the thirteenth century 23
3. Anglo-German currency exchange: Cologne and English sterling 41
Appendix: 'Schreinsbücher' manuscript entries 57
Part II. Anglo-Cologne family, property, and inheritance ties
4. The formation of individual and family identity in medieval Cologne: property and surnames 67
5. 'Anglicus in Colonia': the social, economic, and legal status of the English in Cologne during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries 82
6. Cologne families with English connections: the Zudendorps 128
7. Cologners in England 162
Part III. Anglo-German religious and cultural life
8. Confraternities, expatriate monks, pious legends, and pilgrims 199
9. Clerics, canon law, crusaders, and culture 217
Conclusion: A reappraisal of the Anglo-German nexus 240
Appendix: The archbishops of Cologne 243
Select bibliography 244
Index 269
