Whilst most historical investigations of ethnic and religious minorities concentrate on a single town or particular group, this volume offers a much broader geographical and chronological view. Looking at towns across western, and particularly, eastern Europe from the late antique period to the fifteenth century, these papers illustrate the changing nature of questions of identity, perception, legal status and relations between groups, together with the ways in which these elements were affected by the external political regimes and ideologies to which towns were inevitably subjected.
Author(s): Derek Keene; Balázs Nagy; Katalin Szende
Series: Historical Urban Studies Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 263
City: London
Cover
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Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
General Editor’s Preface
Preface
1 Introduction: Segregation, Zoning and Assimilation in Medieval Towns
2 Various Ethnic and Religious Groups in Medieval German Towns? Some Evidence and Reflections
3 Russians in Livonian Towns in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
4 ‘... propter disparitatem linguae et religionis pares ipsis non esse ...’ ‘Minority’ Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Lviv
5 Foreign Ethnic Groups in the Towns of Southern Hungary in the Middle Ages
6 Buda: The Multi-ethnic Capital of Medieval Hungary
7 Late Medieval Ethnic Structures in the Inland Towns of Present-day Slovenia
8 Gradation of Differences: Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Medieval Dubrovnik
9 Minorities and Foreigners in Bulgarian Medieval Towns in the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries: Literary and Archaeological Fragments
10 Nobiles, Cives et Popolari: Four Towns under the Rule of Carlo I Tocco (c.1375–1429)
11 The Towns of Medieval Hungary in the Reports of Contemporary Travellers
12 Crown, Gown and Town: Zones of Royal, Ecclesiastical and Civic Interaction in Medieval Buda and Visegrád
13 Integration through Language: The Multilingual Character of Late Medieval Hungarian Towns
14 The Visual Image of the ‘Other’ in Late Medieval Urban Space: Patterns and Constructions
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