A companion to medieval Lubeck / / edited by Carsten Jahnke.

• TeilnehmendeR: Jahnke, Carsten,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to European History 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) :; illustrations.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: “The Queen of the Baltic Coast” / Carsten Jahnke -- The Beginnings and Early Development of Lübeck’s Central Settlement / Ulf Stammwitz -- Twelfth Century Timber Buildings in Lübeck’s Oldest Quarter / Dirk Rieger -- The Earliest Use of Brickwork in Lübeck’s Secular Buildings: New Findings of the Excavations 2009–2014 / Ursula Radis -- “Building History”: Lübeck in the LübeckArchitectural HistoryArchitectural History of the Middle Ages / Manfred Finke -- A Matter of Distance? The Bishops and the City of Lübeck in the Late Middle Ages / Anja Voßhall -- Between Reclusion and Integration: Monasteries and Convents in Medieval Lübeck / Antjekathrin Graßmann -- Lübeck: Early Economic Development and the Urban Hinterland / Carsten Jahnke -- Lübeck’s Trade in the Fifteenth Century / Angela Ling Huang -- Art, Belief, and Calculation: On the Churches and Christian Endowments of Medieval Lübeck / Hildegard Vogeler and Hartmut Freytag -- Hermen RodeRode, HermenLübeck artist: The Painter of Medieval Lübeck and His Art Production / Anja Rasche -- The “LübeckNiederstadtbuchNiederstadtbuch”: A Source for the History of Private Life of Lübeckers around 1500 / Harm von Seggern -- Lübeck’s Confraternities / Carsten Jahnke -- Back Matter -- Index.