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A Companion to Medieval Lubeck offers an introduction to recent scholarship on the vibrant and source-rich medieval history of Lubeck. Focusing mainly on the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, the volume positions the city of Lubeck 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 Lubeck and a corrective to the traditional narratives of German historiography. The volume thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of medieval Lubeck-as well as a handy introduction to the riches of the Lubeck 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.

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This book must be wholeheartedly recommended to anyone working on medieval urban history. It fills an amazing gap in historical studies in English about the World Heritage Site the city of Lubeck. It provides an invaluable introduction to recent scholarship about many aspects of this leading Hanseatic city in the Middle Ages, each section written by an expert in that topic. [...] the authors of each of the different sections achieve a new, all embracing international overview of their different subjects. They examine the city in the wider historical context of the social and geographical area and achieve a remarkable depth of information about many of the crucial elements of its history, so making possible a precise comparison with major maritime cities elsewhere in Europe such as Venice and Marseille . Sybil Jack, in Parergon, 38.1 (2021).

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Carsten Jahnke, Ph.D. 1998, Habilitation 2004, is Associate Professor of Medieval History at The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. He has published monographs, editions and articles on Lubeck's history, the history of the Hanseatic League, and the history of Denmark.

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