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How did people live in medieval Vienna? What were the prevailing living conditions there? Who supplied the city? With a comprehensive look at social, architectural, cultural and political actors and events, this book sets new standards in the presentation of the city's history. The authors, proven experts in Viennese city history and authors of numerous publications about Vienna, present a on the State of the art work on the medieval history of Vienna. To do this, they use an innovative approach that has not been offered in this form before: the combination of a chronological presentation of history with explanatory analyzes of thematic fields of Vienna's urban history. The first part of the book contains a chronicle that, based on contemporary testimonies from documentary and narrative sources, outlines the period from the 9th century to the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529. The second part looks at eight thematic complexes of medieval Vienna and highlights, among other things, the infrastructure of the city, the residents and their realities of life, city life and the urban legal and administrative system. Readers get a detailed and lively insight into the medieval history of Vienna.

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Geb. 1950, / befasst sich mit Fragen der vergleichenden Städtegeschichte der mittelalterlichen Epoche sowie der Geschichte Wiens im Besonderen.

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