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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review"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 Lübeck. 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). "Der Band erfüllt, um das Wesentliche vorwegzunehmen, den Anspruch, den die Reihe setzt, und dies nicht nur, weil er angesichts rarer angelsächsischer Studien über das mittelalterliche Lübeck ein langjähriges Desiderat schließt. Mit ihm liegt tatsächlich ein nahezu mustergültiger, durchweg von Fachexperten erstellter Zugang zu den verschiedenen Themenbereichen vor." Felskau in ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR LÜBECKISCHE GESCHICHTE, Band 100 (2020/2021).
