Networking in Late Medieval Central Europe

Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region.

Autorentext

Beata Moejko (University of Gdask) is Professor of History specializing in medieval history and the auxiliary sciences of history; the author of other 150 papers, articles, and monographs, including Peter von Danzig, The story of Great Caravel 14621475 (Brill 2020); member of the Bureau of Committee on Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (20202023); and member of the Committee of Gdask Encyklopedia (Gedanopedia).

Anna Paulina Orowska studied history and history of arts at University in Warsaw and Christian-Albrecht-University in Kiel. In Kiel, she worked on her PhD on an account book from Gdask written in the first half of fifteenth century. After defending her thesis in 2015, she went to the Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Now she works at the Institute for Comparative Urban History in Münster, Germany, where she develops the Historical Town Atlasses based on the said ontology.

Leslie Carr-Riegel received her doctorate in Medieval Studies from the Central European University in 2021. She has historically focused on waste management, medieval trade relations between Poland and Italy, and legal history, but is mostly dedicated to teaching the next generation of scholars. She has worked as a fellow with the Medici Archive Project, the Princeton Global History Project, and the Käte Hamburger Kolleg at the University of Münster.

Inhalt

Introduction / Gaudeamus igitur in Bononia dum sumus: a network of Polish students in Italy in the late Middle Ages / A Venetian merchant in Poland: the life and times of Pietro Bicherano / How to Develop a Trade Network as a Newcomer without Getting Married? Examples from the Account Book of Danzig Merchant Johan Pyre / Marriage networks and building structures of power within the urban communities between the Drava River and the Adriatic Sea: a comparative approach / Inclusion and exclusion. Intercultural relationships in Old Warsaw in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in light of the municipal registers / The diplomacy of Sigismund of Luxembourg in the dispute between the Teutonic Knights and Poland-Lithuania / The coat of arms of Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, in the choir of Barcelona Cathedral. The role and significance of the Jagiellonian dynasty in the nineteenth assembly of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1519 / Rome, Rostock and a remote region: Livonian bishops. / 9.What links the Last Judgment triptych by Hans Memling with Florence, Rome, Nuremberg, Breisach and Cracow? / Across boundaries. Artistic exchange (painting, sculpture) in the area between Gdask (Danzig) and Königsberg in the late Middle Ages / Distant enemies, yet allies in art? Remarks on supposed artistic relations between fourteenth-century Prussia and the Islamic and Byzantine cultures in the Middle East / Late medieval networks of faith: the West and the East. Fortified urbanity and religion in fifteenth-century illuminations produced in France