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Studies on Late Medieval Gdańsk
About this book
Studies on Late Medieval Gda?sk discusses Gda?sk (Danzig), a city whose governing authorities changed in the 15th century, with Polish kings replacing the Teutonic Knights. Located on the Baltic Sea, the town was home to around twenty to thirty thousand people, many of whom made their living working at sea. The world of wealthy patricians intertwined with that of ordinary residents of Gda?sk. Sometimes conflicts and rivalries arose with close neighbours from Royal Prussia or distant ones from Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Devoted to various aspects of maritime life – including navigation, shipbuilding, disasters, and pirate attacks – the chapters in this book discuss issues such as the import of multiple goods and luxury items. They also analyze the fates of individual Gda?sk skippers sailing to England, Spain, and even Iceland. Other protagonists are nobles, mayors and magistrates, and they are also women who tried to influence the reality around them despite legal restrictions.
This book will appeal to students and scholars alike interested in the social and maritime history of Gda?sk.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: Variorum Collected Studies Series
- 1 A glimpse into the history of the Gdańsk fleet in the 15th century
- 2 Late medieval sea voyages of Gdańsk citizens to Western Europe: A preliminary survey of the evidence
- 3 The maritime misadventures of Gdańsk shipmaster Johann Tolk in the first half of the 15th century. An unlucky skipper or the fate of many?
- 4 Danzigers: skipper Erik Keding and merchant Peter Struwe and their dispute with the English
- 5 List of losses suffered by shipmaster Bernard Rok in 1469
- 6 Gdańsk skipper Heinrich Schroeder and the Spanish pirates. A maritime episode of the late 15th-century
- 7 Late medieval pilgrimages: A survey of the sources from Gdańsk
- 8 An iconographic source for the history of artillery in the latter half of the 15th century
- 9 Oranges in Gdańsk in the early 16th century
- 10 Ivashko Dovoynovich, starosta of Bielsk, and his wife Anna in a dispute with the burghers of Gdansk. Untapped sources for investigating the mentality of the nobility
- 11 The crime of Father Jan Sarnowski of the Godzięba coat of arms: Circumstances surrounding the death in Gdańsk of city magistrate Paul Dormheyn in 1481
- 12 Agnieszka Zarembówna, Sebastian Legendorf and the starostwo of Gniew, 1489–1504. The dispute over the starostwo of Gniew and Gdańsk’s involvement in it
- 13 The turbulent backdrop to the engagement of Anna Pilemann and Moritz Ferber
- Bibliography
- Index