Beata Możejko - New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Gdansk, Poland and Prussia

New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Poland and Prussia

New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Poland and Prussia: The Impact of Gdask draws together the latest research conducted by local historians and archaeologists on the city of Gdask and its impact on the surrounding region of Pomerania and Poland as a whole.

Beginning with Gdasks early political history and extending from the tenth to the sixteenth century, its 12 chapters explore a range of political, social and socio-cultural historical questions and explain such phenomena as the establishment and development of the Gdask port and city. A prominent theme is a consideration of the interactions between Gdask and Poland and Prussia, including a look into the citys links with the State of the Teutonic Order in Prussia and the Kingdom of Poland under the rule of the Piast and Jagiellonian dynasties. The chapters are placed in the historical context of medieval Poland as well as the broader themes of religion, the matrimonial policy of noble families or their contacts with the papacy.

This book is an exciting new study of medieval Poland and unparalleled in the English-speaking world, making it an ideal text for those wanting to deepen their knowledge in this subject area.

Beata Moejko, is Professor of History at the University of Gdask, Poland.

Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

1 Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 12001500
Edited by Harry Kitsikopoulos

2 Pluralism in the Middle Ages
Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati

3 Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics
War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades
Andrew A. Latham

4 Divorce in Medieval England
From One to Two Persons in Law
Sara M. Butler

5 Medieval Islamic Historiography
Remembering Rebellion
Heather N. Keaney

6 The Jewish-Christian Encounter in Medieval Preaching
Edited by Jonathan Adams and Jussi Hanska

7 Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England
Sara M. Butler

8 Wonder and Skepticism in the Middle Ages
Keagan Brewer

9 Medieval Hostageship c.700c.1500
Hostage, Captive, Prisoner of War, Guarantee, Peacemaker
Edited by Matthew Bennett and Katherine Weikert

10 New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Poland and Prussia
The Impact of Gdask
Edited by Beata Moejko

The Impact of Gdask

Edited by Beata Moejko

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BEATA MOEJKO

BAEJ LIWISKI AND BEATA MOEJKO

MARCIN GRULKOWSKI

SOBIESAW SZYBKOWSKI

ALEKSANDRA GIRSZTOWT

SAWOMIR KOCIELAK

BEATA MOEJKO

PAWE SADO

DARIUSZ KACZOR

ANDRZEJ WOZISKI

WERONIKA GROCHOWSKA

WITOLD BRZEZISKI

EWA BOJARUNIEC-KRL

Ewa Bojaruniec-Krl is Doctor of Humanities in Auxiliary Sciences of History and an Art Historian. She is Curator at the History Department of Gdask History Museum, Poland. Her research interests include the heraldry of the burgher class, with a focus on the coats of arms of Gdasks patrician families, and the family ties between the elites involved in municipal government who were influential in the citys political life in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She is the author of: Coats of Arms of Gdask Patricians from the 15th to the 18th Century (2014), as well as other research papers, including: Social Advancement among Patrician Families in Gdask in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period as Exemplified by the Ferber Family.

Witold Brzeziski is Assistant Professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. His main research interests are concerned with the issues related to the nobility in late medieval Poland. He is an author of the monograph Marital Alliances of Greater Polish Higher Nobility in the Second Half of the Fourteenth and the First Half of the Fifteenth Centuries (2012) and several articles, including recently published The Fortunes of Dorota of Wrzesnia, Wife of the Pozna Palatine Jan Ostrorog. A Contribution to the Womens History in the Late Medieval Poland (2015). He is currently working on a monograph on noblewomens living in late medieval Poland.

Aleksandra Girsztowt is a PhD student in Medieval History at University of Gdask, Poland. Her research is focused on handcraft and craft guilds in Teutonic Order State, especially in the capital city, Malbork. Her thesis focuses on various aspects of handcraft and guilds and their influence on craftsmens daily life economic and social as well as religious. She is also interested in social, economic and urban history of the Middle Ages.

Weronika Grochowska is a PhD student at the University of Gdask (Institute of History of Art), Poland. Her research concentrates on art created on a territory of the State of the Teutonic Order, especially on altarpieces their forms, contents and functions. She works in the National Museum in Gdask, where she specialises in digitisation. She cooperated with the National Institute for Museums and Public Collections (the Centre of Excellence for Digitisation in Museums) and the Malbork Castle Museum.

Marcin Grulkowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdask. Poland. In 2009 he defended his PhD dissertation at the University of Gdask. He focuses on municipal registers and the history of chancelleries in Hanseatic towns; the finances of Gdask in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. He is the author of the monograph The Oldest Municipal Registers of Main Town Gdask, from the 14th and the Beginning of the 15th Century. A Codicological Study (2015). He is also co-editor of Catalogue of Documents and Letters of the Kings of Poland. From the State Archive in Gdask (to 1492)