New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Gdansk, Poland and Prussia

Beata Możejko is Professor in the Department of Medieval History of Poland and Auxilliary Sciences of History, Institute of History, University of Gdańsk (Poland). Her main field of interest is history of late medieval Gdańsk and of Hanseatic League. She focuses also on the study of medieval society and King of Poland Kazimierz Jagiellończyk (1447-1492). In her recent monograph, she pays attention to Great caravel „Peter von Danzig" 1462-1475 (2011). She is aslo co-editor of the volumes: The natural history of food. Between Ancient Time and The Nineteenth Century (2012); Catalogue of documents and letters of the kings of Poland. From the State Archive in Gdańsk (to 1492) (2014) and In the era of sailing ships. Sea between Ancient Time and The Eighteenth Century (2015).

• List of figuresList of maps List of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1.The political history of Gdańsk from the town beginnings to the 16th century1.1 The political history of Gdańsk: from the early 10th to the 14th century1.2. The political history of Gdańsk: from the early 15th to the 16th century2.Gdańsk Chancellery and Registers in the 14th–15th Centuries3.Two Local Empires in Confrontation. Poland and Lithuania Competing with the Teutonic State to Dominate the South-Eastern Region of the Baltic Sea (the End of the 14th c. to 1409)4. Crafts after decline of the Teutonic Order State. Case study of Malbork5.Religion in Gdańsk in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: from St. Adalbert’s Mission to the Reformation Victory6 . Maritime Gdańsk in the second half of the 14th and the 15th century: the phenomenon of privateer Paul Beneke and the great caravel Peter von DanzigBeata Możejko7. The city of Gdańsk faces the threat of Danish privateers at the end of the 15th and during the 16th century.8. City constitution, municipal laws and public order in the 16th - century Gdańsk9. In the Melting Pot of Different Traditions, Styles, and Tastes. Gothic Panel Painting in Gdańsk 10. Faith and political strategy. Artistic donations for St. Mary's Church in Gdańsk during the reign of the Teutonic Order11. Inter-regional marital alliances as an element of marriage strategies of the Greater Polish higher nobility in late medieval times (from the late 14th to the early 16th centuries)12. Ceremony and pleasure on the occasion