Companion to Medieval Lübeck

Carsten Jahnke, Ph.D. 1998, Habilitation 2004, is Associate Professor of Medieval History at The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. He has published monographs, editions and articles on Lübeck’s history, the history of the Hanseatic League, and the history of Denmark.

"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).