Town assemblies in comparison. Hanseatic Days in the Context of the political-ecclesiastical assembly cultures of the Pre-Modern Era
When & where
- Date: 26.-29.08.2019
- Location: European Hansemusem Lübeck
Topic
Diets are fundamental events of the medieval and early modern political landscape to express, communicate and negotiate all kinds of issues. Whether ad-hoc or as a periodic institution, getting together for consultation and collaborative decision making can be found in many different forms, such as imperial diets, urban diets, territorial diets (Landtage or Ständetage), Hanse diets, or church councils. The summer school was organized by the Research Centre for Hanse and Baltic History in cooperation with the chair for regional history of Schleswig-Holstein at the CAU Kiel, Oliver Auge, and brought together researches on different kinds of diets and associative culture to look at the field from a interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.
Five keynote lectures and a public lecture provided the participants with in-depth insights into the different kinds of diets as starting point for a profound comparison. The lectures were held by:
- Prof. Dr. Oliver Auge (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel)
- Dr. Angela Huang (FGHO Lübeck)
- Dr. Gabriele Annas (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
- Prof. Dr. Tim Neu (Universität Wien, then at Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
- Prof. Dr. Oliver Volckart (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
- PD Dr. Jörg Sonntag (Technische Universität Dresden)