In public perception, the Middle Ages often have the reputation of being an immobile age: Travelling was dangerous and arduous and most people spent their entire lives close to where they were born. In recent years, however, there has been an increasing focus on the mobility of the pre-modern era, and groups of people such as travelling princes, merchants, pilgrims, messengers and mercenaries have been researched. This lecture focusses on the mobility of ‘normal’ inhabitants of the cities in the Hanseatic region around 1500. With the help of city letter books and a digital mapping of the historical route network, an attempt will be made to reconstruct the temporal and spatial extent of their lives.
Time: Thursday, 26.06.25, 18:00
Location: Pomeranian State Museum (admission is free!) & Zoom (see programme)
Zoom: uni-greifswald-de.zoom.us/j/9896944339
Speakers: Dr Angela Huan & Dr Bart Holterman
The rest of the lecture series programme can be found on the website of the Zentrum Mecklenburg: