und Verschwörungen, Städte ohne Adel, Fundnachweise für Adel, weltlichen und geistlichen Adel, Kloaken, Fernkaufleute und Ministerialen, niederer Adel und Burgmannen, adligen Lebensstil, Glasgefäße, Soziotopographien, Textquellen und Ausgrabungen, Zeugnisse von Macht und Erinnerung sowie Identitäten und soziale Differenzierung.

The cultural heritage of Medieval and Early Modern elites in urban Europe is reflected in many different facets. 36 researchers from 13 countries explored this topic at a conference in 2022, on which this volume is based. Two keynote papers [Baeriswyl, Ayers] are followed by contributions on findings from Cork [IRL], Bristol, York [GB], Ghent [B], ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Alkmaar, Amsterdam, Deventer [NL], Berlin/Cölln, Brandenburg a. d. Havel, Brunswick, Bremen, Göttingen, Cologne, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Münster, cities in Münsterland, Soest, Stralsund [D], Gdańsk, Kołobreg, Szczecin [PL], Riga [LV], Tallinn [EST], Visby [S], Aarhus [DK] and Turku [FIN] as well as an epilogue. Issues adressed are the significance of privileges, hydraulic engineering, the rise of a Medieval metropolis, power games and conspiracies, cities without nobility, evidence of aristocracy, secular and ecclesiastical nobility, cesspits, long-distance merchants and ministeriales, lesser nobility and castle inhabitants, aristocratic lifestyle, glass vessels, socio-topographies, textual sources and excavations, evidence of power and memory as well as identities and social differentiation.