New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Gdansk, Poland and Prussia

_x005F_x000D_ New Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Gdansk, Poland and Prussia draws together the latest reseach on the important port town of Gdansk and its impact on the surrounding region of Pomerania and Poland as a whole. The twelve chapters explore various political, social, and socio-cultural historical questions and explain such phenomena as the establishment and the development of the Gdansk port and city and its links with the Teutonic Order and Polish kings. The chapters are placed in the historical context of medieval Poland as well as the broader historical themes of matrimonial policy of noble families or their contacts with the papacy.