Lecture with Dr. Bart Holterman and Dr. Angela Huang

In public perception, the Middle Ages often have the reputation of being an immobile age: Travel 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 research into groups of people such as traveling princes, merchants, pilgrims, messengers and mercenaries. This lecture focuses on the mobility of "normal" inhabitants of cities in the Hanseatic region around 1500. With the help of urban 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.

As part of the lecture series "Mobility" in cooperation with the Regional History Round Table of the Heimatverband MV.

Admission: free