late medieval wills in southwest german imperial towns In many areas, including writing, the medieval city was often much more advanced than the countryside or the nobility. From the 12th century onwards, organized coexistence in confined spaces, assertion against enemies, and internal conflict resolution increasingly made use of written documents. In many areas, the cities with their various emerging institutions became laboratories and fields of experimentation for administration based on the written word.1 Therefore, a discussion of urban wills should not be missing from our investigation of wills.2 Medieval wills from towns in present-day Germany have long been a popular topic of research.3 Since the 19th century, important studies, works on regests, and even editions have been published about the wills of cities such as Lübeck,4 Rendsburg,5 Kiel,6 Mölln,7 Hamburg,8 Burg on Fehmarn,9 Rostock,10 Stralsund,11 Lüneburg,12 Brunswick,13 Göttingen,14 Osnabrück,15 Cologne,16 Frankfurt,17 Leipzig,18 Nuremberg,19 Regensburg,20 Worms,21 20 1 Cf. Mersiowsky et al. 2018; Mersiowsky 2018. 2 Cf. Brandt 1973; Wacke 1997; Ogris 1998; Kümper 2010. 3 Mol 1994; Gladen 1996; Richard 2006. 4 Brandt 1964, 1973; Meyer 2009. Cf. Loose 1980; Hölzel 1988; Wunder 1991; Rüther 1996; Dronske 1998; Meyer 1998; Nagel 1999; Noodt 2000; Meyer 2005; Jaacks 2005; Bieberstedt 2007; Rüther 2007; Dormeier 2008; Meyer 2010; Dormeier 2011; Dormeier 2012; Förster 2015; Förster 2017; Nalbach 2022. 5 Bongermino 2020, pp. 40–42. 6 Bongermino 2016; Bongermino 2017. 7 Selzer 2020. 8 Kalckmann 1883; Koppmann 1883; Loose 1980; Riethmüller 1994; Bongermino 2014. 9 Bongermino 2020, pp. 42–44. 10 Bongermino 2020, pp. 33–40. 11 Cf. Schildhauer 1981; Schildhauer 1988a; Schildhauer 1988b; Schildhauer 1989; Schildhauer 1991; Schildhauer 1992; Schildhauer 1998a; Schildhauer 1998b; Lusiardi 2000; Bettin et al. 2003; Schildhauer 2005; Bettin 2016–2017. 12 Reinhardt ed. 1996. Cf. Reinhardt 1997; Mosler-Christoph 1998; Weidemann 2012. 13 Mack 1988–1995. Cf. Piper 1960; Weglage 2011; Steinführer 2015; Steyer 2021. 14 Boockmann 1983. 15 Queckenstedt 1991. 16 Kuske 1923; Baumeister 1953; cf. Aders 1932; Klosterberg 1995. 17 Euler 1858. 18 Berger 1994; not accessible Miethe 2005. 19 Meyer 1999. 20 https://www.uni-regensburg.de/philosophie-kunst-geschichte-gesellschaft/forummittelalter/forschungsstelle-regensburger-stadtgeschichte/index.html; cf. Kolmer 1989; Hartinger 1993; Paringer/Richard 2005; Richard 2010.
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