Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region.

Introduction / Gaudeamus igitur in Bononia dum sumus: a network of Polish students in Italy in the late Middle Ages / A Venetian merchant in Poland: the life and times of Pietro Bicherano / How to Develop a Trade Network as a Newcomer without Getting Married? Examples from the Account Book of Danzig Merchant Johan Pyre / Marriage networks and building structures of power within the urban communities between the Drava River and the Adriatic Sea: a comparative approach / Inclusion and exclusion. Intercultural relationships in Old Warsaw in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in light of the municipal registers / The diplomacy of Sigismund of Luxembourg in the dispute between the Teutonic Knights and Poland-Lithuania / The coat of arms of Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, in the choir of Barcelona Cathedral. The role and significance of the Jagiellonian dynasty in the nineteenth assembly of the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1519 / Rome, Rostock and a remote region: Livonian bishops. / 9.What links the Last Judgment triptych by Hans Memling with Florence, Rome, Nuremberg, Breisach and Cracow? / Across boundaries. Artistic exchange (painting, sculpture) in the area between Gdansk (Danzig) and Königsberg in the late Middle Ages / Distant enemies, yet allies in art? Remarks on supposed artistic relations between fourteenth-century Prussia and the Islamic and Byzantine cultures in the Middle East / Late medieval networks of faith: the West and the East. Fortified urbanity and religion in fifteenth-century illuminations produced in France