Mark Whelan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Whelan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Whelan |
| SIGNATURE | WHELAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2234-5419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Verlust und Dauer. Weshalb sie nicht mehr fuhren und was an die Stelle trat
Journal Article Verlust und Dauer. Weshalb sie nicht mehr fuhren und was an die Stelle trat: die Preußenreisen des europäischen Adels Get access Verlust und Dauer. Weshalb sie nicht mehr fuhren und was an die Stelle trat: die Preußenreisen des europäischen Adels. By Werner Paravicini. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2024. 596 pp. €75.00 (hardback/e-book). Mark Whelan Mark Whelan Queen Mary University of London, UK [email protected] https://o…
Trade, taste and ecology
Often considered a ubiquitous and widely available sweetener, this article represents the first study of the honey trade across Europe in the later Middle Ages. Demand for honey, fuelled by diverse cultural and social factors, encouraged an international trade that by the late medieval period spanned the Mediterranean, western Atlantic, and the North and Baltic Seas, connecting peoples, traders and landscapes from Beirut to Novgorod. As a natural…
Johan Pyre
This two-part work publishes for the first time the account book of the Hanse merchant Johan Pyre, a native of Danzig (Gdańsk) who traded in diverse wares with peers spanning northern Europe from King’s Lynn to Novgorod between 1421 and 1455. Orłowska’s impressive and expertly presented edition is accompanied by a substantial 448-page analysis of Pyre’s account book that not only sheds new light on commercial activity in the late medieval Baltic …
Stadtgesellschaft und Memoria
Journal Article Stadtgesellschaft und Memoria: Die Ausrichtung auf das Jenseits und ihre sozialen Implikationen Get access Stadtgesellschaft und Memoria: Die Ausrichtung auf das Jenseits und ihre sozialen Implikationen. By Thomas Schilp. Turnhout: Brepols. 2023. 398 pp. €110.00 (hardback/e-book). Mark Whelan Mark Whelan University of Surrey, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2234-5419 Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Mead from Riga’
This article represents the first study of the trade and consumption of mead, the alcoholic beverage brewed by fermenting honey with water, in the late medieval Baltic. Focusing on the Teutonic Order and the Hanse settlements in the region, the article argues that the consumption of mead was culturally embedded in German-speaking communities, heightening the status of the beverage, turning it into a vital resource in the exercise of power and inf…
Wien im Mittelalter
This helpful and illuminating volume makes the history of medieval Vienna accessible to a new generation of students and researchers. The book is divided into two sections: the first consisting of an extensive timeline outlining Viennese history and events from c.800 to the Ottoman siege of 1529, with the second formed of thematic chapters, examining various aspects of civic history and life. The timeline extends across the first 228 pages and be…
On behalf of the city’
Focusing on the largely unpublished ‘city accounts’ (‘Stadsrekeningen’) of Bruges, this article examines the city's giving of prestigious Baltic beeswax to their lords, the Valois and (later) Habsburg dukes of Burgundy. It sheds new light on urban government by analysing how civic leaders across north-western Europe used the apiary product to manage often fraught relationships with their rulers and reinforce their identities as trading centres or…
Adlig leben im 14. Jahrhundert. Weshalb sie fuhren
This book represents the third volume of Werner Paravicini’s monumental study of the ‘Preußenreisen’, the military expeditions launched by the Teutonic Order and their array of international volunteers into Russia and Lithuania from their base in Prussia. The first two volumes, as Paravicini states, focused on ‘what the European nobility did’ while on these campaigns, and he now turns to the issue of ‘why they went’ (p. 15). Assessing what attrac…
Schuldenverwaltung und Tilgung der Forderungen der Söldner des Deutschen Ordens in Preußen nach dem Zweiten Thorner Frieden. Ordensfoliant 259 und 261, Zusatzmaterial
This illuminating and thoroughly researched volume presents two remarkable administrative codices produced in the later 1400s and early 1500s by the rulers of the Teutonic Order in Prussia to manage their extensive debts in the aftermath of the so-called ‘Thirteen Years’ War’ (1454–66). This destructive civil war pitted the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order and his allies against the Prussian Confederation, a mixed association of Prussian nobilit…
Taxes, Wagenburgs and a Nightingale
Drawing upon unpublished financial accounts, this article sheds new light on how an ecclesiastical institution in southern Germany navigated the tense military and political environment of the Holy Roman Empire during the Hussite wars. The accounts of Ellwangen Abbey offer a compelling window into how its community dealt with a series of military, economic and diplomatic challenges – from raising extraordinary war taxes and hosting the visiting e…
The Templars, the Hospitallers and the Crusades
This stimulating volume of sixteen essays is dedicated to Alan J. Forey, a leading expert in the history of the medieval military religious orders. Divided into four parts, the essays are grouped into sections focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, the Eastern Mediterranean, the trial of the Templars and its aftermath, and the military orders in the late medieval and early modern periods. The volume begins with a touching introduction by the editors,…
Wirtschaft, Krieg und Seelenheil
This stimulating and wide-ranging book focuses on the execution and impact of the ‘trade ban’ (‘Handelsverbot’) enforced by Catholic powers in the hope of weakening and ultimately destroying the Hussite movement that in 1419/20 had freed Bohemia from allegiance to pope and king and threatened the ruling elites of Christendom ever since. The impact of the trade ban on the Hussites is contested: some scholars credit it with crippling the Bohemian e…
The 'conciliar' front of the Hundred Years' War
This article offers the first analysis of Anglo-Scottish tension at the general ecclesiastical council of Pavia-Siena (1423-4), where Thomas Murray, abbot of Paisley, spearheaded attacks on the English delegation in the name of the French and Scottish kingdoms with Castilian and Italian allies. Murray's attacks illustrate how the council formed a front line in the ongoing Anglo-French conflict and that the tensions between the kingdoms of Scotlan…
Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, Duncan Hardy seeks to reshape how we conceptualize the Holy Roman Empire as a political entity. With particular reference to Upper Germany—the Upper Rhine region stretching (roughly) from Lorraine to Franconia west to east, and from Mainz to Lake Constance north to south—Hardy argues that the Empire can be best understood through the lens of associative political culture, a model which emphasizes as…
Noble Society
This tremendously useful source volume makes available in English five texts dealing with the diverse lives of five German aristocrats in the later eleventh and twelfth centuries, including a margrave, a count, a bishop, an abbess and a Magistra (the female leader of the women’s side of a double monastic community). Jonathan R. Lyon has succeeded admirably in making possible much deeper study of fascinating individuals who fought, prayed and died…
Heilige, Helden, Wüteriche
This volume, edited by Martin Bauch, Julia Burkhardt, Tomáš Gaudek and Václav Žůrek, brings together an array of chapters focused on the ‘Herrschaftsstile’ of the Luxemburg dynasty, a house that reigned over swathes of central Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and which produced no fewer than three Holy Roman Emperors. The meaning of the term ‘Herrschaftsstile’ (roughly translated as ‘ruling styles’) is discussed in the introductio…
Between Papacy and Empire
Cardinal Henry Beaufort’s career as papal legate and anti-Hussite crusader was as scandalous as it was brief. Commanded in 1427 by Pope Martin V (1417–31) to spearhead Christendom’s efforts to extirpate the Hussite heresy in Bohemia, Beaufort eventually succeeded in raising a crusading army in England in the summer of 1429 with money from the papacy and the proceeds from taxation levied in the Holy Roman Empire. Beaufort then shocked contemporari…
Rom 1312
This stimulating and wide-ranging collection sets itself the task of assessing the European significance of Emperor Henry VII’s coronation in Rome of 1312 and the subsequent rise of the Luxemburg dynasty. Such a focus is welcome, for the Luxemburg dynasty, despite ruling vast tracts of land across western and central Europe for centuries, frequently suffers from a lack of attention, squeezed as they are between the characterful and exotic dynasts…
Pasquale de Sorgo and the Second Battle of Kosovo (1448)
Slavonic and East European Review, 94, 1, 2016 DOCUMENT Pasquale de Sorgo and the Second Battle of Kosovo (1448): A Translation MARK WHELAN Introduction Writing in 1502, the Croatian humanist Felix Petancius (Feliks Petančić) referred to the Second Battle of Kosovo in 1448 as ‘that unfortunate, unforgettable and abominable disaster’ (illa infausta et omnibus saeculis execranda clades).1 His choice of words is understandable, for the Second Battle…
Antemurale Christianitatis
This impressive work is the first attempt at a general history of the so-called antemurale christianitatis rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe in the medieval and early modern periods. The antemurale christianitatis motif (often rendered into English as ‘Bulwark of Christendom’), was a staple feature in the literature, orations, historical works and diplomatic correspondence of the time, where royal and princely courts on the borders of Christ…
Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453–1505, by Norman HousleyVisions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe, by Andrei Pippidi
Norman Housley is a leading expert on the crusading movement and religious warfare in the later medieval period, and his previous publications, such as The Later Crusades: From Lyons to Alcazar, 1274–1580 (1992; rev. ante, cix [1994], pp. 109–11) and Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400–1536 (2002; rev. ante, cxix [2004], pp. 189–90), are highly influential works within the field and remain the first ports of call for undergraduates and academics in…
Kaiser Sigismund (1368–1437)
This stimulating collection of articles, edited by Karel Hruza and Alexandra Kaar, seeks to bring new impetus to the study of Sigismund of Luxemburg (1369–1437), a man who acquired no fewer than four kingdoms in his lifetime. As King of Hungary (1387), King of the Romans (1410), King of Bohemia (1419), King of the Lombards (1431) and Holy Roman Emperor (1433), Sigismund was a ruler of great significance, whose influence was felt throughout Christ…
Trade, taste and ecology
Often considered a ubiquitous and widely available sweetener, this article represents the first study of the honey trade across Europe in the later Middle Ages. Demand for honey, fuelled by diverse cultural and social factors, encouraged an international trade that by the late medieval period spanned the Mediterranean, western Atlantic, and the North and Baltic Seas, connecting peoples, traders and landscapes from Beirut to Novgorod. As a natural…
Between Papacy and Empire
Cardinal Henry Beaufort’s career as papal legate and anti-Hussite crusader was as scandalous as it was brief. Commanded in 1427 by Pope Martin V (1417–31) to spearhead Christendom’s efforts to extirpate the Hussite heresy in Bohemia, Beaufort eventually succeeded in raising a crusading army in England in the summer of 1429 with money from the papacy and the proceeds from taxation levied in the Holy Roman Empire. Beaufort then shocked contemporari…
Kaiser Sigismund (1368–1437)
This stimulating collection of articles, edited by Karel Hruza and Alexandra Kaar, seeks to bring new impetus to the study of Sigismund of Luxemburg (1369–1437), a man who acquired no fewer than four kingdoms in his lifetime. As King of Hungary (1387), King of the Romans (1410), King of Bohemia (1419), King of the Lombards (1431) and Holy Roman Emperor (1433), Sigismund was a ruler of great significance, whose influence was felt throughout Christ…
Crusading and the Ottoman Threat, 1453–1505, by Norman HousleyVisions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe, by Andrei Pippidi
Norman Housley is a leading expert on the crusading movement and religious warfare in the later medieval period, and his previous publications, such as The Later Crusades: From Lyons to Alcazar, 1274–1580 (1992; rev. ante, cix [1994], pp. 109–11) and Religious Warfare in Europe, 1400–1536 (2002; rev. ante, cxix [2004], pp. 189–90), are highly influential works within the field and remain the first ports of call for undergraduates and academics in…
Pasquale de Sorgo and the Second Battle of Kosovo (1448)
Slavonic and East European Review, 94, 1, 2016 DOCUMENT Pasquale de Sorgo and the Second Battle of Kosovo (1448): A Translation MARK WHELAN Introduction Writing in 1502, the Croatian humanist Felix Petancius (Feliks Petančić) referred to the Second Battle of Kosovo in 1448 as ‘that unfortunate, unforgettable and abominable disaster’ (illa infausta et omnibus saeculis execranda clades).1 His choice of words is understandable, for the Second Battle…
Antemurale Christianitatis
This impressive work is the first attempt at a general history of the so-called antemurale christianitatis rhetoric in Central and Eastern Europe in the medieval and early modern periods. The antemurale christianitatis motif (often rendered into English as ‘Bulwark of Christendom’), was a staple feature in the literature, orations, historical works and diplomatic correspondence of the time, where royal and princely courts on the borders of Christ…
Between Papacy and Empire
Cardinal Henry Beaufort’s career as papal legate and anti-Hussite crusader was as scandalous as it was brief. Commanded in 1427 by Pope Martin V (1417–31) to spearhead Christendom’s efforts to extirpate the Hussite heresy in Bohemia, Beaufort eventually succeeded in raising a crusading army in England in the summer of 1429 with money from the papacy and the proceeds from taxation levied in the Holy Roman Empire. Beaufort then shocked contemporari…
Rom 1312
This stimulating and wide-ranging collection sets itself the task of assessing the European significance of Emperor Henry VII’s coronation in Rome of 1312 and the subsequent rise of the Luxemburg dynasty. Such a focus is welcome, for the Luxemburg dynasty, despite ruling vast tracts of land across western and central Europe for centuries, frequently suffers from a lack of attention, squeezed as they are between the characterful and exotic dynasts…
Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire
In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, Duncan Hardy seeks to reshape how we conceptualize the Holy Roman Empire as a political entity. With particular reference to Upper Germany—the Upper Rhine region stretching (roughly) from Lorraine to Franconia west to east, and from Mainz to Lake Constance north to south—Hardy argues that the Empire can be best understood through the lens of associative political culture, a model which emphasizes as…
Noble Society
This tremendously useful source volume makes available in English five texts dealing with the diverse lives of five German aristocrats in the later eleventh and twelfth centuries, including a margrave, a count, a bishop, an abbess and a Magistra (the female leader of the women’s side of a double monastic community). Jonathan R. Lyon has succeeded admirably in making possible much deeper study of fascinating individuals who fought, prayed and died…
Heilige, Helden, Wüteriche
This volume, edited by Martin Bauch, Julia Burkhardt, Tomáš Gaudek and Václav Žůrek, brings together an array of chapters focused on the ‘Herrschaftsstile’ of the Luxemburg dynasty, a house that reigned over swathes of central Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and which produced no fewer than three Holy Roman Emperors. The meaning of the term ‘Herrschaftsstile’ (roughly translated as ‘ruling styles’) is discussed in the introductio…
The 'conciliar' front of the Hundred Years' War
This article offers the first analysis of Anglo-Scottish tension at the general ecclesiastical council of Pavia-Siena (1423-4), where Thomas Murray, abbot of Paisley, spearheaded attacks on the English delegation in the name of the French and Scottish kingdoms with Castilian and Italian allies. Murray's attacks illustrate how the council formed a front line in the ongoing Anglo-French conflict and that the tensions between the kingdoms of Scotlan…
On behalf of the city’
Focusing on the largely unpublished ‘city accounts’ (‘Stadsrekeningen’) of Bruges, this article examines the city's giving of prestigious Baltic beeswax to their lords, the Valois and (later) Habsburg dukes of Burgundy. It sheds new light on urban government by analysing how civic leaders across north-western Europe used the apiary product to manage often fraught relationships with their rulers and reinforce their identities as trading centres or…
Adlig leben im 14. Jahrhundert. Weshalb sie fuhren
This book represents the third volume of Werner Paravicini’s monumental study of the ‘Preußenreisen’, the military expeditions launched by the Teutonic Order and their array of international volunteers into Russia and Lithuania from their base in Prussia. The first two volumes, as Paravicini states, focused on ‘what the European nobility did’ while on these campaigns, and he now turns to the issue of ‘why they went’ (p. 15). Assessing what attrac…
Schuldenverwaltung und Tilgung der Forderungen der Söldner des Deutschen Ordens in Preußen nach dem Zweiten Thorner Frieden. Ordensfoliant 259 und 261, Zusatzmaterial
This illuminating and thoroughly researched volume presents two remarkable administrative codices produced in the later 1400s and early 1500s by the rulers of the Teutonic Order in Prussia to manage their extensive debts in the aftermath of the so-called ‘Thirteen Years’ War’ (1454–66). This destructive civil war pitted the grandmaster of the Teutonic Order and his allies against the Prussian Confederation, a mixed association of Prussian nobilit…
Taxes, Wagenburgs and a Nightingale
Drawing upon unpublished financial accounts, this article sheds new light on how an ecclesiastical institution in southern Germany navigated the tense military and political environment of the Holy Roman Empire during the Hussite wars. The accounts of Ellwangen Abbey offer a compelling window into how its community dealt with a series of military, economic and diplomatic challenges – from raising extraordinary war taxes and hosting the visiting e…
The Templars, the Hospitallers and the Crusades
This stimulating volume of sixteen essays is dedicated to Alan J. Forey, a leading expert in the history of the medieval military religious orders. Divided into four parts, the essays are grouped into sections focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, the Eastern Mediterranean, the trial of the Templars and its aftermath, and the military orders in the late medieval and early modern periods. The volume begins with a touching introduction by the editors,…
Wirtschaft, Krieg und Seelenheil
This stimulating and wide-ranging book focuses on the execution and impact of the ‘trade ban’ (‘Handelsverbot’) enforced by Catholic powers in the hope of weakening and ultimately destroying the Hussite movement that in 1419/20 had freed Bohemia from allegiance to pope and king and threatened the ruling elites of Christendom ever since. The impact of the trade ban on the Hussites is contested: some scholars credit it with crippling the Bohemian e…
Mead from Riga’
This article represents the first study of the trade and consumption of mead, the alcoholic beverage brewed by fermenting honey with water, in the late medieval Baltic. Focusing on the Teutonic Order and the Hanse settlements in the region, the article argues that the consumption of mead was culturally embedded in German-speaking communities, heightening the status of the beverage, turning it into a vital resource in the exercise of power and inf…
Wien im Mittelalter
This helpful and illuminating volume makes the history of medieval Vienna accessible to a new generation of students and researchers. The book is divided into two sections: the first consisting of an extensive timeline outlining Viennese history and events from c.800 to the Ottoman siege of 1529, with the second formed of thematic chapters, examining various aspects of civic history and life. The timeline extends across the first 228 pages and be…
Trade, taste and ecology
Often considered a ubiquitous and widely available sweetener, this article represents the first study of the honey trade across Europe in the later Middle Ages. Demand for honey, fuelled by diverse cultural and social factors, encouraged an international trade that by the late medieval period spanned the Mediterranean, western Atlantic, and the North and Baltic Seas, connecting peoples, traders and landscapes from Beirut to Novgorod. As a natural…
Johan Pyre
This two-part work publishes for the first time the account book of the Hanse merchant Johan Pyre, a native of Danzig (Gdańsk) who traded in diverse wares with peers spanning northern Europe from King’s Lynn to Novgorod between 1421 and 1455. Orłowska’s impressive and expertly presented edition is accompanied by a substantial 448-page analysis of Pyre’s account book that not only sheds new light on commercial activity in the late medieval Baltic …
Stadtgesellschaft und Memoria
Journal Article Stadtgesellschaft und Memoria: Die Ausrichtung auf das Jenseits und ihre sozialen Implikationen Get access Stadtgesellschaft und Memoria: Die Ausrichtung auf das Jenseits und ihre sozialen Implikationen. By Thomas Schilp. Turnhout: Brepols. 2023. 398 pp. €110.00 (hardback/e-book). Mark Whelan Mark Whelan University of Surrey, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2234-5419 Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Verlust und Dauer. Weshalb sie nicht mehr fuhren und was an die Stelle trat
Journal Article Verlust und Dauer. Weshalb sie nicht mehr fuhren und was an die Stelle trat: die Preußenreisen des europäischen Adels Get access Verlust und Dauer. Weshalb sie nicht mehr fuhren und was an die Stelle trat: die Preußenreisen des europäischen Adels. By Werner Paravicini. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2024. 596 pp. €75.00 (hardback/e-book). Mark Whelan Mark Whelan Queen Mary University of London, UK [email protected] https://o…
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