For the past few decades, modern scholars of mediaeval studies have no longer enquired merely into what it was really like when interpreting sources, but have tried to get a closer insight into the images, perceptions and ideas of people in the Middle Ages. This volume on the one hand elaborates on exemplary contempory notions partly on an historiographical basis and on the other scrutinizes modern perceptions of medieaval people and developments with the help of contemporary sources.

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Dr. Jürgen Sarnowsky ist Professor für Mittelalterliche Geschichte an der Universität Hamburg.