Grad kao solidarna zajednica: što povezuje gradove Lübeck i Dubrovnik?
The city as a solidary community: What links the cities of Lübeck and Dubrovnik?

Author(s): Ludwig Steindorff
Subject(s): Historical Geography, Comparative history, Local History / Microhistory, Political history, Middle Ages
Published by: Hrvatski institut za povijest
Keywords: Dubrovnik; Lübeck; crisis; solidarity; communities; Adriatic; Baltic;
Summary/Abstract: In this essay I compare the cities of Lübeck and Dubrovnik on the basis of different criteria: geographical position, age, size of the city and the population, urban topography and ecclesiastical structures. Notwithstanding many clear differences, Lübeck and Dubrovnik show numerous identical structural traits: the forming of the commune and the urban council, the building of representative town halls, and the presence of the mendicant orders. The common characteristics of cities on the Adriatic and the Baltic seas follow from the structural assimilation of the cities in the sphere of the Western Church in the High Middle Ages independently of the age of these cities. The more we learn about these cities, the better we recognize how the character of the cities as solidary communities was already formed in the High Middle Ages. The comparison of cities is one of the contributions to the integration of Europe in the mind of its citizens.

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