Akiko HaradaDie Symbiose von Kirche und Stadt im Spätmittelalter

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This Book chooses the Imperial City of Nuremberg as an example and employs two complex themes. One is the symbiosis of the Church and the City (chaps. II and III). It builds on previous studies of this subject. The other theme is burghers’ sense of community (chap. IV).

The study on the relationship between the City and the Church has long been dominated by the “conflict model”. However, the Church was one of the most important centers of the everyday world (Lebenswelt), affecting religious, political, economic, and social elements of medieval urban society. Chapter II examines the role of a parish priest in the City before the Reformation. Chapter III describes the activities of the lay churchwardens (Kirchenpfleger).

The Church of the Middle Ages built a space where people gathered. For this reason, chapter IV deals with urban society and sense of community based on the burghers’ donations to the Church: the saint statues, the epitaphs, the deceased shields (Totenschilde), the stained glass windows, St. Sebald’s grave (in St. Sebald), the sacrament house, and The Annunciation (in St. Lorenz) and the Salve Regina. We can conclude that burghers’ donations had two dimensions: proof of affiliation to the urban community and the demonstration of the donor’s social position in the community. However, almost all of the burghers’ donations appear to encompass both motives, as the two sides of a coin.

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