Forthcoming
Publishing Programme 2024/2025
You can find all the titles published to date, as well as an outlook on the titles planned until autumn 2025, in our current publishing programme. heiUP titles are available online for free download and in print via bookshops.
Books
Florentine Banks in Germany
"Florentine Banks in Germany" offers a thorough examination of the market strategies employed by the influential Florentine banking families Alberti, Medici, and Spinelli from 1400 to 1475. Kurt Weissen reveals how these powerful merchants navigated the challenges and opportunities of the German market, facilitating key financial transfers between Germany and the Roman Curia. By leveraging advanced banking practices and building extensive networks across Europe, they played a crucial role in shaping medieval trade and finance, leaving a lasting impact on the development of economic systems in the early modern period, particularly within the realms of commerce and banking.
Bilder von Überresten
Only vestiges of the Middle Ages remain. They embody a period that has been assigned a wide range of historical, political and cultural meanings in modern and contemporary times. In addition to texts, images have also contributed to this. Material relics from sword pommels to cathedrals are presented to us in visual representations of printmaking, photography or book illustration. Through the transformation processes of targeted artistic appropriation and media transfer, not only the remains themselves take shape, but also the ways of seeing and understanding the past. The book traces this connection using the example of France, from the graphic arts of the late sixteenth century to the computer simulation of the early twenty-first century. It sketches a visual history of memory of the Middle Ages at the intersection of art history and history.
