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Amsterdam Centre for Urban History Amsterdam Centre for Urban History

Dr. J.J. (Justyna) Wubs-Mrozewicz

Faculty of Humanities
Geschiedenis
Visiting address
  • Kloveniersburgwal 48
  • Room number: C.107
Postal address
  • Postbus 1610
    1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Personal website

    Personal website: http://justynawubs-mrozewicz.blogspot.nl/

  • NWO VIDI project 2018-2023 Managing-multi-level conflicts in commercial cities in northern Europe (c.1350-1570)

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    The pre-publication of the extensive research note on the project (TSEG/ The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, scheduled for 2018) is available upon mail request, j.j.wubs-mrozewicz@uva.nl

    NWO ( The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) summary 

    We all want to know how to end conflicts. That is why conflict resolution has been at the centre of academic debates in relation to individual, group and large-scale clashes. Yet conflicts are not only brought to an end. The current challenge is to reconsider classical paradigms for dealing with conflicts and anchor this change in historical reflection. In this project, ‘conflict managers’ in premodern commercial cities in northern Europe open a new door to understanding how conflicts were dealt with in the past. I propose a five-partite model of conflict management, consisting of prevention, provocation, maintenance of the status quo, escalation and resolution. Combining insights from economic, legal and political history, and aiming to contribute to these fields with a fundamentally novel approach, I analyse individual, group and large-scale conflicts as one system of relations, connected through the group of people who dealt with them: the faces of institutions in premodern Europe.
    Conflict managers were embedded in merchant networks and fulfilled multiple and flexible roles such as mediators, judges and urban diplomats. I hypothesise that the development of sophisticated management strategies, designed by and put into practice by experienced conflict managers, was essential for safeguarding the autonomy of premodern commercial cities in northern Europe. A transnational and comparative analysis of city cases from c. 1350-1570 involving varying degrees of autonomy will test this hypothesis and reveal how cities in northern Europe responded to state formation and complex changes.

    The insights from this project will contribute directly to research on contemporary conflicts by showing why we today should look beyond conflict resolution and fixed roles of conflict managers. The project is thus a relevant contribution to modern Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and economic diplomacy, disciplines which combine theory with practice to explore alternatives to law and political intervention
     

  • Publications

    2024

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. J. (2024). Hansische und preußische Tagfahrten. Konfliktbewältigung, Geheimhaltung und Räumlichkeit vom späten 14. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert. In Hansische Tagfahrten Bohlau Verlag.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. J., & Gustafsson, S. (2024). The Hanseatic world and Scandinavia. In The Cambridge Urban History of Europe: Cambridge University Press

    2022

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. J., & Jenks, S. (2022). Message in a Bottle: Merchants' letters, merchants' marks and conflict management in 1533-34. A source edition. (Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800); Vol. 57). Brepols Publishers.

    2021

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (2021). Conflicts about property: Ships and inheritances in Danzig and in the Hanse area (fifteenth to sixteenth centuries). In J. W. Armstrong, & E. Frankot (Eds.), Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe : Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650 (pp. 192-206). (Themes in medieval and early modern history). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429262869-15 [details]

    2020

    2019

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (2019). Maritime Networks and Premodern Conflict Management on Multiple Levels. The Example of Danzig and the Giese Family. In Reti marittime come fattori dell'integrazione Europea = Maritime networks as a factor in European integration: Selezione di ricerche = Selection of essays (pp. 385-405). (Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini" Prato: Serie 2, Atti delle "Settimane di studio" e altri convegni; Vol. 50). Firenze University Press. [details]

    2018

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (2018). Witnessing the sea: Testimonials of seamen in the 'Seven Salt Ships' case (1564–1567) as sources for maritime, social, and legal history. International Journal of Maritime History, 30(4), 701-723. https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871418809249 [details]

    2017

    • Blockmans, W., & Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (2017). European integration from the seaside: a comparative analysis. In W. Blockmans, M. Krom, & J. Wubs-Mrozewicz (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600 (pp. 446-481). (The Routledge history handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315278575-25 [details]
    • Blockmans, W., Krom, M., & Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (2017). Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600: Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy. In W. Blockmans, M. Krom, & J. Wubs-Mrozewicz (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600 (pp. 1-14). (The Routledge history handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315278575-1 [details]
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (2017). Danzig (Gdańsk): seeking stability and autonomy. In W. Blockmans, M. Krom, & J. Wubs-Mrozewicz (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600 (pp. 248-272). (The Routledge history handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315278575-15 [details]
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (2017). The late medieval and early modern Hanse as an institution of conflict management. Continuity and Change, 32(1), 59-84. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416017000066 [details]

    2016

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J., & Wijffels, A. (2016). Diplomacy and Advocacy: The case of the King of Denmark v. Dutch Skippers before the Danzig City Council (1564–1567)
. Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis, 84(1-2), 1-53. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718190-08412p01 [details]

    2022

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. J. (Author). (2022). History in conflict webinar: introducing the early modern edition. Web publication or website
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. J. (Author). (2022). History in conflict webinar: introducing the modern edition. Web publication or website

    2021

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. J. (Author). (2021). Introducing a blog series on #historyinconflicts: the medieval edition. Web publication or website, .

    2019

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (2019). Van wie is dit biertje? Import, consumptie en productie van bier in middeleeuws Amsterdam. In S. Bosmans, & M. Klein (Eds.), De smaak van Amsterdam: 700 jaar stedelijke eetcultuur (pp. 10-37, 192-195). (Jaarboek van het Genootschap Amstelodamum; Vol. 111). Genootschap Amstelodamum. [details]

    2017

    2023

    2021

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. J. (2021). Sekret siedmiu statków. PWN Rozpisani.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. J. (2021). The Secret of the Seven Ships. PWN Rozpisani.

    Prize / grant

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (2019). Humanities Education Award 2019 for MA course Zorgen voor hetZelf. Groep en individu van de Vikingen tot nu (UvA FGw).

    Media appearance

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (08-12-2023). BBC Radio 4. Hanse (for BBC radio 4 programme).
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (12-09-2023). NPO1, Netherlands. Recorded interview for Het Verhaal van Amsterdam.

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    Talk / presentation

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (16-3-2023). Brussels Urban History Seminar, Common good, common cities, common trust? , Brussels.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (13-1-2023). Common good, common cities, common trust? The forms and functions of generalized trust in premodern urban Europe, University of Oxford, Trust in the Premodern World, Interdisciplinary Conference.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (22-12-2022). Premodern conflict management and merchants' marks databases: a comparison.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (14-10-2022). The Trouble with Legal Pluralism: the Case of Danzig (1466-1570), Münster, conference on Legal pluralism in northern Europe.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (24-6-2022). War, money, language, Webinar History in Conflict (organized by Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz). https://premodernconflictmanagement.org/conferences/historyinconflictwebinarsblog.p/95.m/63/justyna-wubs-mrozewicz-war-money-language
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (16-6-2022). 'Gdańsk i sekret siedmiu statków w XVI wieku (…oraz XXI). Konflikty, źródła, odkrycia, Uphagen lecture series, Gdansk.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (28-4-2022). Postbag from the past: Merchants’ Letters between London, Antwerp, and Luebeck in 1533, London, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advances Study University of London, Medieval and Tudor London.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (8-10-2021). Between Antwerp, London and Lübeck. Merchants’ letters and merchants’ marks in 1533, Belgian-British webinar series, Queen Mary’s/ University of Ghent.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (9-9-2021). Merchants' Marks in Premodern Northern Europe: Communicating Networks, Cambridge university online conference 'Communities and Networks in Late Medieval Europe'.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (22-4-2021). The Trader and the Emperor: Networks and Conflict Escalation in Late Medieval Northern Europe, MECERN 2021.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (25-3-2021). he Hanse in Europe (13th - 21st century):a bridge across times and regions.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (10-10-2019). Premodern conflict management: sources disclosing connections through space, time and disciplines, conference University of Cambridge/Fitzwilliam Museum; workshop: ‘New directions for technical art history’.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (12-9-2019). ‘The art of Hanseatic conflict management, University of Bergen/ University Museum of Bergen conference: Bergen, Hanse und Kirchenkunst – Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte rund um die Nordsee (1150-1550).
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (23-5-2019). Law, diplomacy, blackmail: conflict management in the Hollandish salt ships case in Danzig (1564-1567), Leiden University, conference: Conflict management in Atlantic the North Sea and the Baltic, 1200-1600: Actors, Institutions and Practices of Dispute Settlement.
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (speaker) (16-11-2018). Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570, presentation of an analytical model and a new research project, University of Cambridge, core seminar of social and economic history lecture.

    Others

    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (participant) (7-9-2023 - 9-9-2023). Hanse symposium Zwolle (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://premodernconflictmanagement.org/news.p/26.m/110/hanse-symposium-in-zwolle-709-809-2023
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (participant) (5-10-2022 - 8-10-2022). The layers of identification in Gdańsk/Danzig in the 1460s-1560s:foreign merchants, sailors and craftsmen (and their wives) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (participant) (31-8-2022 - 3-9-2022). 15th Conference of the European Association for Urban History (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (other) (2022). Podcast interview for History Hit (other). https://shows.acast.com/gone-medieval/episodes/hanseatic-league
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (participant) (25-11-2021). Pfingsttagung Hansischer Geschichtsverein. Hansische und preussische Tagfahrten: Konfliktbewältigung, Geheimhaltung und Räumlichkeit vom 14. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (participant) (18-11-2021 - 21-11-2021). Bergen legal history conference. The policy and the practice of conflict management in the Hanse. Sources and interpretations the Danzig case as a point of departure (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (participant) (26-11-2020). RiMS Research in Medieval Studies. An International Meeting Series. Production and Commerce in Europe, 1100-1550 (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (participant) (17-9-2020 - 29-10-2020). Three nodegoat workshops at the University of Amsterdam (online). Organisation of a series of database workshops (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (other) (2020). Interview in Folia 'Wat volgende generaties zullen leren over 2020 ' (other). https://www.folia.nl/actueel/140545/wat-volgende-generaties-zullen-leren-over-2020-corona-is-een-geloofsbelijdenis
    • Wubs-Mrozewicz, J. (participant) (29-8-2018 - 1-9-2018). EAUH Rome 2018 (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

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