A Companion to the Hanseatic League

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A Companion to the Hanseatic League ...

The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bceh Brill’s Companions to European History VOLUME 8 ...

A Companion to the Hanseatic League Edited by Donald J. Harreld LEIDEN | BOSTON ...

Cover illustration: Town seal of Lübeck, 1280, as depicted in Ernst Wallis’ Illustrerad verldshistoria, (Stockholm 1882, p. 333) ...

Contents List of Maps and Figures vi List of Contributors vii Introduction 1 Donald J. Harreld Part 1 General Hanse History 1 Th ...

List of Maps and Figures map caption 0.1 The Baltic region 11 0.2 The North Sea region 12 figure caption 5.1 Network of Guardian ...

List of Contributors Mike Burkhardt is the author of Der Bergenhandel im Spätmittelalter: Handel, Kaufleute, Netzwerke (Colonge, ...

viii list of contributors Jürgen Sarnowsky is Professor of Medieval History at Universitaet Hamburg. He is a board member for th ...

© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, ���5 | doi ��.��63/9789004�84760_00� Introduction Donald J. Harreld In Spring, 1870, the city of ...

2 Harreld meticulously detailed to the point of serving as a reference manual for later scholars. Several contemporaries, Rudolf ...

Introduction 3 tion of the Hanse as dynamic and pliable organization.11 For time being, how- ever, Hanse history remained largel ...

4 Harreld governance.15 Volker Henn’s work on communications between and among the Hansards and his research on their regional i ...

Introduction 5 network analysis has become of particular interest for scholars of the Hanse because of its ambiguous structure a ...

6 Harreld Hammel-Kiesow also employs a version of the world system approach to explain shifts in trade flows. First, by examinin ...

Introduction 7 that forces Sarnowsky to call into question the characterization of this period as a “golden age” for the Hanseat ...

8 Harreld Burkhardt situates the organization of the kontors within the context of a medieval corporate body. In this regard, ko ...

Introduction 9 movements of the High Middle Ages that brought large numbers of Germans to the Baltic regions. The newly settled ...

10 Harreld on goods produced in the Baltic “economic zone” which included regions far inland from the Baltic. The Hanse merchant ...

Introduction 11 Rostock Stralsund Tampere Helsinki Tallinn (Reval) Riga Vilnius The Baltic Region Minsk Kaliningrad Gdańsk (Danz ...