A Companion to the Hanseatic League

172 Ewert and Selzer generally commissioned their relatives with this kind of trustful duty. In real- ity, the opposite was true ...

Social Networks 173 Restricting the sample to those testators already connected by professional, social, or political matters wo ...

1 74 Ewert and Selzer Social Proximity vs. Spatial Vicinity as a Network Basis: Societies and Neighborhoods One approach to reco ...

Social Networks 175 wax to Johann van dem Springe in Lübeck, and part of this delivery was done by order of Hans Swaneke.27 Inst ...

176 Ewert and Selzer survived without gaps. The records of the Oberstadtbuch provide historians with valuable information, such ...

Social Networks 177 economic success usually meant that the respective person moved from the west side to the more reputable eas ...

178 Ewert and Selzer A Functional Perspective: The Economic Meaning of Social Networks The Structure of Trade Networks and Chara ...

Social Networks 179 branched-out trade networks evolved. Since most Hanseatic merchants oper- ated as self-employed traders, the ...

180 Ewert and Selzer is defined as a loose cooperation of legally and economically independent entities. This kind of interorgan ...

Social Networks 181 reciprocal sale operations was not necessary. The striking feature of this sort of mutual transaction is tha ...

182 Ewert and Selzer exclusive trade privileges held by Hansards were important determinants of the formation of trade networks. ...

Social Networks 183 that the density of the whole network was not complete. To a certain extent, it is an analytical drawback th ...

184 Ewert and Selzer members and friends. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, Hildebrand Veckinchusen traded from Bruges ...

Social Networks 185 partners friends and friends relatives. Engelbrecht Witte from Riga, the later father-in-law of Hildebrand V ...

186 Ewert and Selzer fostered a tight bond between the Hanseatic merchants.58 Cultural identity also appeared in marriage patter ...

Social Networks 187 actions—sending goods to a partner if goods were obtained from him, sell- ing the goods received if the part ...

188 Ewert and Selzer trading activities could be repeated infinitely,66 this defect in principle could be removed by common cult ...

Social Networks 189 this multilateral reputation mechanism,67 the Hanseatic network trade was a self-enforcing institution. Hans ...

190 Ewert and Selzer were due to these commitments. Common costs could be produced because single members of a commercial networ ...

Social Networks 191 A second block of costs contained all costs arising from collecting and pro- cessing information. Being a me ...