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192 Ewert and Selzer In the late fifteenth century, this pattern itself turned into a hindrance to both the expansion and compet ...

Social Networks 193 Conclusion This chapter has been dedicated to the description of Hanseatic networks and the economic functio ...

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The Baltic Trade 195 The Main Trade Routes The connecting function constituted the basic element of the Baltic trade system. Tra ...

196 Jahnke Prussian and Livonian cities and, by beginning of the sixteenth century, grew into the main route in and out of the B ...

The Baltic Trade 197 The Main Trade Centers In the course of time some places on the Baltic developed into important trading-cen ...

198 Jahnke cultivation and beginning to produce more and more saleable surpluses in a wide hinterland of the southern Baltic reg ...

The Baltic Trade 199 In summary, one can say that these developments in the thirteenth cen- tury were the crucial point for the ...

200 Jahnke Stettin, which was situated at the Oder River, was the entrepôt to Silesia, Saxony and Brandenburg, and the surroundi ...

The Baltic Trade 201 and early sixteenth centuries, but grain export from the whole Baltic area was known from the thirteenth ce ...

202 Jahnke The Intra-Baltic Trade The Baltic was certainly not only the main route for international trade between Bruges and Re ...

The Baltic Trade 203 the Baltic area to be more a contact zone than a zone of productivity, even if the earnings of Hanseatic me ...

204 Jahnke In that climate and under that condition most of the important works on the Baltic trade emerged. Around 1900, Dietri ...

The Baltic Trade 205 over the gdr and the Soviet Union, and others lay suddenly behind the other side of the iron curtain like t ...

206 Jahnke grain trade,32 and 2005 Wolfgang Frontzek’s groundbreaking analysis of the Wendian beer-production.33 Therefore, it c ...

The Baltic Trade 207 Furthermore the research on Baltic trade is mostly concentrated on the Lubeckian point of view. This is und ...

208 Jahnke amber from the “Svevician Sea”, which was part of the later Prussian Sambia, to Rome.41 This trade continued uninterr ...

The Baltic Trade 209 and southern goods at the same time.48 The trade with Lübeck and Bruges was more monopolized. In Lübeck the ...

210 Jahnke destinations make it nearly impossible to estimate the average-rate of export. In the four years between 1397 and 140 ...

The Baltic Trade 211 budget of the year 1501/02.61 From 1550 on and for the next one hundred years, the family Koehn von Jaskis ...