A Companion to the Hanseatic League

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© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, ���5 | doi ��.��63/9789004�84760_ 003 CHAPTER 1 The Early Hanses* Rolf Hammel-Kiesow Introductio ...

16 Hammel-Kiesow the Baltic southern coast as “in large measure dead”4 prior to the Germans’ arrival. While some still held to t ...

The Early Hanses 17 of the Baltic Region into the Christian occidental world not as a singular process, but as part of a Europea ...

18 Hammel-Kiesow component, the weight-money system facilitated trade in this expansive eco- nomic area as a mode of standard cu ...

The Early Hanses 19 Baltic politics until the death of Boleslav iii Schiefmund (died 1138).15 The role played by the western Sla ...

20 Hammel-Kiesow (Wolin) and on to Novgorod.19 The most westerly region of the western Slavic realm, Wagria, where Old Lübeck wa ...

The Early Hanses 21 new era of regionalized coinage in the Baltic, only Denmark continued to make its own coins by the turn of t ...

22 Hammel-Kiesow important in accommodating traffic between west/central Europe and the Baltic.28 The cathedrals in Ribe and Sch ...

The Early Hanses 23 the establishment of a merchant settlement near Old Lübeck, which was, with the exception of Prague, the fir ...

24 Hammel-Kiesow within the context of his own political initiatives, which, in their entirety, reached as far as the Baltic coa ...

The Early Hanses 25 of German merchants.42 During the time of Henry of Old Lübeck (1095–1127), who had more than likely been cro ...

26 Hammel-Kiesow Segeberg Castle and in 1134, presumably from his court in Halberstadt, awarded certain privileges to the Gotlan ...

The Early Hanses 27 tradition of trade.47 Greater legal security for Lower German merchants, a shorter route to the Baltic Sea i ...

28 Hammel-Kiesow Swedes, Ölandians, Goths, Livs and all the peoples of the East. This exemp- tion was still documented in the fi ...

The Early Hanses 29 The Advance of Low German Merchants in the Baltic Region On the south Baltic coast, the advance of the merch ...

30 Hammel-Kiesow after their bloody clashes at an unnamed location, has been a point of contro- versy. At present, archeological ...

The Early Hanses 31 the treaty stipulates that merchants and emissaries had the right to sail to Novgorod, Germany, and Gotland ...