A Companion to the Hanseatic League

132 Burkhardt In Novgorod, the kontor consisted of two parts: a “beachyard” located at the shores of the river Volchow, and the ...

Kontors and Outposts 133 Novgorod, German boys lived with farmers to learn the Russian language; and in Bergen, accounts of pros ...

134 Burkhardt or in other words “unfancy.” One didn’t travel there for culture, parading, or amusement, reasons that made London ...

Kontors and Outposts 135 being appointed to an honorable position, it meant that the individual mer- chant would deal with the h ...

136 Burkhardt Novgorod Schra. The Schra was the name of the statutes aof the kontor in Novgorod. All four kontors had their stat ...

Kontors and Outposts 137 be punished with fines, or, in very serious cases, with the exclusion from the kontor and its privilege ...

138 Burkhardt the same building resided a hall of Cologne merchants and a hall of Germans,15 who were probably merchants from ot ...

Kontors and Outposts 139 groups. This structure survived until 1486, when the number of aldermen was reduced to three and the de ...

140 Burkhardt Hanseatic merchants in Bruges. The golden age of Bruges as the trading center in Flanders was already history in t ...

Kontors and Outposts 141 The kontor of Novgorod was run by a council of aldermen and deputies as well. Here, however, the alderm ...

142 Burkhardt Trade at the Kontors All four Hanseatic kontors were situated at the edges of what was the core area of Hanseatic ...

Kontors and Outposts 143 Bruges offered by far the most exotic and varied selection of trade goods in the region. The Hansards b ...

144 Burkhardt town, Bergen. The fish was caught in the northern Norwegian areas, primar- ily at the islands Vesterålen and Lofot ...

Kontors and Outposts 145 town when the water was frozen. Furthermore it was forbidden to import goods that valued at more than 1 ...

146 Burkhardt a merchant’s knowledge. All Hansards profited from this exchange, following the old wisdom that only a well-inform ...

Kontors and Outposts 147 of one case of death caused by the plays during the Late Middle Ages. There is a lot of speculation abo ...

148 Burkhardt would never have received in their home villages.47 They were taught reading, writing, calculating, and business k ...

Kontors and Outposts 149 obtained in the statutes. Though there were many merchants at the kontors in the thirteenth and fourtee ...

150 Burkhardt had to be done. Sometimes these led to disturbances and had to be regulated in the statutes. In Novgorod fistfight ...

Kontors and Outposts 151 Fire protection was another big issue. At the kontor in Bergen, all houses were built of timber. The on ...