A Companion to the Hanseatic League

152 Burkhardt from 1416, the Hanseatic merchants “played” with Russian women.72 In 1449, the merchants in London issued an artic ...

Kontors and Outposts 153 The Role of the Kontors in the Organization of Hanseatic Trade Hanseatic trade was much more than tradi ...

154 Burkhardt cereals, flour, malt, beer, salt, metal, fabric, and other products which were not sellable in their home regions. ...

Kontors and Outposts 155 Another function of the kontors was more cultural. The exchange of ideas and thoughts was one part of t ...

156 Burkhardt 1280 and 1457.78 Also, in Novgorod, local conflicts led to boycott, unrest, and violence.79 In the fifteenth centu ...

Kontors and Outposts 157 One More Kontor? When we talk about Hanseatic kontors and outposts, we usually have four kon- tors in m ...

158 Burkhardt Sea, they cut off a large area that asked for goods from the Scania fairs. This forced others, especially Hollande ...

Kontors and Outposts 159 The outposts in Lisbon and the French towns La Rochelle, Bourgneuf, Bordeaux, and Nantes were used as e ...

160 Burkhardt in the twelfth century. They used to come during the winter with sledges from the mouth of the river Düna,89 which ...

Kontors and Outposts 161 Conclusion Kontors and outposts were one important piece in the Hanseatic trading sys- tem. A huge part ...

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Social Networks 163 used in the social sciences and in history. Although because of this popularity it appears to be a well-defi ...

164 Ewert and Selzer the study of Wolfgang Reinhard5 on the entanglement of Roman city elites in the sixteenth and seventeenth c ...

Social Networks 165 important to know the following basic differentiations concerning scope and methodology made within social n ...

166 Ewert and Selzer used to analyze councilors and mayors of different Hanseatic towns, but even these people were connected by ...

Social Networks 167 only a century almost every important Hanseatic town along or near the south- ern Baltic shore had been foun ...

168 Ewert and Selzer often not taken serious enough, provides important and lucid insights into this kinship-based interweaving ...

Social Networks 169 The kinship-based relations between Hansards and what they meant to the structure and organization of trade ...

170 Ewert and Selzer Dietrich W. Poeck’s demonstrate how important family bonds and other infor- mal connections between the mem ...

Social Networks 171 sources makes these documents attractive to historians. Men and women liv- ing in Lübeck—rich merchants, cra ...