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‘Pirates, robbers and other malefactors’: The role played by violence at sea in relations between England and the Hanse towns, 1385 – 1420

Medievalists.net — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 19:50:52 +0000

This thesis will argue that the impact of specific phenomena, particularly the activities of the Vitalienbrüder, on Anglo-Hanseatic relations has been not only neglected but misunderstood, and that attention to English sources can help flesh out our understanding of the Vitalienbrüder’s history.

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Fair Trade?: A Look at the Hanseatic League

Medievalists.net — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:21:21 +0000

In the 14th century, an ongoing feud ensued between the Hanseatic League and non-Hanse merchants. Here's a quick look at the rise and fall of the one of the most powerful organizations of the Late Middle Ages.

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A peasant is a peasant, is a peasant? : Medieval Maritime Peasant Lives

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:08:25 +0000

A peasant is a peasant, is a peasant...or is s/he? Was the life of a peasant who lived in the coastal regions of England the same as that of the peasant who made his livelihood toiling on the land for his local lord?

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Skirts and Politics: The Cistercian Monastery of Harvestehude and the Hamburg City Council

Medievalists.net — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:30:40 +0000

In 1482, Catharina Arndes lifted up her skirts in front of the archbishop’s chaplain. She was a respectable townswoman from Hamburg, and her action was carried out in defense of the Cistercian monastery of Harvestehude which was close to the city and where several of Catharina’s nieces lived as nuns.

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Saints’ Cults in Medieval Livonia

Medievalists.net — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 23:06:50 +0000

Saints' cults played a crucial role in medieval society. Although we know very little about the beliefs and rituals of the indigenous peoples of Livonia, either before or after the thirteenth-century conquest, we may assume that the process of Christianization must have caused major changes in their religious practices.

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England’s First Attempt to Break the Commercial Monopoly of the Hanseatic League, 1377-1380

Medievalists.net — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:47:17 +0000

During the second half of the fourteenth century English traders first seriously threatened the Hanseatic League's commercial monopoly in the Baltic. The League, attempting to defendits monopoly, treated the English unjustly,where upon in 1377 the English Parliament rescinded the charter that granted the League important concessions and privileges in its English trade.

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Trading Networks, Monopoly and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Europe: an Agent-Based Simulation of Early Hanseatic Trade

Medievalists.net — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 02:06:03 +0000

Little is known, however, on the emergence of this Hanseatic trading system in the high Middle Ages, a period characterised by a significant migration into the Baltic region and the foundation of numerous towns alongside the Baltic sea’s southern shore.

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Finland, Tallinn and the Hanseatic League: Foreign Trade and the Orientation of Roads in Medieval Finland

Medievalists.net — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:35:19 +0000

What was the role of Finland in the trade of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages? Thisquestion has been widely discussed in Finnish history since 1882, when J.W. Ruuth publishedhis study on the relationship between Finland and the Hanse before 1435.

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Adventures far from home: Hanseatic trade with the Faroe Islands

Medievalists.net — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 05:48:48 +0000

he voyage to Iceland, now a major destina- tion, took about four weeks (gardiner & mehler 2007, 403; Krause 2010, 150). The Faroe Islands are situated more or less in the middle of that distance and provided a fine stop-over. The islands were an additional market for their trade business and in case of storms offered a safe and most welcome shelter.

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Aspects of the Anglo-Hanseatic conflict in the fifteenth century

Medievalists.net — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:28:55 +0000

The German Hanse, whose rise and decline spanned almost four centuries, was a rather unique institution in late medieval Europe.

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