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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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13th-century Mongol sabre discovered in Russia

Medievalists.net — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:56:58 +0000

While Russian archaeologists were conducting a routine examination of an old sabre unearthed seven years ago in Yaroslavl, they discovered that the weapon dates back to the 13th century, making it to be oldest crucible steel weapon in East Europe.

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Slaves, Money Lenders, and Prisoner Guards: The Jews and the Trade in Slaves and Captives in the Crimean Khanate

Medievalists.net — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:50:33 +0000

Trade in slaves and captives was one of the most important (if not the most important) sources of income of the Crimean Khanate in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

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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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Why did Medieval Slave Traders go to Finland?

Medievalists.net — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:01:47 +0000

The demand for blonde girls and boys was so lucrative that slave traders would hunt for these people as far away as northern Finland, a recent study finds.

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Slavic and Greek-Roman Mythology, Comparative Mythology

Medievalists.net — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:21:59 +0000

In this paper I will present a number of similarities between Greek and Roman deities and the Slavic ones, basing my research as much as possible on the information provided by an etymological analysis, a description of the deity as well as rituals, offerings, sacrifices and celebrations dedicated to the deities.

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Bjarmaland and interaction in the North of Europe from the Viking Age until the Early Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 10:54:10 +0000

This article intends to look at interaction in the very north of early medi- eval Europe with Bjarmaland as a starting point. After a short introduction to sources and historiography about Bjarmaland, the main content of the sources will be shortly discussed in order to establish what kind of informa- tion the written sources have to offer.

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The Crimean Tatars and their Russian-Captive Slaves

Medievalists.net — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:38:22 +0000

The Russian population on the southern border with the Crimean Tatars was continuously exposed to the dangers of Crimean raider bands, which were usually formed to attack Russian permanent settlements, capture people and sell them to slave-traders, or to give them back to Russia for ransom monies.

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Struggle for East-European Empire 1400 – 1700 : The Crimean Khanate, Ottomans and the Rise of the Russian Empire

Medievalists.net — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:54:06 +0000

By the middle of the 15th century, in Eastern Europe instead of one dominant imperial power there were newly rising states which eventually came to compete for supremacy over the whole region

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The Crimea on the Map of South Sarmatia by Bernard Wapowski

Medievalists.net — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:45:20 +0000

The purpose of the present article is publication and analysis of the content of the map of the Crimea, practically unknown in Ukraine, which is a part of the map of the South Sarmatia of 1526 by 'the father of the Polish Cartography' Bernard Wapowski.

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