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When they tell the story of the origins of financial instruments and markets, most financial historians begin in the Middle East, and go via the Mediterranean to the Northwest of Europe. Along the way financial instruments were... more
History of relations between Novgorod and the Hansa
La ciudad de Lübeck fue fundada a mediados del s. XII por el Duque de Sajonia, Enrique III el León. Gracias a su posición estratégica entre los ríos Trave y Wakenitz, los privilegios concedidos, primero por el Duque y más tarde por el... more
En el anterior artículo, vimos como Lübeck tras ser fundada y dotada de privilegios, por Enrique III el León, Duque de Sajonia consigue expandirse diplomática y comercialmente hasta formar la llamada Liga Hanseática. Este articulo tiene... more
There were only a few countries whose nobility did not take part in the campaigns of the Teutonic Order against the Lithuanians (Reisen). The popularity of these military actions reached its zenith in the second half of the fourteenth... more
Статья посвящена исследованию ряда важнейших аспектов истории новгородского веча XI-XV вв. С привлечением мало- или почти не привлекавшихся для изучения проблемы ганзейских документов на средненижненемецком языке рассматриваются... more
Until today scholars tend to denote every individual use of force at sea as „piracy“. In contrast, I want to advocate a general revision of our measures of understanding force and violence in pre-modern maritime history. By methodological... more
This article examines the cultural and social dynamics of a multi-ethnic medieval town. Taking the lower town of Tallinn as a case study, this paper identifies the major urban ethnic groups living in the town and discusses their... more
В статье представлены параллельные (на средненижненемецком и русском языках) версии послания в Новгород, составленных в Ревеле в 1425 г. Внимание привлекла идиома, не характерная для обычного формульного состава средневековых официаль-... more
https://www.fcede.es/site/es/libros/detalles.aspx?id_libro=19489#fragmentos El estudio de los escasos regímenes republicanos existentes en la Europa Moderna ha oscilado entre el protagonismo concedido a estos entramados políticos de... more
In Norway, pottery from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries is always imported and mostly concentrated in the urban centres. The few finds of pottery from this period in a non-urban context can, however, shed light on the spreading of... more
The legal Statutes of the German merchants' yard in Novgorod the Great (Saint Peter's yard, in German Peterhof) – the foundation of Hanseatic trade in Russia during the 12th-16th centuries – are presented here in three pivotal versions... more
Medieval research in Estonia before the 1990s concentrated mainly on the history of peasants and agriculture. The new generation of historians who generally studied at the University of Tartu in the 1980s and 1990s substantially changed... more
Este trabajo estudia la expresión latina Nauigare necesse est; uiuere non est necesse. En primer lugar, se intenta establecer su tradición desde la primera aparición de la cita en el historiador Plutarco –quien la atribuye a Pompeyo–,... more
Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050–1450 explores the varied uses of silver and gold in the Baltic Sea zone during the medieval period. Ten original contributions examine coins and currencies, trade, economy, and... more
W wyniku realizacji postanowień traktatu pokojowego kończącego wojnę trzynastoletnią między zakonem niemieckim a wspieranym przez stany pruskie Królestwem Polskim dotychczasowe władztwo zakonne w Prusach podzielone zostało na dwie... more
The sea as perceived in the writings of the Gdańsk shipmaster Caspar Weinreich, 1461–1496 The records made by the Gdańsk shipmaster Caspar Weinreich, though they survive in vestigial form, reveal a fairly consistent view of the world as... more
The author studies social and political conditions that defined the process of social disciplining in the Baltic towns. The aim of the text is to indicate whether a common, Hanseatic model of social disciplining was prevalent in the whole... more
The article is devoted to a study of Novgorodian social terms mentioned in the Opasnaia Gramota, a charter which secured the inviolability of ambassadors during their stays abroad; the charter dates from 1472. There are two extant... more
This article argues that the dialect of the Norwegian city of Bergen lost the feminine gender already in the 13th or 14th century due to influence from the Middle Low German quantity system: Because Middle Low German, spoken in Bergen by... more
In Norway, pottery from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries is always imported and mostly concentrated in the urban centres. The few finds of pottery from this period in a non-urban context can, however, shed light on the spreading of... more
As trust dwindles in public institutions, special economic zones and free cities will have an opportunity to introduce billions of people to new systems of transparent and accountable governance. Thousands of actual experiments in... more