England and the German Hanse, 1157-1611: a study of their trade and commercial diplomacy

The German Hanse was the most successful and most far-flung trade association that existed in medieval and early-modern Europe. Inevitably it appears prominently in every general study of trade, sometimes under the label of 'the Hanseatic League'. This, however, is the first study to be de...

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Main Author: Lloyd, T. H. 1937- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1992
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Summary:The German Hanse was the most successful and most far-flung trade association that existed in medieval and early-modern Europe. Inevitably it appears prominently in every general study of trade, sometimes under the label of 'the Hanseatic League'. This, however, is the first study to be devoted to relations between the Hanse and England throughout the entire period of their contact, which lasted for some 500 years. The composition of trade is analysed, and the fluctuations in its volume and value are reconstructed from primary sources, chiefly customs accounts. But trade was often made possible only by intensive political and diplomatic bargaining between the two sides, sometimes at the level of merchant and merchant, at other times between the English government and the Hanse diet, the highest authority within the German organisation. This aspect of the relationship is explored in equal detail
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Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 401 pages)
ISBN:9780511560279
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511560279

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