Hanseatic League

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the Hanseatic League — a powerful network of merchant guilds and market towns — dominated trade across almost 200 settlements in seven modern-day countries. But how did it function and manage to become so successful over such a vast region?

In this edition of Gone Medieval, Dr. Cat Jarman finds out more about the Hanse from Dr. Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz.

This episode was edited and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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1:33.2	Hello and welcome to Gone Medieval. I'm Dr Cat German. From the 12th century onwards
1:40.4	a powerful network of merchants known as the Hanser or more commonly the Hansiatic League
1:46.0	go to dominate trade across the northern and Baltic seas. But who were they? How were they
1:51.7	organised and how could they be quite so successful across a region that stretched from London in
1:56.8	the west to Novgorod in the east? To answer some of these questions I'm delighted to
2:02.0	her with me today. Dr Jostina Wolbsmanotsovic who is an associate professor of medieval history
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