Hanza

Project for an opening spread (introduction and table off contents) for the book project entitled "Medieval town. Manual" about functioning of city in Middle Ages. Shows the entire range of the Hanseatic League - the pre European Union jointure of major European cities from XV up to XVII century.

Hanza

Illustration / spread about Hanseatic League for the book project "Medieval town. Manual".

Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns. It dominated Baltic maritime trade (1400–1800) along the coast of Northern Europe. It stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages and early modern period. Hansa, was the Middle Low German word for a convoy, and this word was applied to bands of merchants traveling between the Hanseatic cities whether by land or by sea.

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