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The Hanseatic League (1143-1669) - An Interview with Carsten Jahnke
Episode 1
Professor Carsten Jahnke, one of the leading historians on the Hanse has kindly granted us an interview where we discuss how the Hanse network functi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 127: The Hanseatic League (1143-1669) - The Art and Culture of the Hanse
Episode 127
Our history of the Hanse has come to an end, not with a bang but with a whimper. Of the things that have remained we have already talked a lot, the i…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 126: A Brief History of Bremen
Episode 126
Bremen was geographically and politically quite different from the other cities, ploughing its own furrow. In response the other Hansards did not tru…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 125: The Rise of Hamburg in the 16th century and beyond
Episode 125
The last two episodes may have left you with a sense of gloom and foreboding about the great Hanseatic cities. But here is the counterintuitive fact,…
3 years ago
Ep. 124: The Hanseatic League - Decline and Fall (Part 2) - Jürgen Wullenwever's and Lübeck's last stand
Episode 124
1531-1535, a period of just 4 years is enough to capsize Lübeck’s position as the diplomatic heart of the Baltic Sea, general secretary of the Hanse,…
3 years ago
Ep. 123: The Hanseatic League - Decline and Fall (Part 1)
Episode 123
1474-1531 was a time of immense change and upheaval for the Hanseatic League, and not just for them. The Habsburg empire is bedded into being, Englan…
3 years ago
Ep. 122: The Hanseatic League - 15th century Politics - Calamitous Victories
Episode 122
In 1435 the Hanse can look back at a string of successes. Another war with Denmark won, the patrician regime in Lübeck and elsewhere restored, confli…
3 years ago
Ep. 121: The Hanseatic League - 15th century Politics -A Constitutional Crisis
Episode 121
By the end of the 14th century the Hanse is at the top of its game. The Cologne Confederation had shown that they could act in unison if the need ari…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 120: The Hanseatic League (1143-1669) - Economics - Money, Money, Money
Episode 120
This was supposed to be an episode where we talk about the challenges the Hanse was facing after the victory over the Danes and the Peace of Stralsun…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 119: The Hanseatic League - 14th century Politics -What is the Hanse?
Episode 119
That was the question king Edward IV asked the representatives of the Steelyard in 1469. And he had a good reason to ask, because tensions between th…
3 years, 1 month ago