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The Hanseatic League [a] was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe.
- Establishment of The League
- Early Years
- The League at Its Height
- Waning Power
- Conclusion
The Hanseatic League grew out of the organization known as the medieval guild. The medieval social paradigm recognized three classes – noble, priest, and peasant – and the feudal system dictated that the noble could charge whatever they pleased in taxes on the peasant class which included merchants and artisans. The medieval guild was formed to pro...
Precisely how early the league was formed is unknown but it was most likely during the reign of Henry the Lion, who mandated laws for the protection of foreign traders in the Baltic region, specifically those from Gotland. Henry's laws encouraged freer trade but may have also threatened the security of the merchants of northern Germany. Whenever th...
The league provided much-needed protection for its members not only from hostile political rivals but from robbery by thieves on land or at sea. Crime in the middle ages was rampant owing to the various governments' inability – or unwillingness – to apprehend and prosecute criminals. Scholar Carolly Erikson writes: A large aspect of this problem wa...
As the league was being shut out of its international markets, Europe, on the whole, was suffering an economic depression which was only getting worse. The Black Deathof 1348-1349 CE had killed almost half the population of Europe resulting in a severe labor shortage which affected harvesting crops, transporting goods, and every other aspect associ...
The time of the league had passed and it continued to decline throughout the 15th century CE as more and more members left and the power of local nobility grew stronger. Throughout the 16th century CE, the league tried to reassert itself and reform, but it was now working within a different political and social paradigm and none of its strategies w...
- Joshua J. Mark
24 de mai. de 2024 · Hanseatic League, organization founded by north German towns and German merchant communities abroad to protect their mutual trading interests. The league dominated commercial activity in northern Europe from the 13th to the 15th century.
A Liga Hanseática (em Alto alemão, die Hanse, que significa "banda" ou "tropa") foi uma aliança de cidades mercantis do Mar do Norte e do Mar Báltico — alemãs ou de influência alemã — que estabeleceu e manteve um monopólio comercial sobre quase todo norte da Europa e Báltico, em fins da Idade Média e começo da Idade Moderna (entre os séculos XII...
A “ Liga Hanseática ” ou “ Hansa Germânica ” (em alemão, " Die Hanse ") foi uma organização político-econômica criada em finais do século XII na Alemanha. Era representada pela aliança entre as cidades livres mercantis do norte europeu, sobretudo, próximas ao Mar do Norte e Mar Báltico, ou seja, das rotas comerciais.
10 de mai. de 2010 · The Hanseatic League (or Hansa), the collective association of ports along the southern Baltic and North Sea coasts that developed in the middle of the 12th century, was one of the key economic and political organizations of medieval and Renaissance Europe.
Hanseatic League , or Hansa , (from German Hanse, “association”) Organization founded in the late medieval period by northern German towns and merchant communities to protect their trading interests.
