Ep. 119: The Hanseatic League - 14th century Politics -What is the Hanse?

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 the English and the Hansa had escalated, ships were captured, and people got killed. He wanted to know who to negotiate with and in particular, who could sign a binding agreement that would put an end to this.
The answer he got was not very satisfactory....
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The music for the show is Flute Sonata in E-flat major, H.545 by Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach (or some claim it as BWV 1031 Johann Sebastian Bach) performed and arranged by Michel Rondeau (windrep.org/Michel_Rondeau) under Common Creative Licence 3.0 (imslp.org/wiki/Flute_Sonata_in_E-flat_major%2C…).
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So far I have:
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The Empire in the 15th century (historyofthegermans.com/15thcentury)
The Fall and Rise of the Habsburgs (historyofthegermans.com/habsburg)
And finally, bibliography. I would like to add a few works
to our usual list, in particular:
Jahnke, (reclam.shop/detail/978-3-15-019206-1/Jahnke__C…)
Carsten: Die Hanse | Reclam Verlag (reclam.shop/detail/978-3-15-019206-1/Jahnke__C…)
Jahnke, Carsten: Netzwerke in Handel und Kommunikation an
der Wende vom 15. zum 16. Jahrhundert am Beispiel zweier Revaler Kaufleute. Netzwerke (hansischergeschichtsverein.de/file/jahnke_2019…)
(hansischergeschichtsverein.de) (hansischergeschichtsverein.de/file/jahnke_2019…)
Justyna (cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarte…)
Wubs-Mrozewicz and Stuart Jenks, eds. The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern (cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarte…)
Europe. The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400–1700 AD: (cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarte…)
Peoples, Economies and Culture 60. Leiden: Brill, 2013. vi + 296 pp. $171. (cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarte…)
ISBN: 978-90-04-21252-7. | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core (cambridge.org/core/journals/renaissance-quarte…)
The (wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners/2020-w…)
Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans The Boundless Sea (wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners/2020-w…)
(wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk) (wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners/2020-w…)

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