Ep. 120: The Hanseatic League (1143-1669) - Economics - Money, Money, Money

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 Stralsund. But that is not to be. Listeners Mehmet and Nina pointed out a few gaps in what I had been talking about last week and now these need to be filled.
It is all good talking about the trading network and the flow of goods across the Baltic and northern Germany. But what about the opposing flow, the flow of money? How do the Merchants get paid? How can they pay for all the goods they, or their agents, are buying way down in Flanders and England? How do they cope with the sometimes erratic monetary policies of late medieval rulers?
After all, it is money that makes the world go round!
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This episode relied heavily on:
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…)
Stuart Jenks: War (jstor.org/stable/47bb22c9-d7c3-3858-b5fd-6be31…) die Hanse kreditfeindlich? on JSTOR (jstor.org/stable/47bb22c9-d7c3-3858-b5fd-6be31…)
Historical (tallinn.ee/en/news/historical-documents-hansea….) documents of Hanseatic League added to UNESCO archival heritage list | Tallinn (tallinn.ee/en/news/historical-documents-hansea….)

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