Author: David Nicolle
Forces of the Hanseatic League: 13th-15th Centuries
Osprey Publishing
Osprey Men-at-Arms 494
ISBN: 1782007792
2014
Format: PDF (e-book)
Pages: 50
Size: 3 Mb
Language: English
The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbours, which eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield. The League was formed to protect the economic and political interests of member cities throughout a vast and complex trading network. The League continued to operate well into the 17th century, but its golden age was between c.1200 and c.1500; thereafter it failed to take full advantage of the wave of maritime exploration to the west, south and east of Europe.
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