"The Companion to the Hanseatic League discusses the importance of the Hanseatic League for the social and economic history of pre-modern northern Europe. Established already as early as the twelfth century, the towns that formed the Hanseatic League created an important network of commerce...

Überblickswerk, welches die Entwicklung und soziale Organisation des Handwerks vom 11. bis zum ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert unter Berücksichtigung von Wirtschafts- und Technikgeschichte europaweit behandelt. Anschaulich geschrieben, teilweise durch Illustrationen und tabellarische Aufzählungen...

"In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would...