Wim Blockmans - The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600: Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy

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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF MARITIME TRADE AROUND EUROPE 13001600

The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 13001600 explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas. Maritime trade routes connected diverse geographical and cultural spheres, contributing to a more integrated Europe in both cultural and material terms. This volume explores networks economic functions alongside their intercultural exchanges, contacts and practical arrangements in ports on the European coasts.

The collection takes as its central question how shippers and merchants were able to connect regional and interregional trade circuits around and beyond Europe in the late medieval period. It is divided into four parts, with chapters in Part I looking across broad themes such as ships and sailing routes, maritime law, financial linkages and linguistic exchanges. In the following parts into the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic and North Seas contributors present case studies addressing themes including conflict resolution, relations between different types of main ports and their hinterland, the local institutional arrangements supporting maritime trade, and the advantages and challenges of locations around the continent. The volume concludes with a summary that points to the extraterritorial character of trading systems during this fascinating period of expansion.

Drawing together an international team of contributors, The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe is a vital contribution to the study of maritime history and the history of trade. It is essential reading for students and scholars in these fields.

Wim Blockmans is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Leiden. His previous publications include Introduction to Medieval Europe, 2nd edition, with Peter Hoppenbrouwers (2014).

Mikhail Krom is Professor of Comparative Studies in History at the European University at St Petersburg.

Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz is Assistant Professor in Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam.

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THE ROUTLEDGE
HANDBOOK OF MARITIME
TRADE AROUND EUROPE
13001600

Edited by Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom
and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz

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First published 2017
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Names: Blockmans, Wim, 1945- editor. | Krom, M. M. (Mikhail Markovich),

editor. | Wubs-Mrozewicz, Justyna, 1976- editor.

Title: The Routledge handbook of maritime trade around Europe 1300-1600 / edited by Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz.

Other titles: Handbook of maritime trade around Europe 1300-1600

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016032747| ISBN 9781315278575 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138899506

(hardback : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: EuropeCommerceHistory.

Classification: LCC HF3495 .R68 2017 | DDC 382.094dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016032747

ISBN: 978-1-138-89950-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-27857-5 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo Std
by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK

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Cover illustration: Allegory of Danzig Trade , by Isaac van den Blocke. See further, . Gdask History Museum, Main City Hall.

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This project has come a long way before materializing in the present volume. Its genealogy can be traced back to the conference The Republican Tradition: From the Hanseatic League to the Era of the Enlightenment held in December 2012 at the European University at St Petersburg (EUSP) under the auspices of the Res Publica Research Centre led by the EUSP Rector, Professor Oleg Kharkhordin. It was there that two of the three future editors met for the first time, and a number of the contributions to this collection originated from the 2012 conference papers.

In the course of further discussions, the project, which was initially titled Merchants World, gradually took shape. It took on its present title in 2014; that same year, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz joined Wim Blockmans and Mikhail Krom and shared editorial responsibilities. We are happy that scholars from many European countries, the United States and Canada have accepted our invitations and invested their energy, expertise and friendly spirits in this collective enterprise.

In June 2015 we met at a workshop, again hosted by the European University at St Petersburg, to discuss the first drafts of chapters and to work out guidelines for their further elaboration. All the contributors, including those who were not able to attend the 2015 workshop, collaborated with great enthusiasm and willingly adapted their drafts to enhance the volumes coherence. The editors would like to express their special gratitude to Professor Richard W. Unger (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), the minence grise of maritime history, who graciously advised them with regard to the Introduction and the concluding chapter.

We wish to thank the European University at St Petersburg for its hospitality and generous support. We willingly acknowledge the active involvement of the EUSP Research Centre Res Publica, which is currently supported by the Bank Otkrytie Financial Corporation, in the realization of our project from its very beginning till the end. We are also most grateful to institutions that made our meeting at the EUSP possible, including the Russian Federal State Company Goznak, the Netherlands Institute in St Petersburg and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).