The Fish Lands : : German trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroe Islands in the late 15th and 16th Century /

The Fish Lands : : German trade with Iceland, Shetland and the Faroe Islands in the late 15th and 16th Century / / Bart Holterman.

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The late medieval German trade with the North Atlantic islands, in the margins of the Hanseatic trade network, has received only limited scholarly attention. Merchants from predominantly Hamburg and Bremen established direct trade relations with these islands in the late 15th century, and managed to...

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Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
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Holterman, Bart,
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Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (XVII, 638 p.) :; dreiseitige Klappkarte
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Economic background: Traded commodities
  • 3. Political background: The Hanse, urban centres, and foreign authorities
  • 4. Relations between German merchants and islanders in the North Atlantic
  • 5. Harbours and trading places
  • 6. Overview of harbours in Iceland
  • 7. The organisation of the North Atlantic trade
  • 8. Summary and conclusion
  • 9. Deutsche Zusammenfassung
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix A: Licences issued for Icelandic harbours
  • Appendix B: Faroese monopoly holders
  • Appendix C: North Atlantic merchants in Hamburg
  • Appendix D: North Atlantic merchants from Bremen in the sixteenth century
  • Appendix E: Overview of the donation register of the Confraternity of St Anne of the Iceland Merchants, Hamburg (online material)
  • Register of persons and places

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