> How did the Hanseatic League affect mediaeval European trade?
Strongly recommend a visit to Lübeck (and Hamburg, and Hanseatic black sheep Bremen). Besides the beautiful brick architecture and tasty Marzipan, Lübeck is full of Hanseatic history and is home to the European Hansemuseum (https://www.hansemuseum.eu/en/). One of the best museums I've ever been to. It gives a lot of details about how the Hanseatic League worked and what exactly was being traded and with whom . I've never seen a museum with so many statistics before. It's like walking around an economics textbook (in a fun way).
They have a cool customised tour feature where you pick a city-of-interest from a list (including Edinburgh) and a special interest (e.g. 'shipbuilding'), and as you go through the museum you scan a card which makes the exhibits give special information about your chosen topics.
And if you do go to Hamburg, don't miss Miniatur Wunderland.
the lectures are available in a book, if that's an consolation
Indeed! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Redress-Poetry-Oxford-Lectures/dp/0571175627
Thank you gents!
> How did the Hanseatic League affect mediaeval European trade?
Strongly recommend a visit to Lübeck (and Hamburg, and Hanseatic black sheep Bremen). Besides the beautiful brick architecture and tasty Marzipan, Lübeck is full of Hanseatic history and is home to the European Hansemuseum (https://www.hansemuseum.eu/en/). One of the best museums I've ever been to. It gives a lot of details about how the Hanseatic League worked and what exactly was being traded and with whom . I've never seen a museum with so many statistics before. It's like walking around an economics textbook (in a fun way).
They have a cool customised tour feature where you pick a city-of-interest from a list (including Edinburgh) and a special interest (e.g. 'shipbuilding'), and as you go through the museum you scan a card which makes the exhibits give special information about your chosen topics.
And if you do go to Hamburg, don't miss Miniatur Wunderland.