Helen Zimmern tells the history of the Hanseatic League, the confederation of German trading towns led by Lübeck that dominated commerce on the Baltic and North Sea for centuries. She describes its patrician governments, its counting-houses in London, Bergen, Bruges and Novgorod, its wars with Denmark and pirates, and its slow decline.
A readable Story of the Nations volume on one of medieval Europe’s great commercial powers. Download the free EPUB.