The third NOS-workshop of the series “The Hanse and the North” focuses on the role of fringes and margins in the Hanseatic world and interaction. The Hansa is normally defined as a closed system, build on privileges abroad and concentrated around itself. In this view trade and interaction with the others, the non-hanseatic, forego mostly in few focal points, mostly the huge market centres or the kontors. But in their hometowns the Hanseatic merchants were, especially also in Scandinavia and in the Baltic sea area, part of their regional trading-network, part of an environment which was not or not always build on “Hanseatic” privileges but structured by local developments and connections. Hanseatic merchants therefore operated on two levels at the same time the international, Hanseatic and privilege based and the regional one, connecting Hanseatic and non-hanseatic areas. This affected also a wide range of cultural and social exchanges, which were often intertwined with the trading networks.
What does the research on the geographical, economic, social and cultural fringes and margins add to our understanding of the Hanse in the past? How did the variety of exchanges, overlappings and mixtures of interaction manifest themselves in the economic, social and cultural networks of the Hanseatic world? What has been the role of such fluctuations and margins in its historiography? How did the hanseatic and non-hanseatic aspects of interaction manifest themselves in towns, networks and outside of them? What can we say about the concepts of otherness, assimilation and parallelity in such contexts?
Designed as a forum of exchange and conversation, the aim of the workshop is to discuss these questions as widely as possible from the point of view of all disciplines engaged in the study of the Hanse and the North.
For further information, contact the conference secretary Tapio Salminen (tapio.salminen@uta.fi).
NOS-HS “The Hansa in the North”, Workshop III, University of Tampere & Research Centre Trivium, 7–8 December, 2018.
The Hansa beyond the Hansa. Economic, Cultural and Social Exchanges at the Margins.
Programme
Friday 7 December, Pinni B, Lecture Hall 3107
9:00 Registration
9:30–11:30 Session 1:
Opening: Prof. Christian Krötzl, Prof. Carsten Jahnke.
Presentations:
Sofia Gustafsson, Senior Lecturer (University of Linköping):
”Late medieval Stockholm and the urban culture of northern Europe”
Anu Mänd, Senior Research Fellow (University of Tallinn):
”How did Hanseatic merchants decorate their houses?”
11:30–13:00 Lunch.
13:00–15:00 Session 2:
Anti Selart, Prof. (University of Tartu):
”Hanseatic trade and native traders in Livonia in the thirteenth century”
Gustavs Strenga, Postdoctoral Reseracher (University of Tallinn):
“Merchants vs. transport workers /Hanseatics vs. indigenous/Rich vs. poor. Ethnicity and social relationships between the elites and non-elites in the 15th and 16th century Riga”
Christian Manger, Doctoral Student (University of Amsterdam):
”Conflict Management in the Late Medieval Baltic: The cases of Lübeck, Stockholm and Reval (Tallinn)”
15:00–15:30 Coffee.
15:30–17:00 Session 3:
Oliver Blomqvist, PhD (Swedish National Archives, Diplomatarium):
”Low German-Scandinavian Language-mixture in Late Medieval Sources”
Christian Krötzl, Prof. (University of Tampere):
”The Hanse and its Saints – An Open Relation?”
Saturday 8 December, Pinni B, Lecture Hall 3107
9:30–11:30 Session 4:
Carsten Jahnke, Prof. (Saxo-Institute, University of Copenhagen):
“The vampiric hanseatics?” The Danish-Hanseatic trade in the Middle Ages”
Tuuli Heinonen & Elina Terävä, Doctoral Students (University of Helsinki):
”Archaeological Perspective on Uusimaa, a Northern Rural Hinterland of the Hansa”
Tapio Salminen, Research Fellow (University of Tampere):
”Marginal girls – girls from the margin? Finnish peasant women as workforce in medieval Livonian urban households”
11:30–13:00 Lunch.
13:00–14:30 Session 5:
Bart Holterman, Doctoral Student (German Maritime Museum):
”International networks in the 16th-century North Atlantic trade”
Ilkka Leskelä, Doctoral Student (University of Helsinki):
”’Finnish’ coastal entrepreneurs on ’hanseatic’ waters: The Schalm family ca. 1400-1530”
14:45–16:00 General discussion: NOS-HS Programme Workhsops I–III: Concluding remarks.
16.00 Closing and farewell