The late medieval and early modern Hanse as an institution of conflict management

Wubs‐Mrozewicz, Justyna

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“…outside of court (the legal phrase was 'through friendship or law', if extrajudicial means failed, see Cordes, 2015). I have argued elsewhere that efficient conflict management within the Hanse was the added value of being a member of this organisation (Wubs-Mrozewicz, 2017). The trust (often referred to as hope) that a partner city would put inter-Hanseatic matters high on their municipal agenda can also be classified here.…”

Section: Examples From Premodern Trade Cities and Religious Communities In Europe And Outsidementioning

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The concept of language of trust and trustworthiness: (Why) history matters

Wubs‐Mrozewicz

2019

Journal of Trust Research

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This paper puts forward the argument that the concept of the language of trust and trustworthiness can be a useful way of understanding what trust means in specific situations. This concept refers to linguistic devicesverbal and non-verbalwhich purposefully convey trust and create a foundation for continuing or improving relations. The concept has been developed based on research into relations between premodern merchants and their urban governments. In this context, the language of trust has emerged from historical sources as a tool which was used with great skill. By studying the form, the functions and the content of the language of trust in a concrete setting, contemporary or historical, we can grasp what can constitute the basis for trust and trustworthiness. The second argument proposed here is that, by pointing to the foundations of trust, the language of trust reveals the core values of an individual, a group or a society at a given time and place.

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Section: Examples From Premodern Trade Cities and Religious Communities In Europe And Outsidementioning

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The concept of language of trust and trustworthiness: (Why) history matters

Wubs‐Mrozewicz

2019

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“…Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz has for example underscored the role of the Hanse as an institution for conflict management. 88 Although not its primary focus of the current work, this line of scholarly thinking does inform the present study.…”

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1. Introduction

2020

The Fish Lands

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Once upon a time, a skipper from Bremen died and was buried in a land far away from home. Nowadays, if one wants to visit his grave on the island of Unst in northern Shetland, one has to take a small gravel road across a barren moory landscape where nothing seems to live but sheep and the occasional marsh bird. At the end of the path, one reaches a secluded bay where the grey waves and the rain torture the sands of the beach, and out of the fog appears a ruined medieval chapel with a graveyard around it. Inside the roofless chapel are a number of ancient gravestones (Figure 1.1), their texts made almost unreadable by lichen that has grown over the words and centuries of rain and salty sea wind. In a corner lies a grave slab, on which one can discern, with great difficulty, the following: "Here lies the honourable Segebad Detken, citizen and merchant from Bremen, who has traded in this country for 52 years. In 1573 on August 20, he passed away in Our Lord. God have mercy on his soul". 1 Of course, the story above is embellished to mimic the feel of a nineteenthcentury Gothic novel. The purpose is to emphasise the otherness, the mysterious nature, and the physical remoteness of the North Atlantic islands, as seen from the European continent. Some of the German merchants who sailed here in the late medieval and early modern period fostered such an image of the place as well. Gories Peerse, a skipper and merchant from Hamburg, started his poem "About Iceland" ("Van Ysslandt", 1561) with the following lines: There is a land that lies Northwest in the sea, from the German lands, as they say about four hundred miles or more away Iceland is its right name. It is adventurous because of frost, rain, wind, and snow and in addition its exceptionally high mountains. There grows no grass except in the valleys. 2 1 George MacDonald, "More Shetland Tombstones", Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 69 (1934): 27-36. "HIR LIGHT DER EHRSAME / SEGEBAD DETKEN BVRGER / VND KAUFFHANDELER ZU / BREMEN [HE] HETT IN DISEN / LANDE SINE HANDELING / GEBRUCKET 52 IAHR / IST [ANNO 15..] DEN / 20 AUGUSTI SELIGHT / IN UNSEN HERN ENT / SCHLAPEN DER SEELE GODT GNEDIGH IST." MacDonald assumed that Detken died in 1573; see Appendix D. 2 "Dar licht ein Landt Nordwest yn der See, / Vam Dudtschen Lande, so men secht, / Veer hundert Myle ummetrendt efft mehr, / Ysslandt so ys syn Name recht. / Dat ys eventurlick van Frost, Regen, Windt und Schnee, / Dartho van ungehuren Bergen aver allen, / Dar wasset neen Gras sunder yn den Dalen." Wilhelm Seelmann, "Gories Peerse's Gedicht Van Island", Jahrbuch des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung 9 (1883): 116.

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“…A third approach concerns legal pluralism, a term that refers to numerous overlapping and competing norms, jurisdictions and forums which was characteristic for medieval and early modern Europe (Cordes & Höhn, 2018;Fink, 2011Fink, , 2012Koch et al, 2022). In this connection, the Hanse has been called an institution of conflict management (Wubs-Mrozewicz, 2017). The study of how Hanse merchants and companies trading over long distances dealt with conflicts are important for the understanding of conflict resolution and management among premodern (long-distance) traders in general.…”

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“…There does not seem to have been a tendency among Hanse institutions or organizations to press for mediation or arbitration among conflicting parties (Höhn, 2021a, p. 204; comp. Wubs‐Mrozewicz, 2017, pp. 66–67).…”

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History of the Hanse: Construction and deconstruction

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2024

History Compass

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This article explores 150 years of historiography of the Hanse, the premodern trade network of mainly Low German merchants and their towns. It focusses on the construction of its infrastructure (the Hanseatic History Association, its source publications and its journal) and on the deconstruction of viewing the history of the Hanse in terms of its rise, greatness and fall. Instead, it looks at three different ways to grasp and understand the Hanse: (1) The dynamics of the so‐called “formative” period, (2) The formalization of the Hanse, and (3) Recent critical re‐evaluations of the main source editions of the Hanse, and the use of discourse or political communication at the so‐called Hanse diets, the meetings of Hanse towns. Finally, the relevance of the Hanse for wider historical debates and its use for present‐day purposes is discussed.

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The late medieval and early modern Hanse as an institution of conflict management

Cited by 12 publications

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The concept of language of trust and trustworthiness: (Why) history matters

The concept of language of trust and trustworthiness: (Why) history matters

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History of the Hanse: Construction and deconstruction

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