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This new Blue Guide provides the first detailed description of the art and architecture of post-unification Berlin and Eastern Germany.It is an invaluable guide to the former royal palaces of Dresden, the superb art collections and museums founded by imperial patrons, and the brick Gothic of the Hanseatic League. There are more than forty tours and a wealth of practical information to help visitors explore this little-known part of Central Europe. 30 photographs / 25 maps and plans

Hansa - Hanseatic Town - Hansa Cog- are terms which are familiar to anyone interested in northern European History. The Hanseatic period has left behind many traces: -the towns with their churches, town halls and patrician houses, a unique architectural flavor, and the ruins of mighty defences, -the town seals, public documents and chronicles, -the cogs, those one-masted sailing ships with their typical profile, and all the sagas and songs about the trade they plied and the escapades of their pirates, -the paintings and sculptures scattered along the coastal regions of the North and Baltic Seas. Hanseatic history is a chapter, not only in the history of northern and central Germany, but in that of other countries in the regions around those tow seas; the records of a Hanseatic past which still inspire the admirations of today's observers testify to the outstanding cultural accomplishment of Hanseatic burghers. What kind of people built those impressive towns five and six centuries ago? What kind of life did they lead? How did they work and where did they live? Did they have access to education? How did trade and seafaring influence their occupations and their character? What role did church and religion play in their society? How was their mentality expresses in their literature, music and visual arts? And were they conscious of their own history? This book seeks to answer those questions in words and in pictures. It sketches in outline the emergence and evolution of this extraordinary historical phenomenon, its heyday and its demise, demonstrating the international operation and influence of the Hansa which, first as a company of merchants and then as a League of towns, encouraged the economic unity of the lands around the North Sea and the Baltic.

Scandinavian Painted Decor is the definitive study of Scandanavian decorative styles from the early 17th century to the late 19th century, with examples from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, and the Hanseatic and Baltic states. 250 illustrations; 200 in color.

The German Hanse was the most successful and most far-flung trade association that existed in medieval and early-modern Europe. Inevitably it appears prominently in every general study of trade, sometimes under the label of 'the Hanseatic League'. This, however, is the first study to be devoted to relations between the Hanse and England throughout the entire period of their contact, which lasted for some 500 years. The composition of trade is analysed, and the fluctuations in its volume and value are reconstructed from primary sources, chiefly customs accounts. But trade was often made possible only by intensive political and diplomatic bargaining between the two sides, sometimes at the level of merchant and merchant, at other times between the English government and the Hanse diet, the highest authority within the German organisation. This aspect of the relationship is explored in equal detail.

Hansa - Hanseatic Town - Hansa Cog- are terms which are familiar to anyone interested in northern European History. The Hanseatic period has left behind many traces: -the towns with their churches, town halls and patrician houses, a unique architectural flavor, and the ruins of mighty defences, -the town seals, public documents and chronicles, -the cogs, those one-masted sailing ships with their typical profile, and all the sagas and songs about the trade they plied and the escapades of their pirates, -the paintings and sculptures scattered along the coastal regions of the North and Baltic Seas. Hanseatic history is a chapter, not only in the history of northern and central Germany, but in that of other countries in the regions around those tow seas; the records of a Hanseatic past which still inspire the admirations of today's observers testify to the outstanding cultural accomplishment of Hanseatic burghers. What kind of people built those impressive towns five and six centuries ago? What kind of life did they lead? How did they work and where did they live? Did they have access to education? How did trade and seafaring influence their occupations and their character? What role did church and religion play in their society? How was their mentality expresses in their literature, music and visual arts? And were they conscious of their own history? This book seeks to answer those questions in words and in pictures. It sketches in outline the emergence and evolution of this extraordinary historical phenomenon, its heyday and its demise, demonstrating the international operation and influence of the Hansa which, first as a company of merchants and then as a League of towns, encouraged the economic unity of the lands around the North Sea and the Baltic.

CONTENTS: Charters and Chartered Corporations -- The Hanseatic League -- Regulated and Joint Stock Companies The Merchants of the Staple The Fraternity (Brotherhood) of St. Thomas B Becket, Later Called the Company of the Merchant Adventurers of England The Russia Company The Eastland Company The Turkey (Levant) Company The East India Company (1600-1858) The Hudson Bay Company The Virginia and New England Companies and Provincial Charters Summary Account of the Guinea (Royal African) and Minor Chartered Companies