The 10 Best The Hanseatic League Podcast Episodes
1) An Interview with Carsten Jahnke
Professor Carsten Jahnke, one of the leading historians on the Hanse has kindly granted us an interview where we discuss how the Hanse network functioned and how the perception of the Hanse has change...Show More
2) Episode 19 - The Art and Culture of the Hanse
Our history of the Hanse has come to an end, not with a bang but with a whimper. Of the things that have remained we have already talked a lot, the ideal of the honourable Hanseatic merchant, the cult...Show More
3) Episode 18 - A Brief History of Bremen
Bremen was geographically and politically quite different from the other cities, ploughing its own furrow. In response the other Hansards did not trust the citizens of Bremen. There is also the minor ...Show More
4) Episode 17 – The Rise of Hamburg
The last two episodes may have left you with a sense of gloom and foreboding about the great Hanseatic cities. But here is the counterintuitive fact, the Hanse may continuously loose political power a...Show More
5) Episode 16 - Decline and Fall (Part 2)
1531-1535, a period of just 4 years is enough to capsize Lübeck’s position as the diplomatic heart of the Baltic Sea, general secretary of the Hanse, ally of both the king of Denmark and the king of S...Show More
6) Episode 123 – Decline and Fall (Part 1)
1474-1531 was a time of immense change and upheaval for the Hanseatic League, and not just for them. The Habsburg empire is bedded into being, England’s war of the Roses is over, in the North the Poli...Show More
7) Episode 14 - Calamitous Victories
In 1435 the Hanse can look back at a string of successes. Another war with Denmark won, the patrician regime in Lübeck and elsewhere restored, conflicts with Burgundy and England settled in their favo...Show More
8) Episode 13 – A Constitutional Crisis
By the end of the 14th century the Hanse is at the top of its game. The Cologne Confederation had shown that they could act in unison if the need arises, can defeat the largest and best run kingdom in...Show More
9) Episode 11 - What Was the Hansa?
hat was the question king Edward IV asked the representatives of the Steelyard in 1469. And he had a good reason to ask, because tensions between the English and the Hansa had escalated, ships were ca...Show More
10) Episode 12 - Money, Money, Money
This was supposed to be an episode where we talk about the challenges the Hanse was facing after the victory over the Danes and the Peace of Stralsund. But that is not to be. Listeners Mehmet and Nina...Show More