Yay, JHK! Good job. Very helpful. Questions on a first read:
- 1st paragraph - any examples of special trading privileges to offer?
- Nice on the limitations (segregation in merchant quarters)
- To what extent was the League a league of merchants rather than a league of cities? Or, to what extent did the merchant-traders actually rule in their home cities?
--MichaelTinkler
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JHK Nice job on starting the Hanseatic League. But you did not look at a map, again!!!
Luebeck in German Democratic Republic ??? Hurry up and fix your booboo !!!
As I keep telling you you need to look at maps!!!
H. Jonat
Oh for Pete's sake...I wrote this article mostly off the top of my head after working a twelve-hour shift and didn't bother to check a map. Sorry I put Lübeck in Eastern Germany. All I remembered last night was that, when I lived in Germany and several horrific attacks on Turkish residents occurred in Lübeck, the news repeatedly talked about how Reunification had affected the city, whose residents were largely from the Eastern Bloc -- led me to a careless mistake.
That said, Helga -- if I HAD looked at a map, I'd have got it right. You use maps all the time, and still get things dismally wrong. mea effing culpa. JHK
Do you think the info on
Lubeck from that paragraph should go in the Lubeck entry? I'm thinking it might fit better there -- a worthwhile anecdote, but I'm not sure that it goes with much of the rest of the Hansa entry --
Paul Drye
- Probably should, although I think the Hansa cities that actually WERE ( ;-) ) in the Eastern Bloc need mention -- I think there's an argument to be made that their traditions of independence may have helped them to assist in the collapse of the Iron Curtain. JHK
I know it's an attempt at being helpful, but I really *detest* adding weblinks to articles. Although there is a lot of great stuff on the web, the majority of scholarly literature is still to be found in libraries (remember books?). I would really hate to see the Wiki (or Nu) -pedias being used by lazy high-school and college students et al. as a glorified search engine. Don't laugh -- this is a very good possibility. I would ask other contributors to think about whether adding links is really to the benefit of the article. In regards to the ones added here, I have read Postel's article, but it is definitely not comprehensive.
JHK
It may be a good idea to have the links show for a while for wikipedians (maybe in a seperate
section as a reference) , then remove them ??
H. Jonat
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