The trade between Slesvig/Lübeck and Novgorod c.1050 until c.1450

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In the Scandinavian sources an association of “merchants”, willing to trade overseas, was conducted in two steps. In the first step a merchant who wanted to sail abroad could ask the captain of the ship, skipdrottin, to be taken into it. The trade between the Jutian peninsula and Novgorod alone illustrates the problems and developments of monetisation in the Baltic Sea area, because here merchants from different systems and development stages met. In the case of the city of Slesvig the bylaw from around 1200 stated that the lord of the town owned the pre-emption right and the laudaticum for marten-fur, which was converted into a onetime fee of the furriers. Marten furs were a symbol of status and an important trading good in the Baltic Sea area, especially in the trade with Novgorod. In the Lubeck chronicle of Arnold of Lubeck, the mark pennies appear for the first time at the end of the twelfth century.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelMonetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050-1450
RedaktørerDariusz Adamczyk, Beata Możejko
Antal sider14
ForlagRoutledge
Publikationsdato2021
Sider63-76
Artikelnummer4
ISBN (Trykt)9780367898564
ISBN (Elektronisk)9781003021476
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021
NavnStudies in Medieval History and Culture

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