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\"The Companion to the Hanseatic League discusses the importance of the Hanseatic League for the social and economic history of pre-modern northern Europe. Established already as early as the twelfth century, the towns that formed the Hanseatic League created an important network of commerce throughout the Baltic and North Sea area. From Russia in the east, to England and France in the west, the cities of the Hanseatic League created a vast northern maritime trade network. The aim of this volume is to present a 'state' of the field English-language volume by some of the most respected Hanse scholars. Contributors are Mike Burkhardt, Ulf Christian Ewert, Rolf Hammel-Kiesow, Donald J. Harreld, Carsten Jahnke, Michael North, Jürgen Sarnowsky and Stephan Selzer\"--Provided by publisher

The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe discusses new research on this unique organization of towns and traders, and places the findings in the broader context of European economic, legal and social history.

\"The Companion to the Hanseatic League discusses the importance of the Hanseatic League for the social and economic history of pre-modern northern Europe. Established already as early as the twelfth century, the towns that formed the Hanseatic League created an important network of commerce throughout the Baltic and North Sea area. From Russia in the east, to England and France in the west, the cities of the Hanseatic League created a vast northern maritime trade network. The aim of this volume is to present a 'state' of the field English-language volume by some of the most respected Hanse scholars. Contributors are Mike Burkhardt, Ulf Christian Ewert, Rolf Hammel-Kiesow, Donald J. Harreld, Carsten Jahnke, Michael North, Jürgen Sarnowsky and Stephan Selzer\"--Provided by publisher

The Hansa formed the principal agent of trade and cultural exchange in northern Europe and the Baltic during the late medieval to early modern periods. Hanseatic urban settlements in northern Europe shared many things in common. Their cultural 'signature' was articulated physically through a shared vocabulary of step-gabled brick architecture and domestic goods. Although the Hansa remains a monolith in the popular historical imagination, it is rapidly becoming a multidisciplinary field of study juxtaposing often-contradictory material and documentary sources. The redevelopment of towns on the Baltic littoral, particularly of those formerly behind the Iron Curtain, offers archaeological opportunities to create parallel biographies of medieval mercantile communities that avoid tautology but bring a new texturing to the reconstruction of cultural development in the region. The archaeology of the Hansa in the Baltic - as a case study in historical archaeology - offers the prospect of investigating some of the key attributes of pre-industrial European society on the macro-regional scale. Such attributes include the development of mercantile capitalism, Europeanization, colonialism, acculturation and resistance. Ceramic distributions are particularly sensitive to reflecting levels of adoption and resistance to Hanseatic cultural influences among diverse communities, notably in the spheres of dining practice and domestic comfort. The paper begins with a review of historical perceptions of Hansa culture in the region and how rescue excavation is now redefining a sense of identity among local communities in a changing geo-political environment.

Biblioteca Orășenească Amara a fost deschisă publicului în anul 1938, ca urmare a inițiativei conducerii de atunci a Căminului Cultural „Izvorul Tămăduirii”. În anul 2004, Amara a devenit oraș, iar biblioteca sa orășenească își desfășoară activitatea într-un spațiu extins, renovat, dotat cu mobilier adecvat și colecții îmbogățite, în cadrul Casei de Cultură „Jan Căciulă”. Din anul 2010, biblioteca este înscrisă în programul național Biblionet, prilej cu care a fost dotată cu echipamente IT și a fost inaugurat un nou serviciu pentru membrii comunității: calculatoare cu Internet pentru public. Articolul propune și o scurtă prezentare a activităților socio-culturale desfășurate în anul 2017.