Gotland
Subtitle: kulturelles Zentrum im Hanseraum = Cultural centre in the Hanseatic area
By: Jan von Bonsdorff, Kerstin Petermann, Anja Rasche (Hg.).
Contributors: Gotland Kulturelles Zentrum im Hanseraum (2015 : Visby, Sweden)
Series: Coniunctiones - Beiträge des Netzwerks Kunst und Kultur der Hansestädte -- Bd. 2; Coniunctiones -- Bd. 2.
Publisher: Michael Imhof Verlag
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Petersberg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783731909941
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Congresses; Congrès; Hanseatic League; Hanse
Other titles: Kulturelles Zentrum im Hanseraum; Cultural centre in the Hanseatic area
Description: "Volume 2 of the series 'Coniunctiones - Contributions of the Network of the Hanseatic Cities' Art and Culture' presents the results of the 2015 conference in Visby held by the Böckler-Mare-Balticum Foundation and Uppsala University in cooperation with the Network of the Hanseatic Cities' Art and Culture. The articles by Swedish, German, Baltic, Polish and Russian researchers shed light on Gotland's transnational character, while historians, art historians, archaeologists, ethnologists and conservators tackle transdisciplinary questions. Gotland safeguards an overwhelming multitude of superbly preserved and high-quality objects of its artistic and cultural history. Its central position in the Baltic Sea region made Gotland an important trading spot even before the Hanseatic League. From the 12th century onwards, the island served as the departure point for an association of merchants travelling to Novgorod together. Gotland thus became a centre of exchange not merely for the area around the Baltic Sea, but for the entire region of Hanseatic trade"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Text German, some text English.