Premodern conflict management

Microreviews: our thoughts on inspiring books and articles relevant for premodern conflict management. Overview with links: premodernconflictmanagement.org/microreviews.p…

Historicus Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (@retro_conflicts) was te gast bij BBC-radioprogramma In Our Time om te vertellen over de Hanze, het middeleeuwse handelsverbond van Noord-Europese steden. Beluister het gesprek hier: go.uva.nl/3OwrkF0

It was both business and pleasure! And now it's available as a podcast.

@AlastairJDunn @BBCInOurTime Good to hear!

@Brepols @letterlocking @Back2FutureERC

Very happy with the review of brepols.net/products/IS-97…, it was so much fun to work with the merchants' letters and merchants' marks! Antwerp-London- #Hanse triangle. @Brepols @letterlocking @Back2FutureERC

Premodern conflict management burnout? 1472, painful introspection of a diplomat and ship commander: I internalise it all too much ('ick neme my vele saken alto nae'), I worry all day and I have become a weak, ill man. #medievaltwitter #primarysources #diplomacy #Hanse

Last Friday, @retro_conflicts very own Christian Manger splendidly defended his PhD thesis, ‘Councils, Conflicts, Correspondence: Urban Diplomacy in Reval (Tallinn) and Lübeck (c.1470–1570)’. @UvA_Amsterdam @UvA_Humanities #Hanse #twitterstorians #urbanhistory #phd

Good old days of premodern #diplomacy? 'Latin, a language everyone knows well' (1464, 'wente Latin ene sprake were de alle tungen woll vornemen') #twitterstorians #medievaltwitter #fridayfun with #primarysources #Hanse #diplomatichistory

How do you solve linguistic problems during #conflictmanagement with the #Hanse? 1511, Swedish bishop: 'I'm sorry my German is not so elegant. I will do my best and throw in Latin when necessary'. #twitterstorians #primarysources

Poem by Bauke Vermaas, after day 2: #primarysources from a different perspective

Poem by Johanneke ter Stege @Johanneketstege, after day 1:

The Hanse Symposium in Zwolle (7-9.09) which we co-organised with @CollectieOv: a summary shorturl.at/norY7 and poems (!!!) written at the end of each day shorturl.at/vzD05. Papers by @FSternfeld @theroadsproject

Pre-modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes East Central Europe..., eds. M Antonín Malaníková, B Możejko, M Nodl (@routledgebooks, September 2023) facebook.com/MedievalUpdate… routledge.com/Pre-modern-Tow… #medievaltwitter #medievalstudies #medievalcities #medievalsociety

You see hands right here, but feet were also important in conflicts! They brought you places. And hence shoes were indispensable, as well. OK, we are stretching it a mile, but medieval shoes were great: check out medievalists.net/2023/06/shoes-… @Medievalists

Sometimes, #primarysources speak to us, #twitterstorians. To a Hanseatic merchant in 1539, the text he was referring to (decisions of the Hanseatic cities), was SINGING: 'der Ansse Steder Recesse de van solcken vnd dergliecken fellen klaerlick singen’. #Hanse #everydaypoetry

1463, Lübeck, description of a conflict and a failed mediation: 'Friendship, as they said, did not want to be found' (fruntschopp so se zeden zijk nicht hefft vinden willen). #premodern #twitterstorians #conflictmanagement #mediation #primarysources

📢 Closes 20 Sept. We are hiring 2 postdocs in economic history and early modern history. VOICES is a 5 yr ERC at TCD that aims to recover the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland. Plse RT👇 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecruit/… @BA_McShane @TLRHub @ronanlyons @VirtualTreasury

CfP: M43 Pre-Modern Cities: Inequality and the Urban Economy, EAUH Ostrava eauh2024ostrava.osu.eu/main-session/ Reposting, retweeting or whatever you would like to call it nowadays is much appreciated! #urban #twitterstorians

So, how did the Hanse attempt to prevent conflicts? Think, for example, of Tagfahrten, reciprocity, sending 'goede mannen' to mediate and even using merchants' marks #diplomatichistory

Next day, more Hanse! Starting with a talk by our #conflictmanagement project's PI Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz, about the /prevention/ of conflicts @CollectieOv