For more than 8,000 years, the desire for goods from distant countries has driven the evolution of complex international trade networks. These trade routes ... When the 14th Century emperor ...

Venetian parchment has been restored by a team from the University of Warwick. The document, which had been thought lost for more than 70 years, records the activities of merchants who followed in the ...

In the 14th century, Visby began to lose its leading position in the Hanseatic League due to plague around 1350 and invasion by the Danish army under King Valdemar Atterdag in 1361. Warfare and piracy ...