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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

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/sho… @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

CfP: M43 Pre-Modern Cities: Inequality and the Urban Economy, EAUH Ostrava eauh2024ostrava.osu.eu/main-… 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