Covering almost 1000 archival collections in all countries around the Baltic Sea (including the Netherlands), this guide provides an essential tool for scholars studying the region's maritime, economic and diplomatic relations between 1450 and 1800.
Lennart Bes, M.A. in Indology, Leiden University, is employed at the National Archives of the Netherlands. He has published on South Indian history and the archives of the Dutch East India Company, including two archival guides to Dutch sources on South Asia.Edda Frankot, Ph.D. (2004) in History and Law, University of Aberdeen, is a researcher at the Hanse Research Centre of the University of Groningen. She specialises in maritime, legal and urban history of Northern Europe in the Later Middle Ages.Hanno Brand, Ph.D. (1996) in Medieval History, is a fellow at the Hanse Research Centre at Groningen University. He has published extensively on Leiden's urban elites, aspects of Urban History, the Burgundian Court (1419-1477) and on the relations between the Low Countries and the German Hanse.
