Message in a Bottle: arrived!

Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz

Message in a Bottle. Merchants’ letters, merchants’ marks and conflict management in 1533-34. A source edition (with Stuart Jenks, Brepols 2022).

Also: check out the accompanying

1) Recorded online lecture on the publication

Background and goods on the ship
Letters: 13:49
Tudor London map and information from the source collection: 26:30
Merchants' marks: 30:20
Conclusions: 41:40

2) Merchants' marks database (with nodegoat.net)

3) Video on how one of the letters was locked and sealed (with letterlocking.org).

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PhD Defense!

Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz

Excellent PhD defense by team member Christian Manger:

‘Councils, Conflicts, Correspondence: Urban Diplomacy in Reval (Tallinn) and Lübeck (c.1470–1570)’.   [....]

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