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Article: Family, Commerce and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants c. 1000-1300.
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 1, 2000
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Family, Commerce and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants, c. 1000-1300, by Joseph P. Huffman. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 273 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cloth).
This book incorporates interregional research of Anglo-German commercial, social, religious, and cultural associations in the pre-Hanseatic era. Commencing with a review of background for the social history of emigrants, it then traces the transformation of the Hanse of Cologne merchants in London into the Hanse Teutonicorum of the London Steelyard. A third chapter looks at currency exchange and effectively establishes the early existence of a highly developed economic nexus ...