ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600
ECOLENT develops a new conceptual-methodological framework to study the impact of ecological entanglements, interconnections between different regions, on biodiversity in a historical context. It will do so by using the late medieval Hanseatic League as a case study. This merchant association bought food products and raw materials in Scandinavia and the Baltic, and exchanged them for manufactured goods in the urbanised Low Countries and England. In this way, they created both economic and ecological connections between different regions of Northern Europe. Humans' modification of ecosystems in one part of the trade network can only be understood by considering it in tandem with…
From the public funding record at EU CORDIS. Describes the funded project, not the reviews below.