The Hanseatic Merchants of Northern Europe, 1250–1400 | Calm Bedtime History
The first light is grey upon the canals of Bruges. In the upper storey of a timber-framed house near the Jan van Eyckplein, a man from Lübeck named Hildebrand Veckinchusen has already risen. He washes his hands in cold water, dresses in a woollen robe dyed dark, and descends to the counting house where ledgers lie open from the previous evening.
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