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Hanseatic research centre partners with Bergen and Genoa projects on women's economic history
A research centre attached to the European Hansemuseum has started a citizen-science cooperation with university projects in Bergen and Genoa and Lübeck's city archive to transcribe medieval sources on women.
Why it matters: The FGHO, the HansaWomen and PatriFem projects and Lübeck's city archive are jointly transcribing archive sources on women's economic role in the Hanseatic era.
The Research Centre for the History of the Hanse and the Baltic Region (FGHO), affiliated with the European Hansemuseum, has started a new cooperation with the HansaWomen project at the University of Bergen, the PatriFem project at the University of Genoa and the Archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, according to the announcement.
The partners will jointly transcribe historical sources from the Lübeck archive digitally and prepare them, in what is described as a citizen-science project.
The project centres on women and their role in economic life during the Hanseatic era, as part of research into the economic history of women in the Middle Ages.
Editor’s view
Joseph Lopez, Collaboration Editor
The four partners named in the announcement have agreed to digitally transcribe and prepare sources held by the Lübeck city archive, with the focus on women's role in the economic life of the Hanseatic era.
