One of my courses this semester was on medieval history and for the final paper in this course, I decided to write about the magna societas alemannorum (Great Society of the Germans), also known as the company of the Humpis or Great Ravensburg Trading Company. The company was founded around 1380 as the family cooperation of the Humpis, Mötteli and Muntprat from Ravensburg and Constance, today at the border between Germany and Switzerland. During it's 150...