Commercial Exchange Across the Mediterranean

Byzantium, the Crusader Levant, Egypt and Italy

David Jacoby

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780860789802
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000939804
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The customary treatment of Mediterranean trade from the 11th to the mid-15th century emphasizes the predominance of western merchants and the commercial exchange of spices and eastern raw materials for western woollens and other finished products. The studies in this collection, the sixth by David Jacoby to be published in the Variorum series, adopt a different perspective. They underscore the economic vitality of various countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean, their industrial capacity, the importance of exchanges between them, and the important contribution of the merchants based in that region to trans-Mediterranean trade. They also illustrate the role of hitherto neglected commodities, such as timber, iron, silk and cheese, in that trade.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• I Byzantine trade with Egypt from the mid-tenth century to the Fourth Crusade
• II The supply of war materials to Egypt in the crusader period
• III The Venetian quarter of Constantinople from 1082 to 1261: topographical considerations
• IV The trade of crusader Acre in the Levantine context: an overview
• V The Venetian privileges in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: twelfth and thirteenth-century interpretations and implementation
• VI Migration, trade and banking in crusader Acre
• VII Creta e Venezia nel contesto economico del Mediterraneo orientale sino alia metà del Quattrocento
• VIII Cretan cheese: a neglected aspect of Venetian medieval trade
• IX Changing economic patterns in Latin Romania: the impact of the West
• X Dalla materia prima ai drappi tra Bisanzio, il Levante e Venezia: la prima fase dell'industria serica veneziana
• XI Genoa, silk trade and silk manufacture in the Mediterranean region (ca. 1100-1300)
• XII The production of silk textiles in Latin Greece
• Addenda et Corrigenda
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects