Commercial Exchange Across the Mediterranean: Byzantium, the Crusader Levant, Egypt And Italy (Variorum Collected Studies Series)

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. Cover 1 Series 3 Half Title 4 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Preface 10 I Byzantine trade with Egypt from the mid-tenth century to the Fourth Crusade 14 II The supply of war materials to Egypt in the crusader period 67 III The Venetian quarter of Constantinople from 1082 to 1261: topographical considerations 98 IV The trade of crusader Acre in the Levantine context: an overview 116 V The Venetian privileges in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: twelfth and thirteenth-century interpretations and implementation 134 VI Migration, trade and banking in crusader Acre 156 VII Creta e Venezia nel contesto economico del Mediterraneo orientale sino alla metà del Quattrocento 172 VIII Cretan cheese: a neglected aspect of Venetian medieval trade 206 IX Changing economic patterns in Latin Romania: the impact of the West 226 X Dalla materia prima ai drappi tra Bisanzio, il Levante e Venezia: la prima fase dell’industria serica veneziana 264 XI Genoa, silk trade and silk manufacture in the Mediterranean region (ca. 1100-1300) 304 XII The production of silk textiles in Latin Greece 334 Addenda et Corrigenda 348 Index of Names 352 Index of Subjects 364 Commerce,Commercial products,Commercial products Middle East History,Commercial products Middle East History To 1500,History,Italy,Italy Commerce Middle East,Italy Commerce Middle East History,Mediterranean Region,Mediterranean Region Commerce History,Mediterranean Region Commerce Middle Ages,500-1500,Middle East,Middle East Commerce History,Middle East Commerce Italy,Middle East Commerce Italy History,Shipping,Shipping Mediterranean Region History,Shipping Mediterranean Region History To 1500,Shipping Middle East History,Shipping Middle East History To 1500,To 1500 Jacoby (The Hebrew U., Jerusalem) explores eastern Mediterranean commerce from the mid-tenth to the mid-fifteenth century and emphasizes regional economies and their interaction, rather than their relationship and exchange with the West. The study presents articles printed elsewhere from 1998-2001 and encompasses the structure, commodities, staples and goods such as cheese, war materials, topography, transportation issues, and silk textiles in commerce in Egypt, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Acre, and Latin Romania. The articles maintain their original pagination and two of them are in Italian. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR