Mediterranean Encounters, Economic, Religious, Political, 1100-1550 (Variorum Collected Studies)

This third volume by David Abulafia looks at the interactions between territories, peoples and religions across the Mediterranean, and at the influence of the Mediterranean economy on the world beyond. Topics addressed are trade across the Christian-Muslim frontier; the relative importance of local and long distance trade in economic development; the policies of Frederick II and his successors towards the Jews and Muslims; and the complex political relationships within the western and central Mediterranean in the aftermath of the revolt of the Sicilian Vespers. Attention is also paid to Italian merchants and bankers as far afield as London and Southampton, and to the business affairs of Lorenzo de'Medici. Taken together, these papers present an original, Mediterranean, perspective on the economy, society and politics of central and late medieval Europe. Cover 1 Series 3 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Preface 12 TRADE ACROSS THE CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM FRONTIER 22 I The Role of Trade in Muslim•Christian Contact during the Middle Ages The Arab Influence in Medieval Europe, ed. D. Agius and R. Hitchcock, Folia Scolastica Mediterranea. Reading/Beirut, 1994 22 II Trade and Crusade, 1050•1250 Cultural Convergences in the Crusader Period, ed. M Goodich, S. Menache, S. Schein. New York, 1995 46 III Gli inizi del commercio genovese a Maiorca e il patto maiorchino-genovese del 1160 Oriente e Occidente tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna. Studi in onore di Geo Pistarino, ed. L. Balletto. Genoa/Acqui Terme, 1997 66 IV East and West: Comments on the Commerce of the City of Ancona in the Middle Ages Atti e memorie della Società Dalmata di Storia Patria 26, Città e sistema adriatico alla fine del Medioevo. Bilancio degli studi e prospettive di ricerca, ed. M.P. Ghezzo. Venice, 1997 76 V Industrial Products: the Middle Ages Prodotti e tecniche d'Oltremare nelle economie europee, secc. XIII-XVIII. XXIX Settimana dell 'Istituto Internazionale di Storia economica 'F. Datini' 29. Florence, 1998 94 THE MEDITERRANEAN ECONOMY AND WESTERN EUROPE 120 VI The Impact of Italian Banking in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1300•1500 Banking, Trade and Industry Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. A. Teichova, G. Kurgan-van Hentenryk and D. Ziegler. Cambridge, 1997 120 VII Cittadino e denizen: mercanti mediterranei a Southampton e a Londra Sistema di rapporti ed èlites economiche in Europa (secoli XII-XVII), ed. M. del Treppo, Europa Mediterranea Quaderni 8. Naples, 1994 138 VIII L'economia mercantile nel Mediterraneo occidentale (1390ca-1460ca): commercio locale e a lunga distanza nell' età di Alfonso il Magnanimo Schola Salernitana 2. Salerno, 1997 158 IX Grain Traffic Out of the Apulian Ports on Behalf of Lorenzo de'Medici, 1486•7 Karissime Gotifride. Historical Essays Presented to Professor Godfrey Wettinger on his Seventieth Birthday, ed. Paul Xuereb. Malta, 1999 180 POLITICS, RELIGION AND ECONOMY IN THE ERA OF FREDERICK II 192 X Lo Stato e la vita economica Federico II e il mondo mediterraneo, ed. A. Paravicini Bagliani and P. Toubert. Palermo, 1994 192 XI The Kingdom of Sicily and the Origins of the Political Crusades Società, Istituzioni, Spiritualità nell 'Europa medievale. Studi in onore di Cinzio Violante. Spoleto, 1994 216 XII Ethnic Variety and its Implications: Frederick II's Relations with Jews and Muslims Intellectual Life at the Court of Frederick II Hohenstaufen. Studies in the History of Art, 44, ed. William Tronzo, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Papers XXIV. Washington DC, 1994 230 JEWS AND MUSLIMS UNDER ANJOU AND ARAGON 242 XIII Monarchs and Minorities in the Christian Western Mediterranean around 1300: Lucera and its Analogues Christendom and its Discontents. Exclusion, Persecution and Rebellion, 1000•1500, ed. Scott L. Waugh and Peter D. Diehl. Cambridge, 1996 242 XIV Le attività economiche degli Ebrei siciliani attorno al 1300 Italia Judaica: Gli Ebrei in Sicilia sino all' espulsione del 1492. Atti del V Convegno internazionale, Palermo, 15-19 giugno 1992. Rome, 1995 272 XV Die Verfolgung der Juden in Süditalien und Sizilien (1290•1541) Judenvertreibungen in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit, ed. F. Burgard, A. Haverkamp, G. Mentgen, Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden, Abteilung A: Abhandlungen, Band 9. Hanover, 1999 280 XVI The Role of the Jews in the Cultural Life of the Aragonese Kingdom of Naples Gli Ebrei in Sicilia dal tardo Antico al Medioevo. Studi in onore di Mons. Benedetto Rocco, ed. N. Bucaria. Palermo, 1998 300 POLITICAL RIVALRIES BETWEEN ANJOU AND ARAGON 320 XVII The Aragonese Kingdom of Albania: an Angevin Project of 1311•1316 Mediterranean Historical Review, 10. London / Tel Aviv 1995 320 XVIII Genova Angioina, 1318-35: gli inizi della Signoria di Roberto re di Napoli La storia dei Genovesi, vol. 12. Genoa, 1994 15 334 XIX Consideraciones sobre la historia del reino de Mallorca: Mallorca entre Aragón y Francia El Regne de Mallorca a l 'època de la dinastia privativa. XVI Jornades de Història Local, Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics. Palma de Mallorca, 1998 344 Addenda et Corrigenda 360 Index 362 Commerce; Commerce Religious aspects; History; Mediterranean Region; Mediterranean Region Commerce History To 1500; Mediterranean Region Commerce Religious aspects; Mediterranean Region History 476-1517; Mediterranean Region Politics and government; Mediterranean Region Religion; Mediterranean Region Social conditions; Méditerranée,Région de la Conditions sociales; Méditerranée,Région de la Histoire 476-1517; Méditerranée,Région de la Politique et gouvernement; Politics and government; Religion; Social conditions; Social interaction; Social interaction Mediterranean Region History To 1500; To 1517 Commerce,Commerce Religious aspects,History,Mediterranean Region,Mediterranean Region Commerce History To 1500,Mediterranean Region Commerce Religious aspects,Mediterranean Region History 476-1517,Mediterranean Region Politics and government,Mediterranean Region Religion,Mediterranean Region Social conditions,Méditerranée,Région de la Conditions sociales,Méditerranée,Région de la Histoire 476-1517,Méditerranée,Région de la Politique et gouvernement,Politics and government,Religion,Social conditions,Social interaction,Social interaction Mediterranean Region History To 1500,To 1517 This third volume by David Abulafia looks at the interactions between territories, peoples and religions across the Mediterranean, and at the influence of the Mediterranean economy on the world beyond. Topics addressed are trade across the Christian-Muslim frontier; the relative importance of local and long distance trade in economic development; the policies of Frederick II and his successors towards the Jews and Muslims; and the complex political relationships within the western and central Mediterranean in the aftermath of the revolt of the Sicilian Vespers. Attention is also paid to Italian merchants and bankers as far afield as London and Southampton, and to the business affairs of Lorenzo de'Medici. Taken together, these papers present an original, Mediterranean, perspective on the economy, society and politics of central and late medieval Europe. Cover 1 Series 3 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Preface 12 TRADE ACROSS THE CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM FRONTIER 22 I The Role of Trade in Muslim•Christian Contact during the Middle Ages The Arab Influence in Medieval Europe, ed. D. Agius and R. Hitchcock, Folia Scolastica Mediterranea. Reading/Beirut, 1994 22 II Trade and Crusade, 1050•1250 Cultural Convergences in the Crusader Period, ed. M Goodich, S. Menache, S. Schein. New York, 1995 46 III Gli inizi del commercio genovese a Maiorca e il patto maiorchino-genovese del 1160 Oriente e Occidente tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna. Studi in onore di Geo Pistarino, ed. L. Balletto. Genoa/Acqui Terme, 1997 66 IV East and West: Comments on the Commerce of the City of Ancona in the Middle Ages Atti e memorie della Società Dalmata di Storia Patria 26, Città e sistema adriatico alla fine del Medioevo. Bilancio degli studi e prospettive di ricerca, ed. M.P. Ghezzo. Venice, 1997 76 V Industrial Products: the Middle Ages Prodotti e tecniche d'Oltremare nelle economie europee, secc. XIII-XVIII. XXIX Settimana dell 'Istituto Internazionale di Storia economica 'F. Datini' 29. Florence, 1998 94 THE MEDITERRANEAN ECONOMY AND WESTERN EUROPE 120 VI The Impact of Italian Banking in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1300•1500 Banking, Trade and Industry Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. A. Teichova, G. Kurgan-van Hentenryk and D. Ziegler. Cambridge, 1997 120 VII Cittadino e denizen: mercanti mediterranei a Southampton e a Londra Sistema di rapporti ed èlites economiche in Europa (secoli XII-XVII), ed. M. del Treppo, Europa Mediterranea Quaderni 8. Naples, 1994 138 VIII L'economia mercantile nel Mediterraneo occidentale (1390ca-1460ca): commercio locale e a lunga distanza nell' età di Alfonso il Magnanimo Schola Salernitana 2. Salerno, 1997 158 IX Grain Traffic Out of the Apulian Ports on Behalf of Lorenzo de'Medici, 1486•7 Karissime Gotifride. Historical Essays Presented to Professor Godfrey Wettinger on his Seventieth Birthday, ed. Paul Xuereb. Malta, 1999 180 POLITICS, RELIGION AND ECONOMY IN THE ERA OF FREDERICK II 192 X Lo Stato e la vita economica Federico II e il mondo mediterraneo, ed. A. Paravicini Bagliani and P. Toubert. Palermo, 1994 192 XI The Kingdom of Sicily and the Origins of the Political Crusades Società, Istituzioni, Spiritualità nell 'Europa medievale. Studi in onore di Cinzio Violante. Spoleto, 1994 216 XII Ethnic Variety and its Implications: Frederick II's Relations with Jews and Muslims Intellectual Life at the Court of Frederick II Hohenstaufen. Studies in the History of Art, 44, ed. William Tronzo, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Papers XXIV. Washington DC, 1994 230 JEWS AND MUSLIMS UNDER ANJOU AND ARAGON 242 XIII Monarchs and Minorities in the Christian Western Mediterranean around 1300: Lucera and its Analogues Christendom and its Discontents. Exclusion, Persecution and Rebellion, 1000•1500, ed. Scott L. Waugh and Peter D. Diehl. Cambridge, 1996 242 XIV Le attività economiche degli Ebrei siciliani attorno al 1300 Italia Judaica: Gli Ebrei in Sicilia sino all' espulsione del 1492. Atti del V Convegno internazionale, Palermo, 15-19 giugno 1992. Rome, 1995 272 XV Die Verfolgung der Juden in Süditalien und Sizilien (1290•1541) Judenvertreibungen in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit, ed. F. Burgard, A. Haverkamp, G. Mentgen, Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden, Abteilung A: Abhandlungen, Band 9. Hanover, 1999 280 XVI The Role of the Jews in the Cultural Life of the Aragonese Kingdom of Naples Gli Ebrei in Sicilia dal tardo Antico al Medioevo. Studi in onore di Mons. Benedetto Rocco, ed. N. Bucaria. Palermo, 1998 300 POLITICAL RIVALRIES BETWEEN ANJOU AND ARAGON 320 XVII The Aragonese Kingdom of Albania: an Angevin Project of 1311•1316 Mediterranean Historical Review, 10. London / Tel Aviv 1995 320 XVIII Genova Angioina, 1318-35: gli inizi della Signoria di Roberto re di Napoli La storia dei Genovesi, vol. 12. Genoa, 1994 15 334 XIX Consideraciones sobre la historia del reino de Mallorca: Mallorca entre Aragón y Francia El Regne de Mallorca a l 'època de la dinastia privativa. XVI Jornades de Història Local, Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics. Palma de Mallorca, 1998 344 Addenda et Corrigenda 360 Index 362 Commerce; Commerce Religious aspects; History; Mediterranean Region; Mediterranean Region Commerce History To 1500; Mediterranean Region Commerce Religious aspects; Mediterranean Region History 476-1517; Mediterranean Region Politics and government; Mediterranean Region Religion; Mediterranean Region Social conditions; Méditerranée,Région de la Conditions sociales; Méditerranée,Région de la Histoire 476-1517; Méditerranée,Région de la Politique et gouvernement; Politics and government; Religion; Social conditions; Social interaction; Social interaction Mediterranean Region History To 1500; To 1517 Commerce,Commerce Religious aspects,History,Mediterranean Region,Mediterranean Region Commerce History To 1500,Mediterranean Region Commerce Religious aspects,Mediterranean Region History 476-1517,Mediterranean Region Politics and government,Mediterranean Region Religion,Mediterranean Region Social conditions,Méditerranée,Région de la Conditions sociales,Méditerranée,Région de la Histoire 476-1517,Méditerranée,Région de la Politique et gouvernement,Politics and government,Religion,Social conditions,Social interaction,Social interaction Mediterranean Region History To 1500,To 1517 Abulafia, in this collection of previously published essays (in English, Spanish, and Italian), focuses on the ways in which political developments and economic ones influence one another. The essays consider trade between Christians and Muslims in the 12th century, particularly between Spain and North Africa, in the Crusader States, the city of Ancona, Italy, and in the trade of the industrial arts. Subsequent sections consider the Italians' and Iberians' contribution to trade in the 13th through 15th centuries; the Kingdoms of Sicily and Naples, with an essay on the place in these kingdoms of Jews and Muslims; and the political convulsions that followed the War of the Sicilian Vespers