Trade, Commodities and Shipping in the Medieval MediterraneanVariorum
David Jacoby
ISBN: 086078620X
price: $117.95 hardcover
This fourth collection by David Jacoby focuses on Western
economic expansion in the eastern Mediterranean during the
11th-15th centuries. His concern is to emphasize the
interconnections linking the West, Byzantium and the Levant, and
to examine normative sources for commercial activity (charters,
etc.) against the background of actual practice, such as
reflected in notarial documents. The articles deal with the
evolution of urban centers, the trade in raw materials, and at
the same time, questions of technology transfer, and the mobility
of merchants and craftsmen. Particular attention is given to the
silk trade--the author argues that demographic expansion in the
Byzantine world, as in the West, stimulated economic growth, and
demand for silk led to the emergence of a market-driven industry
in Byzantium.
Contents: Preface; The migration of merchants and craftsmen: a
Mediterranean perspective (12th-15th century); Italian privileges
and trade in Byzantium before the Fourth Crusade: a
reconsideration; Les Génois dans l'Empire Byzantin: citoyens,
sujets et protégés (1261-1453); Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat,
and the Kingdom of Jerusalem (1187-1192); L'évolution urbaine et
la fonction méditerranéenne, d'Acre à l'époque des croisades;
Les Communes italiennes et les ordres militaires à Acre: aspects
juridiques, territoriaux et militaires (1104-1187, 1191-1291);
Silk in Western Byzantium before the Fourth Crusade; Silk
production in the Frankish Peloponnese: the evidence of
14th-century surveys and reports; Raw materials for the glass
industries of Venice and the Terraferma, about 1370-about 1460;
L'alun et la Crète vénitienne; La production du sucre en Crète
vénitienne: l'échec d'une entreprise économique; Venetian
anchors for Crusader Acre; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.
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