Commercial Exchange Across the Mediterranean: Byzantium, the Crusader Levant, Egypt and Italy

by David Jacoby

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860789802
• ISBN13: 9780860789802
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.