Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages: Pegolotti's Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and Its Commercial Context

by Tom Sinclair and Thomas Sinclair

At the end of the High Middle Ages in Europe, with buying power and economic sophistication at a high, an itinerary detailing the toll stations along a commercial artery carrying eastern goods (from China, India and Iran) towards Europe was compiled, and later incorporated in the well-known trading manual of the Florentine bank official Pegolotti; Pegolotti was twice stationed in the city of Famagusta in Cyprus, which lay opposite the city of Ayas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075466516X
• ISBN13: 9780754665168
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 438 Pages