Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World - Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Informationen zum Autor Olivia Remie Constable is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula 900–1500 (CUP, 1994) and Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources (1997). Zusammenfassung The Greek pandocheion! the Arabic funduq! and Latin fondaco were ubiquitous institutions in the Mediterranean sphere that operated as hostelries for travellers and evolved into centres of trade between Muslim and Christian regions. Professor Constable traces their complex evolution across space and culture from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: a culture of travel: words institutions, and connections; 1. Accepting all comers': a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity; 2. the transition from Byzantium to the Dar al-Islam; 3. Commerce, charity, community, and the funduq; 4. Colonies before colonialism: western Christian trade and the evolution of the fondaco; 5. Conquest and commercial space: the case of Iberia; 6. Fondacos in Sicily, south Italy, and the Crusader states; 7. Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the later middle ages; 8. Christian commerce and the solidification of the fondaco system; 9. The fondaco in Mediterranean Europe; Conclusion: a changing world: new peoples and institutions in the early modern Mediterranean; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Olivia Remie Constable, Olivia Remie (University of Notre Dame Constable, Constable Olivia Remie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521109765
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10976-5
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, Islamic Studies, Economic history, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE