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Housing the stranger in the Mediterranean world : lodging, trade, and travel in late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Olivia Remie Constable.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Constable, Olivia Remie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hotels--Mediterranean Region--History.
- Hotels.
- History.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 427 pages) : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 'Accepting all comers': a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity
- The transition from Byzantium to the Daŕ al-Islaḿ
- Commerce, charity, community, and the Funduq
- Colonies before colonialism: western trade and the evolution of the Fondaco
- Conquest and commercial space: the case of Iberia
- Fondacos in Sicily, South Italy, and the crusader states
- Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the later middle ages
- Christian commerce and the solidification of the Fondaco system
- The Fondaco in Mediterranean Europe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-404) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Constable, Olivia Remie. Housing the stranger in the Mediterranean world.
- ISBN:
- 0511165633
- 9780511165634
- OCLC:
- 69402787
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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