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Trading conflicts : Venetian merchants and Mamluk offficials in late medieval Alexandria / by Georg Christ.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christ, Georg.
- Series:
- Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 93.
- Medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500, 0928-5520 ; v. 93
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italians--Egypt--Alexandria--History--To 1500.
- Italians.
- Mamelukes--History--To 1500.
- Mamelukes.
- Italians--Egypt--Alexandria--Biography.
- Merchants--Egypt--Alexandria--Biography.
- Merchants.
- Consuls--Egypt--Alexandria--Biography.
- Consuls.
- Social conflict--Egypt--Alexandria--History--To 1500.
- Social conflict.
- Alexandria (Egypt)--Social conditions.
- Alexandria (Egypt).
- Alexandria (Egypt)--Commerce--History.
- Venice (Italy)--Commerce--History.
- Venice (Italy).
- Dolfin, Biagio, -1420.
- Dolfin, Biagio.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analysing different conflicts in Late Medieval Alexandria, this book offers new insights into the micro-mechanics of Venetian life and trade in Egypt and recalibrates the narrative of the strictly regulated and often violent contacts between East and West. This thorough microanalysis, based on the private archive of a Venetian merchant and consul in Alexandria read in conjunction with other Venetian and Mamluk sources, provides a differentiated image of conflict patterns cutting across the cultural divide. It transforms our image of Alexandria as a city at the intersection of Orient and Occident into that of a microcosm in its own right where disputes did not always fall neatly along cultural divides and conflicts were traded as much as trade created conflicts.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Framework : Venetian merchants in Alexandria - biography of Biagio Dolfin
- pt. 2. Presumed religious conflicts
- pt. 3. Conflicts over the spice trade fair
- pt. 4. Epilogue and conclusion.
- Notes:
- B. The Captain: Countering the Merchants.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-47070-5
- 9786613470706
- 90-04-22200-6
- OCLC:
- 775301943
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004222007 DOI
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