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Trading conflicts : Venetian merchants and Mamluk officials in late Medieval Alexandria /
Based on Mamluk and Venetian sources, this book offers a thorough analysis of the various conflicts arising around Levant trade. It demonstrates how these conflicts more often than not cut across cultural divides in Late Medieval Mamluk Alexandria.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Colección: | Medieval Mediterranean ;
v. 93. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Transcription of Arabic Words and Unification of Date; Chapter One Introduction; A. Review of Research Literature; B. Sources: The Commissaria Biagio Dolfin and Other Archival Sources; C. Analysing Conflicts; Part One Framework: Venetian Merchants in Alexandria
- Biography of Biagio Dolfin; Chapter Two Levant Trade; A. Background: Levant Trade and its Routes; B. Transit Trade Under the Mamluks; C. Venice
- Not Just a Maritime Republic; D. Mercantile Correspondence; E. Sedentary Merchants and their Agents.
- Chapter Three Venetian Commercial Privileges in the Mamluk EmpireA. Background: Islamic Law under the Mamluks; B. Christian Merchants: Caught Between jihâd and amân; C. The Commercial Privileges of 1415; Chapter Four The Venetian Consulate in Alexandria; A. Background: Alexandria; B. Locating the Consulate: Alexandria Versus Cairo; C. Consulate, Council of Twelve and fondaco; D. Cottimo, consolazio
- Venetian Public Finance in Alexandria; E. The Business Year in Alexandria
- the mude; F. Alexandrians: Officials, Intermediaries and Merchants.
- Chapter Five Biagio Dolfin
- Public Servant and MerchantA. Biagio Dolfin: A Short Biography; B. Biagio Dolfin in Alexandria: The Power of a Merchant's Past; C. Biagio Dolfin's Character; D. Conclusion: Merchant and Consul
- Importance of Family; Part Two Presumed Religious Conflicts; Chapter Six Crusade and Levant Trade; A. Crusade as a Weapon: Trade Restrictions and Rhetoric; B. Crusade and Salvation of the Soul: Emanuele Piloti and Mercantile Ethics; C. Conclusion: Harmonising Crusade and Trade; Chapter Seven Slave Trade and Solidarities; A. Slaves in the Mamluk Empire.
- B. Slaves of the VenetiansC. Order and Transport of Slaves; D. Anime and famuli in Alexandria; E. Conclusion: Slaves Between Race and Religion; Chapter Eight Venice as Protector of Pilgrims and the Power of the Cortexia; A. Background: Pilgrims in Alexandria and Cairo; B. Litigation Over the Purchase of Spices and Settlement of the Conflict in Cairo and Alexandria; C. The Cost of an Audience with the Sultan; D. Conclusion: Power of the cortexia; Chapter Nine Per onor di san Marcho
- Wanderings of St Mark's Head; A. Background: St Mark Evangelist in Alexandria and Venice.
- B. Venetians Acquire St Mark's HeadC. Copts Prevent the Shipping of the Relic; D. Conclusion: Translatio
- Wanderings of Saints' Relics Towards Emerging Centres; Chapter Ten Shed Wine
- Anti-Christian Riots in Alexandria?; A. Background: Wine Consumption and Wine Trade in Egypt; B. Riots and Venetian Reaction; C.?Âmma
- 'Common' People in Crisis; D. Conclusion: Shedding Wine Instead of Blood; Part Three Conflicts Over the Spice Trade Fair; Chapter Eleven Prolungar la muda
- Conflict over the Spice Fair's Deadline; A. Background: Regulation of the muda.