Full title: Trade and traders in Muslim Spain : the commercial realignment of the Iberian peninsula, 900-1500 / Olivia Remie Constable.

Author/creator: Constable, Olivia Remie.

Date: 1994..

Call Numbers: N380.10946/1

Record Identifier: 74VvGzLdW3Zl

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xxiv, 320 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm., 1. The market at the edge of the west -- 2. Al-Andalus within the Mediterranean network: geography, routes and communications before the thirteenth century. Andalusi geography and ports. Andalusi shipping. Al-Andalus and the Muslim Mediterranean commercial network. Al-Andalus and the Christian commercial network -- 3. The merchant profession in Muslim Spain and the medieval Mediterranean. Merchant typology and association. Merchant partnerships -- 4. The merchants in Andalusi trade. Merchants in Andalusi trade until ca. 1150. Merchants in the Peninsula 1150-1250: the Christian commercial conquest -- 5. Merchant business and Andalusi government authority. Ports and port officials. Shipping and transportation. Taxes and tolls. Prices and availability of goods -- 6. Commodities and patterns of trade in the medieval Mediterranean world. Patterns of commodity production and problems of interpretation. Mediterranean commodities and Andalusi imports -- 7. Andalusi exports before 1212., Commodities of Andalusi production and export. Al-Andalus as a transfer zone: furs, gold and slaves -- 8. Continuities and changes in Iberian exports after 1212. Continuities in Exports. The decline of Andalusi silk. New Iberian exports. Discontinuities and prohibitions -- 9. Spain, northern Europe, and the Mediterranean in the Late Middle Ages. Atlantic and Mediterranean trade. The new role of Iberian ports. The new structure of merchant power. Late medieval Iberia and the world commercial system.

Publishers: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Notes: Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 24. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-306) and index.

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DDC: 380.109460902

MMS ID: 991012586539702626