Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World : Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Olivia Remie. Constable
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press, , 2004.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (441 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: "Accepting all comers": a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity; CHAPTER 2: The transition from Byzantium to the Dar al-Islam; CHAPTER 3: Commerce, charity, community, and the funduq; CHAPTER 4: Colonies before colonialism: western Christian trade and the evolution of the fondaco; CHAPTER 5: Conquest and commercial space: the case of Iberia; CHAPTER 6: Fondacos in Sicily, south Italy, and the Crusader states. - CHAPTER 7: Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the later middle agesCHAPTER 8: Christian commerce and the solidification of the fondaco system; CHAPTER 9: The fondaco in Mediterranean Europe; CONCLUSION: A changing world: new peoples and institutions in the early modern Mediterranean; Selected Bibliography; Index. - 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.
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| ISBN | 0521819180
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