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Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World

Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

By: Olivia Remie Constable

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Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World

Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

By: Olivia Remie Constable

The Greek pandocheion, Arabic funduq, and Latin fundicum (fondaco) were ubiquitous in the Mediterranean sphere for nearly two millennia. These institutions were not only hostelries for traders and travelers, but also taverns, markets, warehouses, and sites for commercial taxation and regulation. In this highly original study, Professor Constable traces the complex evolution of this family of institutions from the pandocheion in Late Antiquity, to the appearance of the funduq throughout the Muslim Mediterranean following the rise of Islam. By the twelfth century, with the arrival of European merchants in Islamic markets, the funduq evolved into the fondaco. These merchant colonies facilitated trade and travel between Muslim and Christian regions. Before long, fondacos also appeared in southern European cities. This study of the diffusion of this institutional family demonstrates common economic interests and cross-cultural communications across the medieval Mediterranean world, and provides a striking contribution to our understanding of this region.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139449680

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To Live Like a Moor

Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

By: Olivia Remie Constable

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To Live Like a Moor

Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

By: Olivia Remie Constable

To Live Like a Moor traces the many shifts in Christian perceptions of Islam-associated ways of life which took place across the centuries between early Reconquista efforts of the eleventh century and the final expulsions of Spain's converted yet poorly assimilated Morisco population in the seventeenth.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812249488

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9780812249484

Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain

The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500

By: Olivia Remie Constable

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Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain

The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500

By: Olivia Remie Constable

This volume surveys Iberian international trade from the tenth to the fifteenth century, with particular emphasis on commerce in the Muslim period and on changes brought by Christian conquest of much of Muslim Spain in the thirteenth century. From the tenth to the thirteenth century, markets in the Iberian peninsula were closely linked to markets elsewhere in the Islamic world, and a strong east-west Mediterranean trading network linked Cairo with Cordoba. Following routes along the North African coast, Muslim and Jewish merchants carried eastern goods to Muslim Spain, returning eastwards with Andalusi exports. Situated at the edge of the Islamic west, Andalusi markets were also emporia for the transfer of commodities between the Islamic world and Christian Europe. After the thirteenth century the Iberian peninsula became part of the European economic sphere, its commercial realignment aided by the opening of the Straits of Gibraltar to Christian trade, and by the contemporary demise of the Muslim trading network in the Mediterranean.

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0521565030

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9780521565035

Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World

Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

By: Olivia Remie Constable

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Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World

Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World

To Live Like a Moor

To Live Like a Moor

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Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain

Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World

Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World

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