Buch, Englisch, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 936 g
Reihe: Routledge History Handbooks
Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy
Buch, Englisch, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 936 g
Reihe: Routledge History Handbooks
ISBN: 978-0-367-87294-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas. Maritime trade routes connected diverse geographical and cultural spheres, contributing to a more integrated Europe in both cultural and material terms. This volume explores networks’ economic functions alongside their intercultural exchanges, contacts and practical arrangements in ports on the European coasts.
The collection takes as its central question how shippers and merchants were able to connect regional and interregional trade circuits around and beyond Europe in the late medieval period. It is divided into four parts, with chapters in Part I looking across broad themes such as ships and sailing routes, maritime law, financial linkages and linguistic exchanges. In the following parts - divided into the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic and North Seas - contributors present case studies addressing themes including conflict resolution, relations between different types of main ports and their hinterland, the local institutional arrangements supporting maritime trade, and the advantages and challenges of locations around the continent. The volume concludes with a summary that points to the extraterritorial character of trading systems during this fascinating period of expansion.
Drawing together an international team of contributors, The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe is a vital contribution to the study of maritime history and the history of trade. It is essential reading for students and scholars in these fields.
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Weitere Infos & Material
List of figures
Preface
Notes on Contributors
- Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
‘Maritime Trade around Europe, 1300-1600. Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy’
Thematic Aspects
- Richard W. Unger
‘Ships and Sailing Routes in Maritime Trade around Europe, 1300-1600’
- Stuart Jenks
‘Capturing Opportunity, Financing Trade’
- Donatella Calabi
‘Trading Spaces in European Port Cities: The Architectural Models of Bourses, Lonjas, and Exchanges’
- Agnete Nesse
‘Trade and Language: How did Traders Communicate Across Language Borders?’
- Albrecht Cordes
‘Lex Maritima? Local, Regional and Universal Maritime Law in the Middle Ages’
The Mediterranean
- Monique O’Connell
‘Venice: City of Merchants or City for Merchandise?’
- Georg Christ
‘Collapse and Continuity: Alexandria as a Declining City with a Thriving Port (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)’
- Lovro Kuncevic
‘The Maritime Trading Network of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century’
- Luisa Piccinno
‘Genoa: a City with a Port or a Port City?’
- Carlo Taviani
‘The Genoese Casa di San Giorgio as a Micro-Economic and Territorial Nodal System’
- Thierry Pécout
‘Marseille: A Supporting Role’
- David Igual Luis
‘Valencia: Opportunities of a Secondary Node’
The Baltic
- Carsten Jahnke
‘Lübeck and the Hanse: a Queen Without Its Body’
- Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
‘Danzig (Gdansk): seeking stability and autonomy’
- Anu Män
