The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade Around Europe 1300-1600: Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy

ISBN-13: 9780367872946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 502 str.

Wim Blockmans; Mikhail Krom; Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz

Opis

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. The collection takes as its central question how shippers and merchants were able to connect regional and interregional trade circu

Spis treści

List of figures

Preface

Notes on Contributors

1. Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz







‘Maritime Trade around Europe, 1300-1600. Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy’








Thematic Aspects









2. Richard W. Unger







‘Ships and Sailing Routes in Maritime Trade around Europe, 1300-1600’









3. Stuart Jenks







‘Capturing Opportunity, Financing Trade’









4. Donatella Calabi







‘Trading Spaces in European Port Cities: The Architectural Models of Bourses, Lonjas, and Exchanges’









5. Agnete Nesse







‘Trade and Language: How did Traders Communicate Across Language Borders?’









6. Albrecht Cordes







‘Lex Maritima? Local, Regional and Universal Maritime Law in the Middle Ages’








The Mediterranean









7. Monique O’Connell







‘Venice: City of Merchants or City for Merchandise?’









8. Georg Christ







‘Collapse and Continuity: Alexandria as a Declining City with a Thriving Port (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)’









9. Lovro Kuncevic







‘The Maritime Trading Network of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century’









10. Luisa Piccinno







‘Genoa: a City with a Port or a Port City?’









11. Carlo Taviani







‘The Genoese Casa di San Giorgio as a Micro-Economic and Territorial Nodal System’









12. Thierry Pécout







‘Marseille: A Supporting Role’









13. David Igual Luis







‘Valencia: Opportunities of a Secondary Node’








The Baltic









14. Carsten Jahnke







‘Lübeck and the Hanse: a Queen Without Its Body’









15. Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz







‘Danzig (Gdańsk): seeking stability and autonomy’









16. Anu Män

O autorze

Wim Blockmans is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Leiden. His previous publications include Introduction to Medieval Europe, 2nd edition, with Peter Hoppenbrouwers (2014).

Mikhail Krom Professor of Comparative Studies in History at the European University at St. Petersburg.

Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz is Assistant Professor in Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam.