| Description |
1 online resource (384 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 93
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Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 93.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Transcription of Arabic Words and Unification of Date; Chapter One Introduction; A. Review of Research Literature; B. Sources: The Commissaria Biagio Dolfin and Other Archival Sources; C. Analysing Conflicts; Part One Framework: Venetian Merchants in Alexandria -- Biography of Biagio Dolfin; Chapter Two Levant Trade; A. Background: Levant Trade and its Routes; B. Transit Trade Under the Mamluks; C. Venice -- Not Just a Maritime Republic; D. Mercantile Correspondence; E. Sedentary Merchants and their Agents. |
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Chapter Three Venetian Commercial Privileges in the Mamluk EmpireA. Background: Islamic Law under the Mamluks; B. Christian Merchants: Caught Between jihâd and amân; C. The Commercial Privileges of 1415; Chapter Four The Venetian Consulate in Alexandria; A. Background: Alexandria; B. Locating the Consulate: Alexandria Versus Cairo; C. Consulate, Council of Twelve and fondaco; D. Cottimo, consolazio -- Venetian Public Finance in Alexandria; E. The Business Year in Alexandria -- the mude; F. Alexandrians: Officials, Intermediaries and Merchants. |
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Chapter Five Biagio Dolfin -- Public Servant and MerchantA. Biagio Dolfin: A Short Biography; B. Biagio Dolfin in Alexandria: The Power of a Merchant's Past; C. Biagio Dolfin's Character; D. Conclusion: Merchant and Consul -- Importance of Family; Part Two Presumed Religious Conflicts; Chapter Six Crusade and Levant Trade; A. Crusade as a Weapon: Trade Restrictions and Rhetoric; B. Crusade and Salvation of the Soul: Emanuele Piloti and Mercantile Ethics; C. Conclusion: Harmonising Crusade and Trade; Chapter Seven Slave Trade and Solidarities; A. Slaves in the Mamluk Empire. |
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B. Slaves of the VenetiansC. Order and Transport of Slaves; D. Anime and famuli in Alexandria; E. Conclusion: Slaves Between Race and Religion; Chapter Eight Venice as Protector of Pilgrims and the Power of the Cortexia; A. Background: Pilgrims in Alexandria and Cairo; B. Litigation Over the Purchase of Spices and Settlement of the Conflict in Cairo and Alexandria; C. The Cost of an Audience with the Sultan; D. Conclusion: Power of the cortexia; Chapter Nine Per onor di san Marcho -- Wanderings of St Mark's Head; A. Background: St Mark Evangelist in Alexandria and Venice. |
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B. Venetians Acquire St Mark's HeadC. Copts Prevent the Shipping of the Relic; D. Conclusion: Translatio -- Wanderings of Saints' Relics Towards Emerging Centres; Chapter Ten Shed Wine -- Anti-Christian Riots in Alexandria?; A. Background: Wine Consumption and Wine Trade in Egypt; B. Riots and Venetian Reaction; C.?Âmma -- 'Common' People in Crisis; D. Conclusion: Shedding Wine Instead of Blood; Part Three Conflicts Over the Spice Trade Fair; Chapter Eleven Prolungar la muda -- Conflict over the Spice Fair's Deadline; A. Background: Regulation of the muda. |
| Note |
B. The Captain: Countering the Merchants. |
| Summary |
Based on Mamluk and Venetian sources, this book offers a thorough analysis of the various conflicts arising around Levant trade. It demonstrates how these conflicts more often than not cut across cultural divides in Late Medieval Mamluk Alexandria. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dolfin, Biagio, -1420.
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Dolfin, Biagio, -1420. |
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Italians -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History -- To 1500.
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Italians. |
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Egypt -- Alexandria. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Mamelukes -- History -- To 1500.
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Mamelukes. |
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Italians -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Merchants -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Biography.
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Merchants. |
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Consuls -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- Biography.
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Consuls. |
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Social conflict -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- History -- To 1500.
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Social conflict. |
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Alexandria (Egypt) -- Social conditions.
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Alexandria (Egypt) -- Commerce -- History.
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Venice (Italy) -- Commerce -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786613470706 (DLC) 2011042150 |
| ISBN |
9789004222007 (electronic book) |
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9004222006 (electronic book) |
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9789004221994 (Cloth) |
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9004221999 (Cloth) |
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1283470705 |
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9781283470704 |
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9789004222007 |
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9004222006 |
| Standard No. |
9786613470706 |
