Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A culture of travel: words, institutions, and connections
- 1 “Accepting all comers”: a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity
- 2 The transition from Byzantium to the Dār al-Islām
- 3 Commerce, charity, community, and the funduq
- 4 Colonies before colonialism: western Christian trade and the evolution of the fondaco
- 5 Conquest and commercial space: the case of Iberia
- 6 Fondacos in Sicily, south Italy, and the Crusader states
- 7 Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the later middle ages
- 8 Christian commerce and the solidification of the fondaco system
- 9 The fondaco in Mediterranean Europe
- Conclusion A changing world: new peoples and institutions in the early modern Mediterranean
- Selected bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 August 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A culture of travel: words, institutions, and connections
- 1 “Accepting all comers”: a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity
- 2 The transition from Byzantium to the Dār al-Islām
- 3 Commerce, charity, community, and the funduq
- 4 Colonies before colonialism: western Christian trade and the evolution of the fondaco
- 5 Conquest and commercial space: the case of Iberia
- 6 Fondacos in Sicily, south Italy, and the Crusader states
- 7 Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the later middle ages
- 8 Christian commerce and the solidification of the fondaco system
- 9 The fondaco in Mediterranean Europe
- Conclusion A changing world: new peoples and institutions in the early modern Mediterranean
- Selected bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean WorldLodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004