Levant Trade in the Middle Ages

✍ Scribed by Eliyahu Ashtor

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 622
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book is based on Arabic sources, documents in archives of centers of Levantine trade, and material from the files of the firm of Francesco Datini. From the fall of Acre to the journey of Vasco de Gama, the author provides an invaluable description of late medieval Mediterranean trade.

Originally published in 1984.

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✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
I The Crisis of Levant Trade (1291-1344)
II Back to Egypt and Syria (1345-1370)
III A New Period of Growth (1370-1402)
IV The Ascendancy of Venice (1403-1421)
V A New Crisis (1422-1452)
VI The Levant Trader at Home and Overseas
VII Mediaeval Levant Trade at Its Height (1453-1498)
Appendices
Bibliography
Index