Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900–1500 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0521565030 ISBN 13: 9780521565035

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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This volume surveys Iberian international trade from the tenth to the fifteenth century, with particular emphasis on commerce in the Muslim period and on changes brought by Christian conquest of much of Muslim Spain in the thirteenth century. From the tenth to the thirteenth century, markets in the Iberian peninsula were closely linked to markets elsewhere in the Islamic world, and a strong east-west Mediterranean trading network linked Cairo with Cordoba. Following routes along the North African coast, Muslim and Jewish merchants carried eastern goods to Muslim Spain, returning eastwards with Andalusi exports. Situated at the edge of the Islamic west, Andalusi markets were also emporia for the transfer of commodities between the Islamic world and Christian Europe. After the thirteenth century the Iberian peninsula became part of the European economic sphere, its commercial realignment aided by the opening of the Straits of Gibraltar to Christian trade, and by the contemporary demise of the Muslim trading network in the Mediterranean.

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'... extensively researched ... Providing over 50 pages of bibliography, the book will stand as a major work of reference for many years to come.' Economic History Review

' ... this book will stand as a major work of reference for many years to come.' Economic History Review

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This volume surveys Iberian international trade from the tenth to the fifteenth century, with particular emphasis on commerce in the Muslim period and on changes brought by Christian conquest of much of Muslim Spain in the thirteenth century.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521565030
• ISBN 13: 9780521565035
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352