Trading conflicts : Venetian merchants and Mamluk officials in late medieval Alexandria
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Trading conflicts : Venetian merchants and Mamluk officials in late medieval Alexandria
(The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1453 / editors, Michael Whitby ... [et al.], v. 93)
Brill, 2012
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Based on the author's thesis in German (doctoral)--University Basel, 2006
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-355) and index
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Description
Analysing different conflicts in Late Medieval Alexandria, this book offers new insights into the micro-mechanics of Venetian life and trade in Egypt and recalibrates the narrative of the strictly regulated and often violent contacts between East and West. This thorough microanalysis, based on the private archive of a Venetian merchant and consul in Alexandria read in conjunction with other Venetian and Mamluk sources, provides a differentiated image of conflict patterns cutting across the cultural divide. It transforms our image of Alexandria as a city at the intersection of Orient and Occident into that of a microcosm in its own right where disputes did not always fall neatly along cultural divides and conflicts were traded as much as trade created conflicts.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables ...xiii
Acknowledgements ...xv
Transcription of Arabic Words and Unifijication of Date ...xvii
I Introduction ...1
PART ONE
FRAMEWORK: VENETIAN MERCHANTS IN ALEXANDRIA - BIOGRAPHY OF BIAGIO DOLFIN
II Levant Trade ...19
III Venetian Commercial Privileges in the Mamluk Empire ...45
IV The Venetian Consulate in Alexandria ...55
V Biagio Dolfijin - Public Servant and Merchant ...97
PART TWO
PRESUMED RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS
VI Crusade and Levant Trade ...113
VII Slave Trade and Solidarities ...121
VIII Venice as Protector of Pilgrims and the Importance of the cortexia ...143
IX Per onor di san Marcho - Wanderings of St Mark's Head ...155
X Shed Wine - Anti-Christian Riots in Alexandria? ...167
PART THREE
CONFLICTS OVER THE SPICE TRADE FAIR
XI Prolungar la muda - Conflict over the Spice Fair's Deadline ...187
XII Non per pato, ma per complaxer - Modalities of the Customs Clearance ...209
XIII Per cholpa, defeto et triste maniere - The Conflict Surrounding the Sultan's Pepper ...229
XIV The Case of Giacomo Zorzi: Release of a Debt Prisoner ...251
PART FOUR
EPILOGUE AND CONCLUSION
XV Epilogue: Montar al Caiero - Quasi-Martyrdom of the Consul? ...273
XVI Conclusion - Types of Truth ...281
APPENDICES
I Partial Reconstruction of Biagio Dolfijin's Correspondence ...293
II Transcription of Venetian Texts ...305
III Documents ...307
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1 Sources ...331
2 Selected Studies ...335
3 Reference Works ...354
Index ...
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