1st Edition
Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages Pegolotti’s Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context
By Thomas Sinclair
Copyright 2020
450 Pages
by
Routledge
450 Pages
by
Routledge
450 Pages
by
Routledge
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At the end of the High Middle Ages in Europe, with buying power and economic sophistication at a high, an itinerary detailing the toll stations along a commercial artery carrying eastern goods (from China, India and Iran) towards Europe was compiled, and later incorporated in the well-known trading manual of the Florentine bank official Pegolotti; Pegolotti was twice stationed in the city of... Read more
List of figures and maps
Transliteration, symbols etc.,
Author’s preface
PART A. INTRODUCTORY
- The Documents and the Routes
- The Commercial Background
PART B. THE AYAS-TABRIZ ITINERARY
- Ayas to Sivas
- From Sivaz to Erzincan
- From Erzincan to Erzurum
- From Erzurum to Tabriz
PART C. CONCLUSIONS
Appendix I. Ottoman Routes of the 16th to 18th Centuries in the Sivas-Erzurum Sector
Appendix II. Coins
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Thomas Sinclair was a professor of Turkish History at the Department of Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies in the University of Cyprus. He is the author of Eastern Turkey: An Architectural and Archaeological Survey (4 volumes, 1987-90) and writes principally on economy and administration in Armenia during the late pre-Ottoman and early Ottoman periods.
