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The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600: Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy book cover

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The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy

Edited By Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom, Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz Copyright 2017
524 Pages
by Routledge

522 Pages
by Routledge

522 Pages
by Routledge
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The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas. Maritime trade routes connected diverse geographical and cultural spheres, contributing to a more integrated Europe in both cultural and material terms. This volume explores networks’... Read more

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Preface



Notes on Contributors









  1. Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz




    2. ‘Maritime Trade around Europe, 1300-1600. Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy’





    Thematic Aspects





  2. Richard W. Unger




    3. ‘Ships and Sailing Routes in Maritime Trade around Europe, 1300-1600’





  3. Stuart Jenks




    4. ‘Capturing Opportunity, Financing Trade’





  4. Donatella Calabi




    5. ‘Trading Spaces in European Port Cities: The Architectural Models of Bourses, Lonjas, and Exchanges’





  5. Agnete Nesse




    6. ‘Trade and Language: How did Traders Communicate Across Language Borders?’





  6. Albrecht Cordes




    7. ‘Lex Maritima? Local, Regional and Universal Maritime Law in the Middle Ages’





    The Mediterranean





  7. Monique O’Connell




    8. ‘Venice: City of Merchants or City for Merchandise?’





  8. Georg Christ




    9. ‘Collapse and Continuity: Alexandria as a Declining City with a Thriving Port (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)’





  9. Lovro Kuncevic




    10. ‘The Maritime Trading Network of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century’





  10. Luisa Piccinno




    11. ‘Genoa: a City with a Port or a Port City?’





  11. Carlo Taviani




    12. ‘The Genoese Casa di San Giorgio as a Micro-Economic and Territorial Nodal System’





  12. Thierry Pécout




    13. ‘Marseille: A Supporting Role’





  13. David Igual Luis




    14. ‘Valencia: Opportunities of a Secondary Node’





    The Baltic





  14. Carsten Jahnke




    15. ‘Lübeck and the Hanse: a Queen Without Its Body’





  15. Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz




    16. ‘Danzig (Gdańsk): seeking stability and autonomy’





  16. Anu Män

Biography

Wim Blockmans is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Leiden. His previous publications include Introduction to Medieval Europe, 2nd edition, with Peter Hoppenbrouwers (2014).





Mikhail Krom Professor of Comparative Studies in History at the European University at St. Petersburg.





Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz is Assistant Professor in Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam.





　



　

This comprehensive handbook is a fascinating resource for all those interested in the early history of European maritime trade. The highly stimulating volume entices the reader to undertake a magnificent journey to visit important maritime ports and thus to rethink the early stages of European integration.

Jüri Kivimäe, University of Toronto, Canada

This volume is a much needed synthesis of European Medieval Maritime trade, which presents an up to date state of the art of this active field. Its detailed case-studies and comparative framework will be useful both for students and for scholars.

Maria Fusaro, University of Exeter, UK

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