Introduction: The international influence of Venice
Part I: Venetian merchant in Constantinople
Chapter 1
Badoer and the raw materials trade
"Giacomo Badoer et le commerce de l’alun et des cendres à Constantinople au XVe siècle", Thesaurismata, Bollettino dell’Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini, 37 (2007), Venise, pp. 87–100
Chapter 2
Badoer, the drapery and the bartering
"Giacomo Badoer, marchand-drapier à Constantinople et les draps du Nord", Atti dell’Istituto Veneto di Sc., L ed A., tomo CLV (2001–2002), cl. di Sc morali, lettere ed arti, pp. 71–89
Chapter 3
Maritime activity in Constantinople
"Ships, sailors and maritime activity in Constantinople (1436–1440)", The Journal of European Economic History, vol. 30/3, 2001, pp. 533–567
Chapter 4
The business network of Giacomo Badoer
"Le réseau d’affaires de Giacomo Badoer marchand vénitien à Constantinople (1436–1440)", Studi Veneziani, LIV (2010), pp. 179–200
Part II: Salt, taxes and ecology
Chapter 5
The salt pans of Chioggia
"The salt pans of Chioggia, which flourished in 1200, disappeared in 1553", unpublished
Chapter 6
Diversity of the Venetian salt monopoly
"Diversità del monopolio veneziano del sale (secoli XIII-XV)", Sal terrae. The legal regulation of the production and the marketing of salt in late medieval Italy, Law Faculty of the University of Parma, 20 février 2025
Chapter 7
Credit in the Venetian salt economy
Studi Veneziani, LI-LII (2006), pp. 133–144
Part III: Shipping and maritime trade
Chapter 8
Maritime trade routes
"Les routes maritimes du commerce vénitien aux XVe et XVIe siècles", Atti del V Convegno internazionale di studi colombiani, Navi e navigazione nei sec. XV e XVI, (Gênes, 26–28 oct. 1987), Gênes 1990, pp. 581–605
Chapter 9
The Venetian colony of Ayas/Lajazzo
"Les activités de la colonie vénitienne d’Ayas/Lajazzo en Petite Arménie (1316–1318)", Studi in onore di Maria Fancesca Tiepolo, Thesaurismata, Institut grec d’Études byzantines et néobyzantines, Venise, 45 (2015), 2017, pp. 123–135
Chapter 10
The way to Flanders in the 15th century
"Le marchand de Venise sur la route de Flandre au xve siècle", Histoire et Mesure, 34 (2019), pp. 125–152
Chapter 11
The merchant elites in the 14th century
"Solidarités familiales et solidarités marchandes à Venise au XIVe siècle", Les élites urbaines au Moyen Age, Age (XXVIIe Congrès de la SHMES, Rome, 23–27 mai 1996), Paris 1997, 461 pp. 227–255
Part IV: Greatness and miseries
Chapter 12
Venice and the Turks
"The Cultural et Historical Context. Venice and the Turks", Venice and the Islamic World, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts & Yale University Press, New York, New Haven & Londres, 35–51. Ateneo Veneto, anno CCIII, ser. 3a, 15/II (2016), pp. 10–23
Chapter 13
Conclusion: the Adriatic, Gulf of Venice?
"L’Adriatique, golfe de Venise ? Commerce, ports et relations à la fin du Moyen Âge", D. IGUAL LUIS et J. L. SOLER MILLA éds, Comercio internacional, conectividad marítima y espacios portuarios en la Baja Edad Media, pp. 13–32, Anales de la Universidad de Alicante. 23 (2022)
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Biography
Jean-Claude Hocquet (1936) is a university professor who has taught at universities in Paris, Venice and Lille, and has given lectures at foreign universities and international conferences. Professor and director of research at the National Centre for Scientific Research and School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris), he is the author of a thesis, 40 books, many of which have been translated, and numerous articles on Venice, whose archives and libraries he has frequented since 1958. A specialist in the history of salt, maritime trade and taxation, and the history of weights and measures, he is a scientific advisor to several international journals. He is now retired from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and lives in Lille.
