Medieval Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond

The articles in this collection cover the region extending from Italy to the Black Sea and to Egypt, over a period of seven centuries, with an emphasis on the considerable economic and social interaction between the West and the regions of the Eastern Mediterranean. They represent key works in the oeuvre of David Jacoby, the doyen of scholars in the field over many decades.

Autorentext

David Jacoby is Professor Emeritus of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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• "Venetian Commercial Expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean, 8th-11th centuries", in Marlia Mundell Mango, ed., Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries. The Archaeology of Local, Regional and International Exchange (Papers of the Thirty-eight Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St. John's College, University of Oxford, March 2004), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 371-391

• "The Venetians in Byzantine and Lusignan Cyprus: Trade, Settlement, and Politics", in A. Nicolaou-Konnari, ed., La Serenissima and la Nobilissima: Venice in Cyprus and Cyprus in Venice, Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 2009, pp. 59-100
  

• "Commercio e navigazione degli Amalfitani nel Mediterraneo orientale: sviluppo e decline", in Bruno Figliuolo e Pinuccia F. Simbula, eds., Interscambi socio-culturali ed economici fra le città marinare d'Italia e l'Occidente dagli osservatorî mediterranei, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi , Amalfi 14-16 maggio 2011, Amalfi: Centro di Cultura e Storia Amalfitana, 2014, pp. 89-128

• "The Economic Function of the Crusader States of the Levant: a New Approach", in S. Cavaciocchi, ed., Relazioni economiche tra Europa e mondo islamico. Secc. XIII-XVIII (Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini", Atti delle Settimane di Studi e altri convegni, 38/1), Firenze: Le Monnier, 2007, pp. 159-191 *

• "Acre-Alexandria: A Major Commercial Axis of the Thirteenth Century", in Marina Montesano, ed., "Come l'orco della fiaba". Studi per Franco Cardini, Firenze: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010, pp. 151-167

• "Marco Polo, His Close Relatives, and His Travel Account: Some New Insights", Mediterranean Historical Review, 21 (2006), pp. 193-218

• "Byzantium, the Italian Maritime Powers, and the Black Sea before 1204", Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 100 (2007), pp. 677-699

• "Mediterranean Food and Wine for Constantinople: The Long-Distance Trade, Eleventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century", in Ewald Kislinger, Johannes Koder, Andreas Külzer, eds, Handelsgüter und Verkehrswege. Aspekte der Warenversorgung im östlichen Mittelmeerraum (4. bis 15. Jahrhundert) (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Denkschriften, 388. Band), Wien, 2010, pp. 127-147
  

• "Rural Exploitation and Market Economy in the Late Medieval Peloponnese", in Sharon E. J. Gerstel, ed., Viewing the Morea. Land and People in the Late Medieval Peloponnese, Harvard University Press, 2013, pp. 213-275

• "Jews and Christians in Venetian Crete: Segregation, Interaction, and Conflict", in Uwe Israel, Robert Jütte, Reinhold C. Mueller, eds., «Interstizi»: Culture ebraico-cristiane a Venezia e nei suoi domini dal medioevo all'età moderna (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Ricerche 5), Roma: Storia e Letteratua, 2010, pp. 239-279