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Trading Conflicts
Venetian Merchants and Mamluk Officials in Late Medieval Alexandria
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Georg L.K.A. Christ
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2012
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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.
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Georg Christ, Dr. phil. (2006) in History of the Middle Ages, Universität Basel, is a research group leader at Universität Heidelberg. He has published on topics in Late Medieval trade history, including news management, navigation and urban history.
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eBook published on:
January 20, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9789004222007
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Main content:
366
eBook ISBN:
9789004222007
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars and public interested in Late Medieval and Early Modern cultural, legal and economic history, Mamluk and Mediterranean studies, history of Religion, Islam studies; Venetian, trade, and urban history.
