Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents

with a New Foreword by Olivia Remie Constable and Olivia Remie Constable and Ir Translated by Robert S. Lopez and Iriving W. Raymond

Paper, 496 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12357-0
$31.00 / £18.00

new edition
October, 2001
Cloth, 496 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12356-3
$83.50 / £49.00

This collection of merchant documents is essential reading for any student of economic developments in the Middle Ages who wishes to go beyond the level of textbook summaries. Different aspects of economic life in the Mediterranean world are delineated in the light of a rich variety of articles and other contemporary writings, drawn from Muslim and Christian sources. From commercial contracts, promissory notes, and judicial acts to working manuals of practical geography and philology, this volume of documents provides an unparalleled portrait of the world of medieval commerce.

Related Subjects

• Medieval History

Series

• Records of Western Civilization Series

About the Author

Robert S. Lopez was professor of history at Yale University. Irving W. Raymond was professor of history at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Olivia Remie Constable is associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.

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