The Merchant of Venice: the Activity of Patricians in the Late Middle Ages /

For the first time, The Merchant of Venice looks at the place and role of the late medieval merchant nobility in the great international trade that took place in the world known at the time, from China and Asia to Flanders and England. These merchants who travelled the world were also shipowners, sa...

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Main Author: Hocquet, Jean-Claude (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
The Medieval Mediterranean ; 144.

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Call Number: D410

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Chapter 1 The Merchant, and His Family /
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  • Chapter 2 The State and Market Society /
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  • Chapter 3 Foreign Merchants and Subject Merchants in Venice /
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  • Chapter 4 The Internal Market: Supplies of Food and Other Products /
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  • Chapter 5 Navigation, Ships, and Freight /
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  • Chapter 6 The Orient and Its Riches: the Colonial Empire /
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  • Chapter 7 The Orient: Greeks, Jews, and Mamlūks /
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  • Chapter 8 Western Products: Wool, Drapery, and Metals /
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  • Chapter 9 Money, and Precious Metals /
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  • Chapter 10 Credit /
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  • Chapter 11 The Merchant, and Tax /
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  • Chapter 12 Humanism, Faith, and Inventions /
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  • Chapter 13 The Merchant in the Countryside /
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  • Chapter 14 Wills of Merchants and Bankers /
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  • Conclusion /
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  • Back Matter
  • Appendix: Account and Bank Money, Weights and Measures /
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  • Bibliography /
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