Olivia Remie Constable is an associate professor in the History Department at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula 900-1500 (CUP, 1994) and Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources (1997).
Introduction: a culture of travel: words institutions, and connections
1. Accepting all comers': a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity
2. the transition from Byzantium to the Dar al-Islam
3. Commerce, charity, community, and the funduq
4. Colonies before colonialism: western Christian trade and the evolution of the fondaco
5. Conquest and commercial space: the case of Iberia
6. Fondacos in Sicily, south Italy, and the Crusader states
7. Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the later middle ages
8. Christian commerce and the solidification of the fondaco system
9. The fondaco in Mediterranean Europe
Conclusion: a changing world: new peoples and institutions in the early modern Mediterranean
Bibliography
Index.
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