Housing the stranger in the Mediterranean world lodging, trade, and travel in late antiquity and the Middle Ages / [electronic resource] :
Olivia Remie Constable.
- Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, c2003.
- xii, 427 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm.
- ACLS Fellows’ publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-404) and index.
'Accepting all comers': a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity -- The transition from Byzantium to the Dar al-Islam -- Commerce, charity, community, and the Funduq -- Colonies before colonialism: western trade and the evolution of the Fondaco -- Conquest and commercial space: the case of Iberia -- Fondacos in Sicily, South Italy, and the crusader states -- Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the later middle ages -- Christian commerce and the solidification of the Fondaco system -- The Fondaco in Mediterranean Europe.