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Author Constable, Olivia Remie.

Title Housing the stranger in the Mediterranean world [electronic resource] : lodging, trade, and travel in late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Olivia Remie Constable.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2003.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 427 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm.
Series ACLS Fellows' publications.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-404) and index.
Contents '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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2013. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Hotels -- Mediterranean Region -- History.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form: Original 9780521819183 0521819180 (DLC) 2003043585
Standard No. 2027/heb30998 hdl

 
    
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