David Abulafia
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
360
1993
From the 12th century onwards merchants from the north Italian and southern French towns were able to take advantage of Christian conquests in southern Italy Sicily and the Levant to penetrate and dominate the markets of these regions and of North Africa. The articles collected in this volume examine the economic social and religious impact of this combination of trade and conquest . They include studies of the survival of Jews and Muslims in Sicily of the debate about the 'under-development' of medieval southern Italy Sicily and Sardinia of relations between the rulers of those regions and the merchants and of mercantile penetration into the kingdom of Jerusalem Cyprus and Tunis in the wake of Crusaders and Sicilian kings.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
360
1993
From the 12th century onwards merchants from the north Italian and southern French towns were able to take advantage of Christian conquests in southern Italy Sicily and the Levant to penetrate and dominate the markets of these regions and of North Africa. The articles collected in this volume examine the economic social and religious impact of this combination of trade and conquest . They include studies of the survival of Jews and Muslims in Sicily of the debate about the 'under-development' of medieval southern Italy Sicily and Sardinia of relations between the rulers of those regions and the merchants and of mercantile penetration into the kingdom of Jerusalem Cyprus and Tunis in the wake of Crusaders and Sicilian kings.