Commercial Exchange Across the Mediterranean

Contents: Preface; Byzantine trade with Egypt from the mid-10th century to the Fourth Crusade; The supply of war materials to Egypt in the crusader period; The Venetian quarter of Constantinople from 1082 to 1261: topographical considerations; The trade of crusader Acre in the Levantine context: an overview; The Venetian privileges in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem: 12th and 13th-century interpretations and implementation; Migration, trade and banking in crusader Acre; Creta e Venezia nel contesto economico del Mediterraneo orientale sino alla metA del Quattrocento; Cretan cheese: a neglected aspect of Venetian medieval trade; Changing economic patterns in Latin Romania: the impact of the West; Dalla materia prima ai drappi tra Bisanzio, il Levante e Venezia: la prima fase dell'industria serica veneziana; Genoa, silk trade and silk manufacture in the Mediterranean region (ca. 1100-1300); The production of silk textiles in Latin Greece; Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.