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1 Online-Ressource (523 pages)
ISBN:
9781315278568
Series Statement:
Routledge History Handbooks
Content:
The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600- Front Cover -- The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Notes on contributors -- Chapter 1: Maritime trade around Europe 1300-1600: commercial networks and urban autonomy -- Notes -- PART I: Thematic aspects -- Chapter 2: Ships and sailing routes in maritime trade around Europe 1300-1600 -- Geography and wind patterns -- Navigation -- The ships -- Different ships, different shipping patterns and differing port infrastructure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Capturing opportunity, financing trade -- Harbours as centres of information -- Banks and finance -- Financial innovations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Trading spaces in European port cities: the architectural models of bourses, lonjas and exchanges -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Lex Maritima? Local, regional and universal maritime law in the Middle Ages -- Preconditions for exploring pre-modern maritime law -- Central legal institutions of maritime law -- Conclusion: universal maritime law? -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Trade and language: how did traders communicate across language borders? -- Introduction: historical sociolinguistics -- Trade and language -- Language contact -- Trade pidgins -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- PART II: The Mediterranean -- Chapter 7: Venice: city of merchants or city for merchandise? -- Introduction -- Location and hinterland: city, mainland and maritime realms -- Commerce and connections: state policy and patrician economic advantage -- Local institutions and conflict resolution: controlled competition and networks of trust -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Collapse and continuity: Alexandria as a declining city with a thriving port (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)
Content:
Location: port and frontier city -- A port losing its hinterland -- Connections: Alexandria as a hub in the trade with India and regional trade -- Local institutions: consuls between community and metropolis -- Conflict resolution -- Urban transformation and urban transhumance -- Notes -- Chapter 9: The maritime trading network of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century -- Introduction -- The protagonist: Ragusan Republic -- The network in time: Ragusan maritime trade from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century -- Institutions and modus operandi of the Ragusan maritime network -- Conclusion: trade, politics and autonomy in the Ragusan context -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Genoa: a city with a port or a port city? -- Localization and hinterland: the sea as source of supply -- Commercial networks and port evolution -- A cosmopolitan city: foreign merchants, Genoese aristocracy and dockers -- Managing the port and public finance -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 11: The Genoese Casa di San Giorgio as a micro-economic and territorial nodal system -- A double power in Genoa -- Sources and studies on San Giorgio -- San Giorgio's lands and seas -- Homogeneous characteristics of San Giorgio's administration -- The nodal system -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 12: Marseille: a supporting role -- The city and its political context -- A contrasting environment -- A hinterland? -- Long-distance trade and economic activity -- The maritime network -- Notes -- Chapter 13: Valencia: opportunities of a secondary node -- Introduction -- Location advantages and the foundations of a regional economy -- The development of maritime trade in Valencia -- The interrelationship of the city with its kingdom -- The routes that converged on the shores of Valencia -- The political and institutional context of trade
Content:
From conflict resolution to the social status of merchants -- Final considerations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- PART III: The Baltic -- Chapter 14: Lübeck and the Hanse: a queen without its body -- Some remarks on the historiography and the sources for Lübeck and the Hanse -- Location advantage and challenges -- The Lübeck hinterland: dimensions, opportunities for production and exchange -- Connections and balance of the trade -- Local institutions fostering the exchange and conflict resolution -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 15: Danzig (Gdańsk): seeking stability and autonomy -- Location -- Hinterland and connections -- Institutions: keys to stability and autonomy -- Conflict resolution -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Chapter 16: Reval (Tallinn): a city emerging from maritime trade -- Sources and historiography -- Reval, the Hanse and the Novgorod Kontor: becoming part of a network -- The functioning of the network -- Trade partners of Reval and goods exchanged -- Hinterland and the balance of trade -- Maritime transport -- Merchants' organizations: the Great Guild and the Black Heads -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 17: Novgorod: trade, politics and mentalities in the time of independence -- Introduction: sources and historiography -- Location and hinterland -- Novgorod and its main trade partners: from Scandinavia to the Hanse -- Contacts, conflicts, peace-making and mutual (mis)understanding -- Conclusions: Novgorod as a European maritime trade centre -- Notes -- Chapter 18: The city of Pskov in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: Baltic trade and institutional growth -- Introduction: geographic and historiographical context -- The dynamics of Pskov trade -- The structure of Pskov trade -- International contacts, conflicts and their resolution -- Forming an early commune: the law code and the city assembly
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City growth and social differentiation -- Concluding remarks: the rise of the early modern state and the end of urban autonomy -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- PART IV: The Atlantic and the North Sea -- Chapter 19: Lisbon: trade, urban power and the king's visible hand -- Hinterland and domestic market -- Urban council and the king's visible hand -- Mercantile connections -- Solving problems and conflict management -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 20: The maritime trade and society of La Rochelle in the late Middle Ages -- La Rochelle and its banlieue: a centre of production, exchange and redistribution -- The commune: a merchants' association -- The communal institutions and economic privileges -- The fiscal system and commercial policy -- Individual careers and common interests -- Communal institutions and mercantile interests -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 21: 'The goodlyest Haven not of the Lowe Countries only but of all Christendome': the Scheldt estuary as a gateway system 1300-1600 -- Between Bruges, Antwerp and Amsterdam -- The spatial dynamics of maritime connections -- The Scheldt estuary: international gateway in the Low Countries -- Attracting foreign merchants and shipping, thwarting competition -- The disruption of the Scheldt estuary as international gateway -- Geography, politics and a new border -- Notes -- Chapter 22: The maritime trade networks of late medieval London -- Location advantages and challenges -- The port of London -- Shipping -- Maritime connections: river and coastal trade -- Maritime connections: overseas trade -- London merchants and alien traders -- Notes -- Chapter 23: Aberdeen and the east coast of Scotland: autonomy on the periphery -- Location and hinterland -- Connections -- Institutions -- Conflict resolution -- Conclusion -- Notes
Content:
Chapter 24: Bergen 1300-1600: a trading hub between the North and the Baltic Sea -- The emergence of a royal town and a commercial hub -- Population, migration, trade and crafts -- The advantages of the port of Bergen and outward connections -- The Hanseatic takeover of foreign trade -- The Hanse organization in Bergen -- The Hanseatic Kontor -- The legacy of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen -- Notes -- Chapter 25: European integration from the seaside: a comparative synthesis -- A period of expansion and intensification -- The case studies compared -- An expanding and re-orienting economic system -- Notes -- General bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
9781138899506
Additional Edition:
Print version Blockmans, Wim The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 : Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy Florence : Taylor and Francis,c2017 9781138899506
Language:
English
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