Housing the stranger in the Mediterranean world : lodging, trade, and travel in late antiquity and the Middle
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/ Olivia Remie Constable
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Cambridge
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: Cambridge University Press
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, 2003.
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xii, 427 p.:
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ill.
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Code E.Book: 2740
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Index
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Accepting all comers': a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity -- The transition from Byzantium to the Daŕ al-Islaḿ -- 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