The book is based on Arabic sources, documents in archives of centers of Levantine trade, and material from the files of the firm of Francesco Datini. From the

The vast resources in the archives of the old trading cities round the Mediterranean have only comparatively recently begun to be fully explored, and they conti

The book is based on Arabic sources, documents in archives of centers of Levantine trade, and material from the files of the firm of Francesco Datini. From the

This is the fifth collection of articles by Eliyahu Ashtor to be published by Variorum and focuses on the fundamental question of why, during the later Middle A

The vast resources in the archives of the old trading cities round the Mediterranean have only comparatively recently begun to be fully explored, and they conti