The Import of Levantine Goods by Florentine Merchant Bankers : The Adaptation of Oriental Rugs in Western Culture

P. 505-525

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • Preface
  • Diasporas and Diasporic Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean : an Analytical Framework
  • Venetian Archival Documents and the Prosopography of the Thirteenth-Century Byzantine World : Tracing Individuals Through the Archives of a Diaspora
  • Socio-Economic Networks : An Introductory Discussion
  • Economic History in the Lab : The Impact of Institutional History and Geography on the Development of Long-Distance Trade
  • Genoa and Venice : Traders of Prosperity, Growth, and Death
  • In Search of Diasporas in the Byzantine Successor State of Epirus (c. 1210-1267)
  • A Transcultural Society? : the Empire of Nicaea (1204-1261)
  • Negotium Graecorum : Trade as Theory and Practice in Ecclesiastical Contacts between the West and the World of Late Byzantium
  • Merchants in Frankish Syria : Adaptation, Isolation, Segregation and Union
  • Reflections on the Mamluk Destruction of Acre (1291)
  • Soldiers Diaspora or Cairene Nobility? : the Circassians in the Mamluk Sultanate
  • Byzantine Saints in Turkish Captivity in Anatolia (Late Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries)
  • Between Trade and Religion : Three Florentine Merchants in Mamluk Cairo
  • Why Venice, not Genoa : How Venice Emerged as the Mamluks' Favourite European Trading Partner after 1365
  • Strategies for Transcultural Trade Relations : Florentine Attempts to Reproduce the Venetian Commercial System in the Mamluk Empire (First Half of the Fifteenth Century)
  • Conflicts, Caravans and Silk : Some Aspects of the Venetian Presence in Trebizond (1371-1376)
  • Ethnic and Religious Composition of the Population of Venetian Tana in the 1430s
  • Nunc habitator Tane : Venetian Merchants as Long-Term Residents in Tana (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)
  • Practices of Integration and Segregation : Armenian Trading Diasporas in Their Interaction with the Genoese and Venetian Colonies in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea (1289-1484)
  • The Sceriman between Venice and New Julfa : An Armenian Trading Network and its Sociocultural Impacts (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)
  • Mixed Identities on Hospitaller Rhodes
  • Empty Ghetto : Being Jewish on Hospitaller Rhodes between Discrimination and Representation
  • The Influential Trade : Community of Western Merchants on Hospitaller Rhodes (1421-1480)
  • Muslims and Jews on Hospitaller Rhodes (1421-1522)
  • The Insertion of the Order of Saint John in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Two Sieges of Rhodes (1480-1522)
  • A Transcultural Formula of Rule : The Byzantine-Frankish Discourse on the Formation of the Kingdom of Cyprus
  • Papal Trade Licences, Italian Merchants, and Changing Perceptions of the Mamluks and Turkish Beyliks in the Fourteenth Century
  • Churches as Shared Spaces in the Eastern Mediterranean (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)
  • Cross-Cultural Transfers of Industrial Technologies in the Later Middle Ages : Incentives, Promoters and Agents
  • The Import of Levantine Goods by Florentine Merchant Bankers : The Adaptation of Oriental Rugs in Western Culture
  • Mediterranean Jewish Diasporas and the Bill of Exchange : Coping with a Foreign Financial Instrument (Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)
  • Bills of Exchange, Financial Networks, and Quasi-Impersonal Exchange in Western Europe and the Middle East
  • The Dolfin Connection : A Medieval Venetian Trade Network (1418-1420)
  • Merchant Communities, Commercial Networks, and the Constitution of Markets
  • Was There a Market for Institutions in Early Modern European Trade?
  • Osmanlı-Speaking Diasporas : Cross-Diasporic Relations and Intercommunity Trust between Marseilles, Tunis and Livorno (1600-1650)
  • The Venetian Nation in Sicily in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century : The Example of the Valier Brothers' Company
  • Merchants of the Adriatic : Zadar's Trading Community around the Mid-Sixteenth Century
  • Foreign Merchants and Local Institutions : Thinking about the Genoese Nation in Venice and the Mediterranean Trade in the Late Renaissance Period
  • Florence on the Lagoon : A Strozzi Company in Early Modern Venice
  • On the Use of Legal Resources and the Definition of Group Boundaries : A Prosopographic Analysis of the French Nation and the British Factory in Eighteenth-Century Naples
  • Selected Bibliography
  • List of Figures ; List of Maps ; List of Tables
  • Abstracts and Keywords
  • List of Contributors and Editors
  • Index
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  DOI: 10.1400/246029

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