TY - BOOK AU - Christ,Georg TI - Trading conflicts: Venetian merchants and Mamluk officials in late Medieval Alexandria T2 - Medieval Mediterranean SN - 9789004222007 AV - DT154.A4 C475 2012 U1 - 382.0945/3110621 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Dolfin, Biagio, KW - Italians KW - Egypt KW - Alexandria KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Biography KW - Merchants KW - HISTORY / Europe / Italy KW - bisacsh KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Exports & Imports KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Marketing KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs KW - Alexandria (Egypt) KW - Social conditions KW - Commerce KW - Venice (Italy) N1 - B. The Captain: Countering the Merchants; Includes bibliographical references; Preliminary Material; Georg Christ --; Introduction; Georg Christ --; Levant Trade; Georg Christ --; Venetian Commercial Privileges in the Mamluk Empire; Georg Christ --; The Venetian Consulate in Alexandria; Georg Christ --; Biagio Dolfin – Public Servant and Merchant; Georg Christ --; Crusade and Levant Trade; Georg Christ --; Slave Trade and Solidarities; Georg Christ --; Venice as Protector of Pilgrims and the Power of the cortexia; Georg Christ --; Per onor di san Marcho – Wanderings of St Mark’s Head; Georg Christ --; Shed Wine – Anti-Christian Riots in Alexandria?; Georg Christ --; Prolungar la muda – Conflict over the Spice Fair’s Deadline; Georg Christ --; Non per pato, ma per complaxer – Modalities of the Customs Clearance; Georg Christ --; Per cholpa, defeto et triste maniere – The Conflict Surrounding the Sultan’s Pepper; Georg Christ --; The Case of Giacomo Zorzi: Release of a Debt Prisoner; Georg Christ --; Epilogue: Montar al Caiero – Quasi-Martyrdom of the Consul?; Georg Christ --; Conclusion – Types of Truth; Georg Christ --; Partial Reconstruction of Biagio Dolfin’s Correspondence; Georg Christ --; Bibliography; Georg Christ --; Index; Georg Christ; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - Analysing different conflicts in Late Medieval Alexandria, this book offers new insights into the micro-mechanics of Venetian life and trade in Egypt and recalibrates the narrative of the strictly regulated and often violent contacts between East and West. This thorough microanalysis, based on the private archive of a Venetian merchant and consul in Alexandria read in conjunction with other Venetian and Mamluk sources, provides a differentiated image of conflict patterns cutting across the cultural divide. It transforms our image of Alexandria as a city at the intersection of Orient and Occident into that of a microcosm in its own right where disputes did not always fall neatly along cultural divides and conflicts were traded as much as trade created conflicts UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004222007 ER -