TY  - GEN
AU  -  Lopez, Robert Sabatino,
AU  -  Raymond, Irving W.
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  Medieval trade in the Mediterranean world: illustrative documents 
PY  - 1967///?]
CY  -  New York
PB  -  W.W. Norton
KW  -  Commerce
KW  -  History
KW  -  Medieval, 500-1500
KW  -  Mediterranean Region
N1  -  Includes bibliography (p. [427]-445) and index;  Note on coinage, weights, and other technical terms -- Pt. 1. At the origins of the commercial revolution. Commerce in the Byzantine Empire , the Muslim East, and the Catholic West -- Pt. 2. Markets, merchants, merchandise, and means of exchange during the commercial revolution. Th e development of markets ; The growth of the merchant class ; The diver sification of merchandise ; The evolution of the means of exchange -- P t. 3. Commercial contracts and commercial investments. Loans and the pr oblem of interest ; The contract of exchange and its double function ; The sea loan and the sea exchange ; The Commenda contract ; Partnership s and other contracts used in land trade ; Depositors, factors, and com mission agents ; Some other forms of agreement ; Informal commercial pa pers -- Pt. 4. The route and the thorns along it. Transportation by sea ; Transportation by land ; The development of insurance contracts ; Co mmercial litigation and sharp business practices ; Business failures an d their settlement ; International disputes over trade -- Legal restric tions of trade -- Pt. 5. Tools and ideas. Manuals ; The progress of acc ounting methods ; Commercial correspondence ; Moral standards and pract ical advice;  Electronic text and image data;  Ann Arbor, Mich.;  University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing;  2008;  Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text;  ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]);  Mode of a ccess: Intranet
UR  -  htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06015
ER  -