Constable, Olivia Remie.

Housing the stranger in the Mediterranean world lodging, trade, and travel in late antiquity and the Middle A ges / [electronic resou rce] : Olivia Remie Constable. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2003. - xii, 427 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 24 cm. - ACLS Fellows’ publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-404) and index.

'Accepting all comers': a cross-cultural institution in late antiqui ty -- The transition from Byzantium to the Dar al-Islam -- Commerce, ch arity, community, and the Funduq -- Colonies before colonialism: wester n trade and the evolution of the Fondaco -- Conquest and commercial spa ce: the case of Iberia -- Fondacos in Sicily, South Italy, and the crus ader states -- Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the late r middle ages -- Christian commerce and the solidification of the Fonda co system -- The Fondaco in Mediterranean Europe.


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Ann Arbor, Mich. :
University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing,
2013.
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Hotels-- History.-- Mediterranean Region