Abstract
The debate whether an overall economic depression took place in the later Middle Ages has largely focused on evidence from European countries. The present article re-examines and corrects the crucial series of prices at which the Commune of Genoa farmed out the right to collect customs duties in the city’s harbor. It then juxtaposes these often-used data with five estimates of the revenue of the harbor of Alexandria and points to the congruity of the Genoese and Alexandrian series. This congruity may be taken to exemplify key fluctuations of Mediterranean commerce in medieval times.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam |
Publisher | The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Pages | 181-207 |
Number of pages | 27 |
State | Published - 2023 |
Publication series
Name | Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam |
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Volume | 54 |
ISSN (Print) | 0334-4118 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023, The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Alexandria
- Benjamin of Tudela
- economic depression
- Genoa
- harbor
- Ibn Khaldūn
- Petrarch
- revenues