Commercial conflict resolution across the religious divide in the thirteenth-century Mediterranean

Autor: Travis Bruce
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Mediterranean Historical Review. 30:19-38
ISSN: 1743-940X
0951-8967
DOI: 10.1080/09518967.2015.1044825
Popis: Commercial conflict resolution in the medieval Mediterranean has been treated by a number of scholars in recent years, notably through the use of documents from the Cairo Geniza and the archives of the Italian port of Genoa. Recent research on this subject, and more specifically on contract enforcement, has focused on contract reinforcement within the Mediterranean Jewish community, largely because of the sources available. Parallels drawn with medieval Italian mechanisms of conflict resolution emphasize differences between public- vs. private-order responses, that is, the reliance on personalized groups in the Islamic world rather than on public institutions typical of the Italian port-cities. These studies do not, however, examine how commercial conflicts were resolved across religious and political lines, despite the growing role of Italian merchants in the trade networks of Islamic North Africa, a role that inevitably led to trade disputes and occasional uncollected payments. Through close textual ana...
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