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The Two Italies - Economic Relations Between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Northern Communes (Paperback)
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The Two Italies - Economic Relations Between the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and the Northern Communes (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series
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This book is a study of the economic development of different areas
of twelfth-century Italy whose commercial interests were closely
inter related: the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, famed for the wealth
of its rulers, and the maritime ports of Genoa, Pisa and Venice,
which were actively extending their trading interests throughout
the Mediterranean. On the basis of largely untapped sources in
Genoa and other north Italian archives, this book seeks to explain
how the north Italian merchants attempted to extend and to protect
their interests in the kingdom of Sicily, by agreements with the
Norman rulers or with those in Germany and Byzantium who aimed at
the conquest of Sicily and southern Italy. Dr Abulafia argues that
the kingdom was a major exporter of wheat and raw cotton, and that
in the twelfth century the northern merchants gained a substantial
hold over these exports. The Norman kings profited greatly from the
opportunity to sell the produce of their realm, and in particular
of their own estates, to an assured market; the lack of intensive
industry in the kingdom left the northerners free to produce
textiles out of southern fibres. Thus signs emerge of two Italies,
an agrarian and pastoral south, against a north with incipient
industrial activity, based partly on the commercial exploitation of
the south.
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