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Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages - Pegolotti's Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context (Hardcover)
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Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages - Pegolotti's Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and its Commercial Context (Hardcover)
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
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At the end of the High Middle Ages in Europe, with buying power and
economic sophistication at a high, an itinerary detailing the toll
stations along a commercial artery carrying eastern goods (from
China, India and Iran) towards Europe was compiled, and later
incorporated in the well-known trading manual of the Florentine
bank official Pegolotti; Pegolotti was twice stationed in the city
of Famagusta in Cyprus, which lay opposite the city of Ayas where
the land route ended. The Il-Khanid capital, Tabriz in Iran,
attracting expensive merchandise such as spices and silk from a
variety of origins, was the road's starting-point. To demonstrate
the importance of the route in its own time, parallel and
contemporary routes in the Black Sea and the Levant are traced and
the effect of trade on their cities noted. To compare the Ayas
itinerary (1250s to 1330s) with previous periods the networks of
commercial avenues in the previous period (1100-1250) and the
subsequent one (1340s to 1500) are reconstructed. In each period
the connection of east-west trade with the main movements of the
European economy are fully drawn out, and the effects on the
building history of the three main Italian cities concerned
(Venice, Genoa and Florence) are sketched. Attention then turns to
the Pegolotti itinerary itself. The individual toll stations are
identified employing a variety of means, such as names taken from
the Roman itineraries (Peutinger Table and Antonine Itinerary) and
archaeological data; this allows the course of the track to be
followed through diverse topography to the city of Sivas, then
across plains and through passes to Erzurum and finally to Tabriz.
A picture is drawn of the urban history of each major city,
including Sivas, Erzurum and Tabriz itself, and of the other towns
along the route.
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