Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- List of illustrations (page viii)
- List of maps (page x)
- Acknowledgments (page xi)
- Introduction A culture of travel: words, institutions, and connections (page 1)
- 1 "Accepting all comers": a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity (page 11)
- 2 The transition from Byzantium to the Dār al-Islām (page 40)
- 3 Commerce, charity, community, and the funduq (page 68)
- 4 Colonies before colonialism: western Christian trade and the evolution of the fondaco (page 107)
- 5 Conquest and commercial space: the case of Iberia (page 158)
- 6 Fondacos in Sicily, south Italy, and the Crusader states (page 201)
- 8 Christian commerce and the solidification of the fondaco system (page 266)
- 9 The fondaco in Mediterranean Europe (page 306)
- Conclusion A changing world: new peoples and institutions in the early modern Mediterranean (page 355)
- Selected bibliography (page 362)
- Index (page 405)