Latins, Greeks And Muslims: Encounters In The Eastern Mediterranean, 10th-15th Centuries

The studies in this latest collection by David Jacoby explore the multiple facets of encounters between states, social and national groups, and individuals belonging to Latin Christianity, Byzantium and the Islamic world generated in the eastern Mediterranean by trade, shipping, military conquest, migration and settlement. A particular focus is the impact upon individual economic activities, with special attention to the other, outsiders in foreign environments, foreign privileged versus indigenous traders, the link between governmental intervention, naturalization, and fiscal status, as well as the interaction between