Commercial conflict resolution across the religious divide in the thirteenth-century Mediterranean.
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 enforcem...
| Publicado en: | Mediterranean Historical Review Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 19 - 39 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=109541989&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 109541989 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 09518967 UPO jtl: Mediterranean Historical Review issn: 09518967 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jun2015 vid: 30 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 109541989 10.1080/09518967.2015.1044825 ppf: 19 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 185KB tig: atl: Commercial conflict resolution across the religious divide in the thirteenth-century Mediterranean. aug: au: Bruce, Travis affil: Wichita State University, Kansas, USA su: History of the Mediterranean Region Almohades Muslims Commerce Economic history Government policy Genoa (Italy) sug: subj: Genoa (Italy) History of the Mediterranean Region Almohades Muslims Commerce Economic history Government policy keyword: Almohad Christian Italy Muslim piracy Pisa trade trust Tunis ab: 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 analysis of 14 Latin and Arabic letters exchanged between Islamic Almohad Tunis and Christian Italian Pisa, this article explores how Almohad commercial agents and governmental authorities sought to maintain positive trade relations across the religious divide while protecting the interests of their own clients and citizens when disputes arose over commercial payments and debt collection. Rather than relying on commercial conflict resolution methods specific to one culture or the other, these documents reveal a middle ground of borrowed vocabulary and procedures. Through these letters, Almohad merchants and officials attempted to negotiate through the bonds of personal trust and reputation established with their Italian counterparts. However, they also appealed to Italian sensibilities with hybridized methods recognizable by the legal and public institutions of both cultures. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Mediterranean Historical Review is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Mediterranean Historical Review holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2015 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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