The merchant of Venice the activity of patricians in the late Middle Ages / by Jean-Claude Hocquet.
| Author/creator | Hocquet, Jean-Claude, 1936 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025] |
| Description | viii, 306 pages color illustrations 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Series | Medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500, 0928-5520 ; volume 144 |
| Contents | The merchant, and his family -- The state and market society -- Foreign merchants and subject merchants in Venice -- The internal market : supplies of food and other products -- Navigation, ships, and freight -- The orient and its riches : the colonial empire -- The orient : Greeks, Jews, and Mamluks -- Western products : wool, drapery, and metals -- Money, and precious metals -- Credit -- The merchant, and tax -- Humanism, faith, and inventions -- The merchant in the countryside -- Wills of merchants and bankers. |
| Abstract | "For the first time, The Merchant of Venice looks at the place and role of the late medieval merchant nobility in the great international trade that took place in the world known at the time, from China and Asia to Flanders and England. These merchants who travelled the world were also shipowners, sailors and bankers. They used modern banking techniques and credit based on bills of exchange held no secrets for them. They traded spices, porcelain, cotton and silk, dyes and glassware for drapery, wool and metals. These merchants used part of their profit to embellish their city, which amazed foreign visitors, and were always on the lookout for the latest discoveries and inventions. Venice was at the height of its power at the time, but it was also on the eve of its weakening"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025000121 |
| ISBN | 9789004706910 hardback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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