The Routledge handbook of maritime trade around Europe 1300-1600: commercial networks and urban autonomy

List of figures PrefaceNotes on Contributors Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz 'Maritime Trade around Europe, 1300-1600. Commercial Networks and Urban Autonomy'Thematic Aspects Richard W. Unger 'Ships and Sailing Routes in Maritime Trade around Europe, 1300-1600' Stuart Jenks 'Capturing Opportunity, Financing Trade'Donatella Calabi'Trading Spaces in European Port Cities: The Architectural Models of Bourses, Lonjas, and Exchanges'Agnete Nesse'Trade and Language: How did Traders Communicate Across Language Borders?'Albrecht Cordes'Lex Maritima? Local, Regional and Universal Maritime Law in the Middle Ages'The MediterraneanMonique O'Connell'Venice: City of Merchants or City for Merchandise?' Georg Christ'Collapse and Continuity: Alexandria as a Declining City with a Thriving Port (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)'Lovro Kuncevic'The Maritime Trading Network of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) from the Fourteenth to the Sixteenth Century'Luisa Piccinno'Genoa: a City with a Port or a Port City?'Carlo Taviani'The Genoese Casa di San Giorgio as a Micro-Economic and Territorial Nodal System'Thierry Pecout 'Marseille: A Supporting Role'David Igual Luis'Valencia: Opportunities of a Secondary Node'The BalticCarsten Jahnke'Lubeck and the Hanse: a Queen Without Its Body'Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz'Danzig (Gdansk): seeking stability and autonomy'Anu Mand and Ivar Leimus'Reval (Tallinn) - A City Emerging from Maritime Trade'Pavel Lukin'Novgorod: Trade, Politics and Mentalities in the Time of Independence'Alexei Vovin and Mikhail Krom'The City of Pskov in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Baltic Trade and Institutional Growth'The Atlantic & the North SeaAmelia Andrade and Flavio Miranda'Lisbon. Trade, Urban Power and the King's Visible Hand'Mathias Tranchant'The Maritime Trade and Society of La Rochelle in the Late Middle Ages'Louis Sicking and Arno Neele'"The goodlyest Haven not of the Lowe Countries only but of all Christendome". The Scheldt Estuary as a Gateway System 1300-1600'Maryanne Kowaleski'The Maritime Trade Networks of Late Medieval London'Edda Frankot'Aberdeen and the East Coast of Scotland: Autonomy on the Periphery'Geir Atle Ersland'Bergen 1300 - 1600: A Trading Hub Between the North and the Baltic Sea'Wim Blockmans and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz'European Integration From the Seaside. A Comparative Synthesis'General Bibliography