Introduction: a culture of travel: words institutions, and connections 1. Accepting all comers': a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity 2. the transition from Byzantium to the Dar al-Islam 3. Commerce, charity, community, and the funduq 4. Colonies before colonialism: western Christian trade and the evolution of the fondaco 5. Conquest and commercial space: the case of Iberia 6. Fondacos in Sicily, south Italy, and the Crusader states 7. Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the later middle ages 8. Christian commerce and the solidification of the fondaco system 9. The fondaco in Mediterranean Europe Conclusion: a changing world: new peoples and institutions in the early modern Mediterranean Bibliography Index.
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