Housing the stranger in the Mediterranean world : lodging, trade, and travel in late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Olivia Remie Constable.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2003], ©2003.

xii, 427 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

'Accepting all comers': a cross-cultural institution in late antiquity -- The transition from Byzantium to the Dar al-Islam -- Commerce, charity, community, and the Funduq -- Colonies before colonialism: western trade and the evolution of the Fondaco -- Conquest and commercial space: the case of Iberia -- Fondacos in Sicily, South Italy, and the crusader states -- Changing patterns of Muslim commercial space in the later middle ages -- Christian commerce and the solidification of the Fondaco system -- The Fondaco in Mediterranean Europe.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-404) and index.

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