CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

List of Figures and Tables

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Approaches

1 - Networks as Social Structures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Towns: A Theoretical Approach to Historical Network Analysis

pp 13-44

2 - Interactions, Networks, Discourses and Markets

pp 45-64

Part II - Merchants

3 - Creating Networks through Languages: Italian Merchants in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

pp 65-80

4 - Networks and Commercial Penetration Models in the Late Medieval Mediterranean: Revisiting the Datini

pp 81-106

5 - Networks and Merchant Diasporas: Florentine Bankers in Lyon and Antwerp in the Sixteenth Century

pp 107-120

6 - The Astudillo Partnership and the Spanish ‘Nation’ in Sixteenth-Century Florence

pp 121-136

Part III - Markets and Institutions

7 - Merchant Networks in the Cities of the Crown of Castile

pp 137-152

8 - Galley Routes and Merchant Networks between Venice and the North Sea in the Fifteenth Century

pp 153-170

9 - Network Takers or Network Makers? The Portuguese Traders in the Medieval West

pp 171-186

Part IV - Products

10 - Pepper and Silver between Milan and Lisbon in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century

pp 187-200

11 - The Wool Trade, Venice and the Mediterranean Cities at the End of the Sixteenth Century

pp 201-222

12 - The Scerimans and Cross-Cultural Trade in Gems: The Armenian Diaspora in Venice and its Trading Networks in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century

pp 223-240

Notes

pp 241-298

Index

pp 299-306