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Ecclesiae Mercatorum and the Rise of Merchant Colonies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Vsevolod Slessarev
Vsevolod Slessarev
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Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati
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Abstract

The incidence of churches as forerunners of merchant colonies in the Mediterranean is suggested in this exploratory study of medieval business and religion.

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Business History Review , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , Summer 1967 , pp. 177 - 197
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1967

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Loparev and Janin do not agree on the location of Ispigas (eis Pegas). Loparev places it in Pera, Janin on the southern bank of the Golden Horn, see La géographic ecclésiastique, 70–71.

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57 Müller, Documenti, no. 5 and notes; Röhricht, Regesta, no. 322.

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60 S. Giorgio Maggiore, no. 227. Compare this with Aquileia where the Venetians possessed four houses in the harbor, see Schaube, Handelsgeschichte, 9.

61 Genoese annalist Scriba, Ottobono, Annales Ianuenses, XII, p. 48Google Scholar. Fundicum Sancti Iohannis was either a church-affiliated “warehouse,” or a former xenodochium that had been consecrated in the name of the saint. On consecration of xenodochia see Schönfeld, Walther, “Die Xenodochien in Italian und Frankreich in frühen Mittelalter,” Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, XLIII: Kanonistische Abteilung, XII (1922), 20Google Scholar.

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65 Anthony of Novgorod, Kniga Palomnik, cxxi-cxxii, speaks of the monastery of Blessed Virgin Mary (Mother of God) where every pilgrim was fed free of charge. On a churchaffiliated hospital in Constantinople see Jeanselme, E. and Oeconomos, L., Les Oeuvres d'assistance et les hôpitaux byzantins au siecle des Comnenes. A paper read at the First Congress of the History of Art of Healing, Antwerp, August 7–12, 1920 (Antwerp, 1921)Google Scholar.

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67 Gorce, Les voyages, 160. Since the eleventh century merchants, sailors, and students considered themselves under a special protection of St. Nicholas. For a thorough study of St. Nicholas' popularity with these professional groups see Meisen, Karl, Nikolauskult und Nikolausbrauch im Abendlande (Düsseldorf, 1931), particularly 66–70, 94–101, and 245–50Google Scholar. On similar phenomenon in Northern Europe see Johansen, Acta Visbyensia, pp. 112–116.

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I would like to express my thanks to Professor Frederic C. Lane for having brought to my attention the possible cooperation of merchants and sailors in the maintenance of colonial churches.

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