The Routledge handbook of maritime trade around Europe 1300-1600 / edited by Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Notes on contributors -- Maritime trade around Europe, 1300-1600 : commercial networks and urban autonomy / Wim Blockmans, Mikhail Krom and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz -- Ships and sailing routes in maritime trade around Europe, 1300-1600 / Richard W. Unger -- Capturing opportunity, financing trade / Stuart Jenks -- Trading spaces in European port cities : the architectural models of bourses, lonjas, and exchanges / Donatella Calabi -- Trade and language : how did traders communicate across language borders? / Agnete Nesse -- Lex maritima? : local, regional and universal maritime law in the middle ages / Albrecht Cordes -- The Mediterranean -- Venice : city of merchants or city for merchandise? / Monique O'Connell -- Collapse and continuity : Alexandria as a declining city with a thriving port (thirteenth to sixteenth centuries) / Georg Christ -- The maritime trading network of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century / Lovro Kuncevic -- Genoa : a city with a port or a port city? / Luisa Piccinno -- The Genoese casa di San Giorgio as a micro-economic and territorial nodal system / Carlo Taviani -- Marseille : a supporting role / Thierry P�ecout -- Valencia : opportunities of a secondary node / David Igual Luis -- The baltic -- L�ubeck and the Hanse : a queen without its body / Carsten Jahnke -- Danzig (Gdansk) : seeking stability and autonomy / Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz -- Reval (Tallinn) : a city emerging from maritime trade / Anu M�and and Ivar Leimus -- Novgorod : trade, politics and mentalities in the time of independence / Pavel Lukin -- The city of Pskov in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries : Baltic trade and institutional growth / Alexei Vovin and Mikhail Krom -- The Atlantic &�athe North�asea -- Lisbon : trade, urban power and the king's visible hand / Amelia Andrade and Flavio Miranda -- The maritime trade and society of la Rochelle in the late middle ages / Mathias Tranchant -- The goodlyest haven not of the lowe countries only but of all Christendome / Louis Sicking and Arjo Neele -- The Scheldt estuary as a gateway system 1300-1600 -- The maritime trade networks of late medieval London / Maryanne Kowaleski -- Aberdeen and the east coast of Scotland : autonomy on the periphery / Edda Frankot -- Bergen 1300-1600 : a trading hub between the north and the Baltic sea / Geir Atle Ersland -- European integration from the seaside : a comparative synthesis / Wim Blockmans and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz -- General bibliography.