Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Geniza Merchants and their Business World

The Geniza merchants of the eleventh-century Mediterranean – sometimes called the 'Maghribi traders' – are central to controversies about the origins of long-term economic growth and the institutional bases of trade. In this book, Jessica Goldberg reconstructs the business world of the Geniza merchants, maps the shifting geographic relationships of the medieval Islamic economy and sheds new light on debates about the institutional framework for later European dominance. Commercial letters, ...