Il porti del Mediterraneo in età medievale

From the eleventh century, as a result of urban growth and of the trade development , ports of the Mediterranean become nodes of the western economy. Simple and equipped harbours are progressively structured in a complex system that connects areas of production and market, by bringing business, capital, assets and investments. The book focuses in particular on the significant relationship between port and city, illustrating the dynamic economic and political, military, social and cultural rights of maritime cities. The interaction between critical analysis and a wide selection of sources – from the works of Arab geographers to legislative acts, from nautical charts and portolans to private and public financial documents, from insurance policies to procedural acts - returns as in a large fresco the dynamic world of the Low Middle Ages Mediterranean ports, in which ships, goods and men were protagonists of European expansion.