Medieval History
BBC History Magazine, a leading monthly periodical on all things history, features an article about the Crusades and Christian-Muslim medieval interaction. ?Traders and Crusaders?, by Thomas Asbridge of Queen Mary University of London, examines how relations between Europe and the Islamic Middle East ?were about more than war and hatred.?
The article focuses on the trade relationships that developed between Muslim and Christian merchants, with Italian city-states such as Genoa and Venice establishing networks to bring in goods from Middle Eastern cities like Aleppo and Damascus. Asbridge writes, ?these shared interests produced interdependency and promoted carefully regulated contact, even at times of heightened political and military conflict. In the end ? even in the midst of holy war ? trade was too important to be disrupted.?
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
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Medieval History
July issue of BBC History Magazine features the Crusades
BBC History Magazine, a leading monthly periodical on all things history, features an article about the Crusades and Christian-Muslim medieval interaction. ?Traders and Crusaders?, by Thomas Asbridge of Queen Mary University of London, examines how relations between Europe and the Islamic Middle East ?were about more than war and hatred.?
The article focuses on the trade relationships that developed between Muslim and Christian merchants, with Italian city-states such as Genoa and Venice establishing networks to bring in goods from Middle Eastern cities like Aleppo and Damascus. Asbridge writes, ?these shared interests produced interdependency and promoted carefully regulated contact, even at times of heightened political and military conflict. In the end ? even in the midst of holy war ? trade was too important to be disrupted.?
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
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