| Trade
and the Merchant Adventurer in the Late Middle Ages
“I saw oranges and lemons from Castile … fruits and
wine from Greece … I saw also confections and spices from
Alexandria, and all the Levant, just as if one were there”.
(Pero Tafur on a visit to Bruges in 1438)
This course will look at patterns of trade, systems of finance,
the great commercial centres of Europe and the role of the merchant
as well as the impact of trade on cultural and artistic traditions
in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. |