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Neue Quellen zu Handel und Umgang zwischen Christen und Muslimen im Mittelmeerraum (ca. 1440–1500)
Abstract Since the time of the Crusades the church had placed an embargo on the delivery, to Muslims, of material vital for war (especially metal and wood, but also foodstuffs) under the threat of excommunication. Whoever was in breach of this embargo – and Christian merchants in the Mediterranean region could hardly avoid this – had to apply directly to the pope for absolution. We learn from the requests which wares under which circumstances were delivered to the Muslims; how Christians converted to Islam while taken prisoner (even the plan for kidnapping a Christian is laid before the pope). Here, such supplications from the years 1440–1500 are evaluated both regarding the trade of Italian and Spanish merchants with the Maghreb from Morocco to Egypt, as well as regarding local trade with the Emirate of Granada in its final decades. This source is thus a welcome addition to the research of Heyd, Goitein, Ashtor.
