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L’élite mercantile pugliese nello spazio adriatico durante la tarda età angioina. Un primo profilo
Abstract This chapter sets out to delineate the traits of the Apulian merchant elite in the Adriatic region, a space where the political weakness of the Kingdom of Naples was tangible. During the early Angevin period, this elite consisted mainly of families from the Amalfi coast, who had been living in Apulian port towns for decades. However, they appeared to lose their importance as merchants / traders around 1335. The long crisis of the Kingdom’s merchant class ended in the final decade of the fourteenth century. A few families from Trani and Manfredonia who did not belong to the longstanding ruling elite were the protagonists of this turning point. Archival evidence in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) and Venice shows that they made up the majority of Apulian merchants in the early fifteenth century. Their ability to supply large volumes of grain to Ragusa and Venice was not jeopardized by foreign merchants, sociopolitical upheavals in the urban space in Puglia or dynastic changes that took place in the Kingdom of Naples in the fifteenth century.
