Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Methods and Sources -- Structure of the Book -- PART I: COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS -- Chapter Two: The Development of the Antwerp Market before 1500 -- Antwerp's Early Development -- The...

For a very long time, the areas available for continuous long-distance trade were limited to territories the size of Braudel's Mediterranée (1949). Whatever the commercial organizations (merchants in the Roman or the Fatimid Empires, the Hanseatic League, the Florentine Companies), their trade...