Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on nomenclature
- List of the kings of Majorca, 1229–1343
- Note on the coinage of the kingdom of Majorca
- Map 1 The kingdom of Majorca
- Map 2 The western Mediterranean
- PART I UNITY AND DIVERSITY
- PART II THE CROSSROADS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
- 6 The rise of the trade of Mallorca City
- 7 Commerce in the age of the Vespers
- 8 Towards economic integration: the early fourteenth century
- 9 The trade of the autonomous kingdom in its last two decades
- 10 From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
- 11 The reshaping of Mallorca's economy, 1343–1500
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on nomenclature
- List of the kings of Majorca, 1229–1343
- Note on the coinage of the kingdom of Majorca
- Map 1 The kingdom of Majorca
- Map 2 The western Mediterranean
- PART I UNITY AND DIVERSITY
- PART II THE CROSSROADS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
- 6 The rise of the trade of Mallorca City
- 7 Commerce in the age of the Vespers
- 8 Towards economic integration: the early fourteenth century
- 9 The trade of the autonomous kingdom in its last two decades
- 10 From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
- 11 The reshaping of Mallorca's economy, 1343–1500
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
It has been seen that in the late Middle Ages Mallorca occupied a strategic position in the commercial networks of the Catalan and Italian merchants within the Mediterranean; but the Atlantic also increasingly entered into the calculations of Mallorcan businessmen and their colleagues, and by the late thirteenth century sea links were established as far afield as England and Flanders. These consisted in part, and at first, of indirect links, via Seville, which acted as a terminus for Genoese, Catalan and Mallorcan ships coming out of the Mediterranean, and for Basque and Cantabrian vessels coming from northern Spain and beyond. But penetration of the Atlantic was also directed south-westwards, down the coast of Atlantic Morocco, which features prominently in the Dret de exida documents for Mallorcan Muslims in the early fourteenth century. Sailings to Anfa and other ports nearby may long have been more numerous and profitable than those to England or Flanders; but they are also less well documented. Sailings further south as far as the Canaries were certainly a much greater rarity, but have attracted a considerable modern literature. Some shipping from Atlantic ports also penetrated through Gibraltar into the western Mediterranean, as the ancoratge records confirm, with their references to boats from northern Spain. Indeed, both Seville and Mallorca became interchange points for goods moving from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and vice versa in the early fourteenth century.
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- A Mediterranean EmporiumThe Catalan Kingdom of Majorca, pp. 188 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994