The politics of violence and trade: Denia and Pisa in the eleventh century
Travis Bruce
In the eleventh century, as ports and cities expanded their involvement in Mediterranean, they came into contact conflict with one another; both were integral parts of Mediterranean renewal after relative decline early Middle Ages. Of these cities, relations between Pisa Denia perhaps most exemplary extremes possible within new Mediterranean. On surface, theirs would seem to be merely a series clashes based on religious friction, jihād, or territorial ambitions, shown by over Sardinia. However, when viewed together diplomatic commercial relations, it becomes apparent that violence was only part dynamic, where did exist along lines. Economic ambitions becoming motivating factor, trade routes commerce stakes medieval
Journal of Medieval History