Artigo Revisado por pares

Portrait of a medieval India trader: three letters from the Cairo Geniza

1987; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 50; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0041977x00039458

ISSN

1474-0699

Autores

S. D. Goıteın,

Tópico(s)

Eurasian Exchange Networks

Resumo

The first comprehensive survey of Geniza documents about the trade on the route to India was published by me in Speculum, A Journal of the American Medieval Academy, 29, 181–97, in April 1954. At that time I was able to give a report about 130 Geniza papers related in one way or another to the India trade. Soon after the article was published, a distinguished institution offered me the opportunity to publish the material in full. I accepted with enthusiasm and set feverishly to work. But slowly it dawned upon me that one should not try to solve problems by sagacity at a time when new sources that could provide factual answers to those problems might lurk around the corner

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