Comercio exterior del Reino de Sevilla a través de los manuales de mercaderías italianos bajomedievales

Abstract

The evolvement of the pratiche di mercatura in the Italian Peninsula permitted access to information relating to the principal commercial and financial centres in medieval Europe, which were located mainly on the Mediterranean and in the Low Countries. This article analyses the relevance of the Kingdom of Seville in these texts. We will see that the Italians considered Seville to be the main centre of trade in Castile, and to be the hub of an extensive commercial network that stretched from Byzantium and the Maghreb to Flanders, and included Italy and Aragon.