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From Fairs to Fairs: Maritime Coastal Traffic at the Rhythm of Patron Saints in the Adriatic at the end of the Middle Ages

The fairs represented one of the principal events in the maritime commercial life of the Adriatic communes. Mostly determined according to a patron saint of each city, some time developing by the will of the political power, they allowed the exchanges at moderates’ prices and attracted a commercial society of various nationalities. The Italian fairs have been already studied (specially the fiera di Lanciano and some fairs in the Marches), which is not the case with the Croatian ones. But, in fact, the fairs of Kvarner appear regularly in the contraliterre, which are the toll authorisations of export, from Dalmatians communes. Reintroducing these east-coast fairs in the global Adriatic context of maritime trade, this paper thus propose to constitute a kind of "calendar" of the Croatian and Italian fairs with their fortunes and misfortunes, from managing stands to the increase flow of the traffic and competition. The sea in that content played a dominant part, because it was used as a binder between all the Adriatic communities.

fairs; patron saints; maritime history; trade; Adriatic; the Middle Ages

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