Maltese seafaring in mediaeval and post-mediaeval times
@article{Mcmanamon2003MalteseSI, title={Maltese seafaring in mediaeval and post-mediaeval times}, author={John M. Mcmanamon}, journal={Mediterranean Historical Review}, year={2003}, volume={18}, pages={32 - 58} }
Despite a dearth of material evidence, excellent historical detective work, especially that by a dedicated local school of Maltese historians, invites a survey of Maltese economic and political developments from a Mediterranean maritime perspective. In the economic sphere, cotton, shipped to Sicilian ports where it was traded for grain, eventually proved to be mediaeval Malta's chief cash crop. A pattern of non-diversified trade led to the politicization of the economy in the fourteenth century…
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