Art and Patronage in the Medieval Mediterranean : Merchant Culture in the Region of Amalfi

List of Illustrations viii Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. The Art of Mercatantia: Medieval Commerce and Culture in Southwestern Italy 1(23) The Experience and Politics of Mercatantia 24(23) Amalfitans at Home: Residential Architecture and Its Mediterranean Syntheses 47(69) Private and Public in Amalfitan Religious Space 116(74) Amalfi and the New Metropolis: The Decline of the Art of Mercatantia 190(53) Notes 243(60) Select Bibliography 303(20) Index 323