Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World
Subtitle: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780521819183
Subjects: Economic History; European history: c 500 to c 1500; International trade; Islamic studies; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Hotels; Europe - General; Business & Economics; History - General History; Business/Economics; Europe; Medieval; History / Europe / General; History; Mediterranean Region
First sentence: In the gospel of Luke, the parable of the Good Samaritan (10:30-35) tells the tale of a traveler who was robbed, beaten, and half-dead by thieves on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho.