Merchants and Jews in the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada. A Look at the Business World at the End of the Middle Ages

Abstract

The present paper examines the commercial role played by Jews in their contact with other foreign merchant communities in the Kingdom of Granada. This first approximation focuses on the contents of the ledgers kept by one of these merchants, the Genoese Agostino Spinola, who operated mainly in the coast of Granada —his main base was the city of Almuñécar— until 1442, in connection with Jewish local merchant networks.