Networks and Commercial Penetration Models in the Late Medieval Mediterranean: Revisiting the Datini – Angela Orlandi

In the wake of these interpretations and giving space to intercultural relations, the issue of economic actors in foreign lands has recently been taken up once again, with work focusing on merchant communities and networks in a range of European and extra-European contexts. Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Indian Ocean communities have been analysed in studies that have focused largely on the informal rules underlying the functioning of economic networks scattered over the various areas.2