HIST-102 Lecture 4: Genoa
19 Nov 2020
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Genoa had been one of the first christian cities to revive in the eleventh century. It had already secured a degree of prominence in the late tenth, when her merchants were among the few willing to risk attack by muslim navies. The genoese began by bringing italian goods to southern france, and vice-versa, they were constantly exposed to muslim pirates operating out of corsica and sardinia. In 1016 genoa allied with her rival city-state of pisa and together they drove the muslims from those two islands. Genoa built her fortune by bringing eastern silks, slaves, spices, and sugar to western ports like. By the middle of the thirteenth century, the amount of annual trade passing through genoa was three times the size of the regular income of louis ix from his enormous demesne in. By that time, too, most of the genoese had become staunch guelfs, opposed to the hohenstaufen rulers.
