title: Bruges nesso economico tra i popoli romanici e germanici (secoli XIV-XV) / Bruges: The Economic Nexus between Romanic and Germanic Peoples (14th-15th Centuries)
abstract: In this contribution, presented at the Accademia Belgica in Rome in 1967, Federigo Melis tackled a topic that was much discussed in those years, namely the role of Bruges as a national and international marketplace between the 14th and 15th centuries. He presented the Flemish city as a nexus, a link between Northern European and Mediterranean trade, between Romanic and Germanic peoples. From research based on the rich Tuscan archival documentation, Bruges appears to be a meeting point of multipl
journal: Biblioteca di storia