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The Radanites: Jewish Merchants Who Linked Three Continents
Long before the Hanseatic League or the Venetian galleys, a network of Jewish merchants called the Radanites moved goods, ideas, and letters across the medieval world. This episode traces their routes from the Rhône Valley to the Indus, their role in Carolingian and Abbasid economies, and the puzzle of why they vanish from the record after the tenth century. We look at the famous passage from Ibn Khordadbeh's Book of Roads and Kingdoms, the goods they carried—from swords to silks to spices—and the linguistic trail they left in European and Arabic vocabularies. We also consider the…
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