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Levant Company

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Levant Company

Company formed in 1592 to trade English cloth and tin for oriental silk or Turkish carpets in the eastern Mediterranean. The company was formed by the merger of the Turkey Company (1581) and the Venice Company (1583).
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The sermons preached by clerical job-seekers to the members of the Levant Company rather predictably found much to admire in the mercantile mentality, with only a few having nerve enough to raise any question about the potentially hazardous relations between God and Mammon.
The Culture of Commerce in England, 1660-1720 by Levy, Fritz / Renaissance Quarterly
Levant Company officials had become accustomed to drinking coffee--the coffee bean was called the 'Mahometan berry'--during their extended trips across the Ottoman Empire and wished to have coffee when back in London.
The rise and fall of English coffee houses by Suter, Keith / Contemporary Review
8) It was brought in by the Levant Company from the eastern Mediterranean, later augmented by imports from Italy.
Creating a Silk Industry in Seventeenth-Century England by PECK, LINDA LEVY / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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