Newsletter December 2021
A Challenging but Productive Year Despite all the obstacles that 2020 has put in our way, our network has managed to [...]
Ida Caiazza, Love, Gender, and Migration across the Sea: The Myth of Hero and Leander (Turner, Rubens, Lioret, Ovid)
Wild dashed the Hellespont its straited surge, And on the raised spray appeared Leander’s fall. These were the last two lines [...]
Call for Papers, Objects in the Text and the Text on the Objects, WG1 Workshop, Lisbon, February 24-25th, 2021.
As part of our tangible cultural heritage, historic objects play an essential role in the construction of our social memory. Objects [...]
PIMo Newsletter November 2021
Another Bright Year Ahead for PIMo In September of this year the PIMo Cost Action held its Second Annual Management Committee [...]
Mattia Guidetti, Ottoman Flags Reused as Ex-votos in the Marca Anconitana
On 15 September 1684, blank cannon shots greeted the arrival of an Ottoman flag in Loreto (Ancona). The silk flag (now [...]
Nasser Rabbat, Where Europe Begins and Where It Ends?
It is said in the myths of the Greeks that the Phoenician Princess Europa was playing on the seacoast of her [...]
Lucas Burkart, Marco Polo on the Pearl River Delta: The Venetian Middle Ages and Italy’s Colony in China
Visitors to the Museo Correr in Venice expect venezianità – and are duly rewarded by the museum’s exhibits and style of [...]
Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Piety and Pawnbroking: Decorated Account Books.
The first Monti di Pietà or mounts of piety, public banks that provided solidaristic credit, date from the 1460s. It is [...]
Newsletter May 2021
PIMo wishes you a safe, restful and productive summer Dear colleagues, After what has been an incredibly challenging academic year for [...]
Giorgio Giacosa, Trade wars and counterfeiting in the Mediterranean: The zecchino of Venice and the imitations and counterfeits issued by the republic’s rivals in a ruthless trade war.
The Mediterranean has always been the seam between East and West, between different ethnic groups and civilizations often in bitter conflict [...]
Newsletter March 2021
PIMo Newsletter March 2021 Despite the ongoing complications arising from the public health crisis, the PIMo network has maintained a rich [...]
Stefan Hanß, Materializing the Early Modern Habsburg Mediterranean.
Exploring how the flows and counterflows of artefacts and materials shaped broader trans-Mediterranean affective spaces of shared interests and experiences, this [...]
Iain Chambers, Learning from the sea: migration and maritime archives.
The sea is an anarchic passage; it evades any borders, it cancels out any trace of appropriation, it contests the arché [...]
An Interview with Giancarlo Casale, Rosita D’Amora
An Interview with Giancarlo Casale, Rosita D’Amora Salento University, Lecce Giancarlo Casale is Chair of Early Modern Mediterranean History at [...]
Pandemics and Population Mobility in Early Modern Europe: Actors, Networks, and Ideas, Tallinn University, 16 March 2021, Call for Papers
WG2 Ideas in Motion Workshop on Pandemics and Population Mobility in Early Modern Europe: Actors, Networks, and Ideas, Tallinn University, 16 [...]