La carta e il Mediterraneo: produzione, commercio, comunicazione, eds Livia Faggioni & Mauro Mussolin (Fabriano: Fondazione Fedrigoni Fabriano, 2022)
Full text available in Open Access here: La carta e il Mediterraneo It would have been hard to find a better framework for a volume developing from PIMo research on "paper in motion" than the book [...]
Giovanni Tarantino, ‘The Sky in Place of The Nile’: Climate, Religious Unrest and Scapegoating in Post-Tridentine Apulia,’ Environment and History, 28:3, (2022), 491-511.
This article investigates how extremely adverse climatic and weather conditions in early modern southern Italy played a part in disrupting social coexistence among groups and individuals of different confessions and beliefs in what until then [...]
Rereading Travellers to the East: Shaping Identities and Building the Nation in Post-unification Italy, ed. by Beatrice Falucci, Emanuele Giusti and Davide Trentacoste, (Florence University Press, Florence, 2022)
Rereading Travellers to the East aims to offer a new perspective on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism. The book is available in Open Access here: https://books.fupress.com/catalogue/rereading-travellers-to-the-east/11749 Rereading Travellers [...]
Konstantinos Giakoumis, “Integration, Inadaptation & Nostalgia: Human Stories from the Eighteenth-Century Epirotan/Albanian Diaspora in Wallachia and Moldavia.” Revista Istorică XXXII, 2021.
In this paper I looked into two totally different experiences of immigration from the local context of Gjirokastra to the Balkans and Italy. The first case, that of Hadji Leontios Chrestou, was studied by extracting [...]
Paper in Motion: Information and the Economy of Knowledge in the Early Modern Mediterranean, ed. by José Maria Pérez Fernández and Giovanni Tarantino with Matteo Calcagni, 2021
We are delighted to announce the publication of the catalogue and commentary for the upcoming PIMo exhibition on 'Paper in Motion: Information and the Economy of Knowledge in the Early Modern Mediterranean', set to open [...]
‘The Voyages of the Gagliana Grossa’ A Videodocumentay led by Prof Irena Radić Rossi
https://youtu.be/3WxVEDzR120 Setting forth from the islet of Gnalić, the shipwreck site of the Venetian merchantman sunk in 1583, the story encompasses all of Renaissance Europe, the eastern Mediterranean and even Peru; touches upon the [...]
Chiara Maria Mauro, ‘Nuestro criterio había de ser mucho más beneficioso para la ciencia: Vives Escudero’s contribution to Phoenicio-Punic archaeology in the contemporary cultural context’, Lucentum, 2021.
Chiara Maria Mauro, 'Nuestro criterio había de ser mucho más beneficioso para la ciencia: Vives Escudero’s contribution to Phoenicio-Punic archaeology in the contemporary cultural context', Lucentum, 2021. The article can be read in full here: [...]
The Habsburg Mediterranean, 1500-1800, edited by Stefan Hass and Dorothea McEwan, (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 2021)
This volume presents the Mediterranean as a crucial part of the social and cultural fabric of the early modern Habsburg world. The sea was a stage on which Habsburg history was made and unmade. The [...]
Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination, edited by Giovanni Tarantino and Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, (Leiden: Brill, 2021)
The focus of Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination is the (mostly Western) understanding, representation and self-critical appropriation of the "religious other" between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Mutually constitutive processes [...]
Giancarlo Casale, Nükhet Varlik and Tunahan Durmaz, ‘Ottoman experiences of epidemics’, Experiencing Epidemics Podcast Series, Episode 7.
What do the travelogue of an eighteenth-century Ottoman ambassador and the reflections of a seventeenth-century dervish from Istanbul have in common? They both provide precious insights into Ottoman experiences of epidemics at home and abroad, [...]
Ann Thomson, ‘Volney’s Turkish plague’, Experiencing Epidemics Podcast Series, Episode 3.
Throughout history, fear of infectious disease was used to incite fear and hatred of ethnic, cultural, and religious ‘other’. In Episode 3, Gašper Jakovac is hosting Prof. Ann Thomson (EUI) to discuss the writings of [...]
‘Mobility and Displacement in and around the Mediterranean. A Historical Approach’, Cátia Antunes and Giedrė Blažytė (eds.), Special Issue, Ler Historia, 78, 2021.
This text offers an introduction to the special theme section on Mobility and Displacement in and around the Mediterranean: A Historical Approach, guest-edited by the authors. You can find the introduction to this Open Access [...]
Filomena Barros (†) y José Alberto Tavim, ‘Mobilities and Communities between North Africa and Portugal: Muslims and Jews in the Medieval and Early Modern Ages’, Ler Historia, 78, 2021.
This article reflects on the connections between geographical mobility and the constitution of a community in Portugal in the cases of Jews and Muslims in the Middle and Early Modern Ages. You can read this [...]
Hugo Martins, ‘Between Welfare and Vagrancy: Migrants, Refugees and Travellers between Hamburg and the Mediterranean in the Seventeenth Century’, Ler Historia, 78, 2021.
This article aims to understand how the philanthropic policies of Northern European Sephardic communities affected the lives of Jews in the Mediterranean basin and, conversely, how Jewish mobility to and from the Mediterranean impacted on [...]
David Do Paço, ‘Tempo, Scales and Circulations: The Lazarets in Eighteenth-Century Trieste’, Ler Historia, 78, 2021.
This article reinterprets the circulations between the Mediterranean and continental Europe by studying the lazarets in eighteenth-century Trieste and explaining how they entangled and connected complex and autonomous systems for circulating information, knowledge, people and [...]
Katrina O’Loughlin, ‘The Pathless Seas: Configuring Displacement in British Romanticism’, Ler Historia, 78, 2021.
This essay considers the philosophical project of hospitality and friendship in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) through the movements of Victor Frankenstein and his “Creature”, tracking their attempts to forge social and emotional bonds in the face [...]
Elizabeth Harding, “Connecting People, Trade, and Orders of Knowledge: Mediality and Intermediality of Early Modern Auction Catalogues,” in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), 150-167.
Elizabeth Harding, “Connecting People, Trade, and Orders of Knowledge: Mediality and Intermediality of Early Modern Auction Catalogues,” in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), 150-167.
Elizabeth Harding, "Connecting People, Trade, and Orders of Knowledge: Mediality and Intermediality of Early Modern Auction Catalogues," in "Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José [...]
Joëlle Weis, “The Genealogy of a Collection: The Augustean Catalogues in Wolfenbüttel,” in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), 135-149.
Joëlle Weis, "The Genealogy of a Collection: The Augustean Catalogues in Wolfenbüttel," in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), [...]
William Zammit, “Paper, Commerce, and the Circulation of News: A Case-Study from Early Modern Malta,” in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), 113-134.
William Zammit, "Paper, Commerce, and the Circulation of News: A Case-Study from Early Modern Malta," in "Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez [...]
José María Pérez Fernández, “Paper in Motion: Communication, Knowledge and Power: Case Studies for an Interdisciplinary Approach,” in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), 81-112.
José María Pérez Fernández, “Paper in Motion: Communication, Knowledge and Power: Case Studies for an Interdisciplinary Approach,” in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María Pérez Fernández, No.23, (2020), 81-112.
José María Pérez Fernández, "Paper in Motion: Communication, Knowledge and Power: Case Studies for an Interdisciplinary Approach," in “Approaches to the Paper Revolution,” A Special Issue of CromohsCyber: Review of Modern Historiography, (ed.) José María [...]